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Nano Banana and Veo Used in a Google Art Residency

Google Arts and Culture published two new artworks made during an Online Artist Residency it ran with LAS Art Foundation. The post says the residency set out to support artists in exploring digital world building and the simulation of living systems, and that the two artists were selected for their exceptional technical skill and artistic imagination.

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• "Artists Xin Liu and Eunjo Lee used Google AI tools to create 'nom nom' (Xin Liu) and 'In Your Eyes, Before My Own' (Eunjo Lee), two artworks exploring frontier AI research." Supports the hook claim that Google published two new artworks made with its AI tools.(Google (blog.google), first party post titled "Experience two artists' perspectives on philosophy, science, and AI", dated 2026.09.29, by Freya Salway, Head of the Lab, Google Arts & Culture. Live URL fetched 2026-09-29 and verified identical to the alert time snapshot captured 2026-09-29T16:02:14.340Z.)
• "That's the question two artists sought to answer during the Online Artist Residency with LAS Art Foundation in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture." Supports the hook claim that both works came from an online residency, and scene one's claim that an art foundation ran the residency with Google Arts and Culture.(Google (blog.google), first party post titled "Experience two artists' perspectives on philosophy, science, and AI", dated 2026.09.29, by Freya Salway, Head of the Lab, Google Arts & Culture. Live URL fetched 2026-09-29 and verified identical to the alert time snapshot captured 2026-09-29T16:02:14.340Z.)
• "The residency set out to support artists in exploring digital world building and the simulation of living systems." Supports scene one's claim that the aim was digital world building and simulated living systems.(Google (blog.google), first party post titled "Experience two artists' perspectives on philosophy, science, and AI", dated 2026.09.29, by Freya Salway, Head of the Lab, Google Arts & Culture. Live URL fetched 2026-09-29 and verified identical to the alert time snapshot captured 2026-09-29T16:02:14.340Z.)
• "with the two artists selected for their exceptional technical skill and artistic imagination." Supports scene two's claim that two artists were selected for technical skill and artistic imagination.(Google (blog.google), first party post titled "Experience two artists' perspectives on philosophy, science, and AI", dated 2026.09.29, by Freya Salway, Head of the Lab, Google Arts & Culture. Live URL fetched 2026-09-29 and verified identical to the alert time snapshot captured 2026-09-29T16:02:14.340Z.)
• "In 'nom nom,' Xin explores how collective intelligence naturally arises when millions of small particles interact... the concept of Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs), models where millions of particles form, compete, and dissolve into a living ecology." Supports scene three's claim that one artwork simulates intelligence emerging from millions of interacting particles.(Google (blog.google), first party post titled "Experience two artists' perspectives on philosophy, science, and AI", dated 2026.09.29, by Freya Salway, Head of the Lab, Google Arts & Culture. Live URL fetched 2026-09-29 and verified identical to the alert time snapshot captured 2026-09-29T16:02:14.340Z.)
• "For this project, Eunjo converted hand-drawn sketches into 3D assets using Nano Banana and Veo." Supports scene three's claim that the other artist built digital objects from hand drawn sketches using Nano Banana and Veo.(Google (blog.google), first party post titled "Experience two artists' perspectives on philosophy, science, and AI", dated 2026.09.29, by Freya Salway, Head of the Lab, Google Arts & Culture. Live URL fetched 2026-09-29 and verified identical to the alert time snapshot captured 2026-09-29T16:02:14.340Z.)
• "Experience 'nom nom' and 'In Your Eyes, Before My Own' on Google Arts & Culture and las-art.foundation today." Confirms both works are viewable online now on Google Arts and Culture and on the foundation's own site, which is the only availability statement in the post.(Google (blog.google), first party post titled "Experience two artists' perspectives on philosophy, science, and AI", dated 2026.09.29, by Freya Salway, Head of the Lab, Google Arts & Culture. Live URL fetched 2026-09-29 and verified identical to the alert time snapshot captured 2026-09-29T16:02:14.340Z.)
• Verified absence: the post contains no new model, no new product, no pricing, no availability or access change to the AI tools named in it, no benchmark or evaluation result, no user or view counts, no named commercial partner beyond LAS Art Foundation, and no date for anything further. It is an arts and culture outreach post describing two completed commissions, not a product launch. It also never states that viewing the works costs anything or is limited in time. Corroboration: the YouTube transcript pull returned zero of five transcripts, so no video corroboration existed, and timeline-probes.json held only unrelated noise. Every narration claim in this script therefore traces to this single first party page.(Google (blog.google), first party post titled "Experience two artists' perspectives on philosophy, science, and AI", dated 2026.09.29, by Freya Salway, Head of the Lab, Google Arts & Culture. Live URL fetched 2026-09-29 and verified identical to the alert time snapshot captured 2026-09-29T16:02:14.340Z.)