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An online residency with LAS Art Foundation and Google Arts & Culture produced two new artworks by Xin Liu and Eunjo Lee. Their projects use Google AI tools to explore collective intelligence, Buddhist philosophy, psychology and digital environments.
Artists Xin Liu and Eunjo Lee have created two new works exploring philosophy, science and artificial intelligence through an online residency run by LAS Art Foundation in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture Lab. Announced September 29, the projects use Google AI tools to examine ideas including collective intelligence and the relationship between people and their digital surroundings.
Liu’s artwork, “nom nom”, draws on research into artificial life and emergent computation by Google researchers Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Alexander Mordvintsev. The project uses the concept of Neural Cellular Automata, models in which many small units interact and can form, compete and dissolve. Liu frames the result as an ecology of fragments rather than a single intelligence directing the whole.
Lee’s work, “In Your Eyes, Before My Own”, combines hand-drawn imagery, 3D assets, choreography and Korean Hangul phonetics. According to Google’s account, Lee used Nano Banana and Veo to turn sketches into 3D assets, then layered motion-captured choreography onto characters and mapped phonetics across an environment shaped by the landscape’s geometry.
The residency focused on digital world building and simulations of living systems. Google says Liu and Lee were selected for their technical skill and artistic imagination. The announcement describes the works and their methods, but does not provide details about public exhibition dates, access arrangements or how audiences can experience them beyond the material accompanying the announcement.
AI as Artistic Material
The projects present AI as a tool for making and thinking, rather than offering evidence about what AI systems understand. Liu’s work turns a computational model of many interacting units into an artistic way to consider how collective behavior can emerge. Lee’s combines software-assisted image creation with language, movement and philosophical ideas about interconnectedness.
That distinction matters as AI-generated images and video become more common. These works make the artists’ choices and concepts part of the story: the systems support a creative process, while Liu and Lee determine the questions and forms the projects pursue. The announcement does not assess the tools’ broader effects or establish that the artworks resolve scientific or philosophical questions.
Inside the Online Residency
The residency was organized by LAS Art Foundation with Google Arts & Culture Lab. Its stated focus was supporting artists working with digital environments and simulations of living systems. Google’s September 29 report presents Liu’s and Lee’s projects as outcomes of that program, rather than as a study or product launch.
The source connects Liu’s approach to research on artificial life and emergent computation, including work by Google researchers Agüera y Arcas and Mordvintsev. Lee describes her process as “techno-alchemy,” linking ancient philosophy, linguistics and modern psychology. Her reference to Indra’s net, a Buddhist image of entities reflecting one another in a vast web, informs how she relates neural networks to interconnection. These are the artists’ conceptual frames as reported by Google.
““I want to explore an image of intelligence distributed across millions of tiny neural networks that react only to their surroundings — not as a singular mind above the world, but as a living ecology of fragments.””
— Xin Liu, artist
Details on Public Access
Google’s announcement does not say when or where the works will be exhibited, whether they will be available online, or whether the residency will commission further projects. It also provides no audience figures, independent evaluation or technical detail about the AI systems beyond naming tools and describing parts of each process. The announcement’s descriptions of the works’ meaning are attributed to the artists and Google; they are not presented as scientific findings.
Exhibition Plans Remain Unspecified
The next practical detail for audiences is how to view the artworks. Google’s report includes accompanying video material for Liu’s project and descriptions of both works, but gives no schedule for an exhibition or further release. LAS Art Foundation and Google Arts & Culture have not, in the source material provided, set out additional milestones for the residency.
Key Questions
Who made the two artworks?
Xin Liu made “nom nom,” and Eunjo Lee made “In Your Eyes, Before My Own.” Both works were created through an online residency with LAS Art Foundation and Google Arts & Culture Lab.
What is “nom nom” about?
Liu’s work explores collective intelligence through the idea of many small neural units interacting. It draws on Neural Cellular Automata and research into artificial life and emergent computation.
Which AI tools did Lee use?
Google says Lee used Nano Banana and Veo to create 3D assets from hand-drawn sketches. She also used motion-captured choreography and Korean Hangul phonetics in the project.
When can the public see the works?
The announcement does not give exhibition dates or access details. It describes the projects and includes video material for Liu’s work, but does not specify a public release schedule.
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