This weekend, the Southbank Centre in London becomes a playground for creative technologies during the inaugural Creative Intelligence weekend, curated by PACT, Planetary Art Culture Technology.
Emerging computational tools are fundamentally reshaping how art is made and experienced. For a public art institution and Europe’s largest art centre celebrating its 75th anniversary, this shift poses important questions about how to work with artists to innovate with technology whilst celebrating human creative agency.
It is this inquiry that has informed the collaboration between Southbank Centre and Google Arts & Culture to date, from celebrating Hayward Gallery at 50 and digitising Art by Post to hosting four interactive experiments from the Arts & Culture Lab in the public foyers this weekend.
A Public Playground for the Imagination
In the Royal Festival Hall’s Clore Ballroom and Exploration Bazaar, visitors can experience Google Arts & Culture interactive experiments that harness AI
- Dreaming with Flamingos by Yinka Ilori: Weaves West African folklore with Google DeepMind’s advanced AI music generation tool, Lyria, in an interactive riddle quest to restore a park’s lost wisdom