Google Arts & Culture Launches Esther Mahlangu Online Retrospective
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Google Arts & Culture has published the first online retrospective of South African artist Dr. Esther Mahlangu, released to mark her 91st birthday. The exhibition brings together more than 45 curated stories and an archive of her art, life and legacy, curated with the British Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa and the Serpentine. Google says its team used AI to visually recreate undocumented memories from before 1980, because archives held nothing from that period. The team generated still images and then used Veo to turn them into videos. These AI-recreated memories are presented as part of the retrospective; Google describes them as recreations, not as archival records.
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Google Arts & Culture has published the first online retrospective of South African artist Dr. Esther Mahlangu, timed to her 91st birthday, with more than 45 curated stories and a rich archive of her art, life and legacy. Because archives held nothing from before 1980, the team used AI to visually recreate her undocumented memories, generating still images and then using Veo to turn them into videos. The exhibition was curated with institutions including the British Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa and Serpentine.
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