How artist Yinka Ilori is utilizing AI to carry his imaginative and prescient to life

A musical playground

In Dreaming with Flamingos, my first digital interactive paintings, you play as a younger flamingo tasked to revive a park’s misplaced tune. Assist the elder flamingos bear in mind their misplaced knowledge — the life power that after fueled this musical playground — by fixing riddles inside the sport.

Every solved riddle reveals a dynamic generative soundtrack, impressed by West African devices. Your reward on the finish of every degree is 2 distinctive digital artworks impressed by two of my most liked Nigerian parables, co-created with Google know-how.

A collaboration with Google AI

With the Google Arts & Tradition Lab, we created an experimental 3D playground utilizing WebGL. The soundtrack, generated by Google DeepMind’s Lyria, is impressed by my Nigerian heritage. You may discover greater than 400 potential sound combos and curate your individual music by taking part in within the park. We additionally fine-tuned a Google AI picture technology mannequin skilled on my favorite designs to generate 38 collectible artworks in my signature daring and vibrant fashion. Full each ranges to earn your artworks and curate your individual soundtrack with musical surprises.

Storytelling, know-how and historical custom

Dreaming with Flamingos takes inspiration from a real-life bodily playground, Flamboyance of Flamingos, in London. After I was creating that area, native members of the aged neighborhood shared reminiscences of flamingos truly residing there. This sparked the thought to discover themes of reminiscence, neighborhood and pleasure within the digital realm.

I’ve all the time been drawn to the ability of storytelling. My Nigerian heritage, wealthy in folklore and vibrant traditions, fuels my creative imaginative and prescient. With Google’s superior AI instruments, I’m bringing this to life in an entire new approach — merging historical knowledge with trendy know-how.