Interactive Art at the Youth Festival
World Youth Festival (Sochi)
Dates: March 1-7
Customer: VK
Agency: Promofabrika
The goal of the project was to create an interactive experience for visitors to the World Youth Festival in Sochi. We aimed to give each guest the opportunity to become an artist for a couple of minutes using innovative generative neural network technology. The main idea was to make creativity accessible and attractive to everyone by creating unique and interesting visual works and demonstrating them in real time.
A cube with a QR code was installed on the event site. Visitors, scanning the QR code, were transferred to a virtual platform on their mobile devices. Here they could experiment with creating images, choosing a specific style and adding text prompts. Our generative neural network created unique visual works that were instantly displayed on the cube. In addition, the cube stored and displayed the nine most recently created images. All created images were automatically printed as postcards, which could later be mailed to your friends :)
Technical implementation:
Our neural network was deployed on a dedicated server with graphics accelerators, providing high processing speed and image quality. The server interacted with users' mobile devices, receiving data for processing. After generating a unique image, the neural network sent it to the cube. The cube displayed the last nine created images, as well as videos and QR codes, creating an interesting and diverse visual space. The technology stack included the use of generative neural networks, mobile applications for user interaction, and high-performance servers for data processing and visualization of results.