Exploring Creative Intelligence with London’s Southbank Centre

Exploring Creative Intelligence with London’s Southbank Centre Sep 10, 2026 | x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link A new weekend explores how artists, digital innovation and AI are reshaping the world we live in. Mark Ball Artistic Director, Southbank Centre Freya Salway Head of Google Arts & Culture Lab Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link 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 Unlock Yinka Ilori’s musical playground Splash Canvas by David Li: Gemini and fluid dynamics power squishy sea creatures who act as your paintbrushes and real-time art critics Paint on a squishy, fluid canvas guided by AI sea creatures Learn Everything : Uses Gemini to turn photos of everyday objects into visual metaphors for understanding complex topics. Turn everyday objects into instant science lessons Say What You See : A puzzle game that sharpens prompt literacy by reverse-engineering AI imagery. Learn the art of prompting Visionary voices across the weekend The wider weekend brings together leading artists whose practices explore art and code — including several Google Arts & Culture has collaborated with over many years: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg : The artist presents her algorithmic garden work Pollinator Pathmaker on the Riverside Terrace. The work uses an algorithmic tool to design living gardens for pollinating insects rather than human taste, transforming art into a platform for non-human agency. Google Arts & Culture was an early supporter of the work. Xin Liu : Ahead of her upcoming residency with Berlin's LAS Art Foundation and Google Arts & Culture, artist Xin Liu explores art, science, and ecology through a performance lecture. Lex Fefegha : Google Arts & Culture Lab Artist in Residence, Lex brings Future Inventions to Southbank Centre with Peckham Digital for workshops exploring creative tech through an Afrocentric lens. Experience the weekend from Friday 11 September to Sunday 13 September 2026 at the Southbank Centre, or explore the experiments online via Google Arts & Culture . Posted in: Related stories Arts & Culture Take an interactive journey through America’s national parks By Jason Gibson & Amit Sood Arts & Culture Step into the world of tango on Google Arts & Culture By Juan Vallejo Arts & Culture Explore The Met in new ways with generative AI By Max Hollein & Amit Sood AI The latest AI news we announced in June 2026 By News from Google Team Arts & Culture Explore Colonial Williamsburg with Google Arts & Culture By Kent Walker & Carly Fiorina Arts & Culture Powering the world’s first AI arts museum By Mira Lane — Company newsroom — sourced from Google. Matter furnished by the company. Not a Notice Nearby paid placement. This page reprints matter furnished by the company from its official newsroom. Notice Nearby did not write this release. Read the original: https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/arts-culture/exploring-creative-intelligence-with-londons-southbank-centre