The “Qatar Art Pulse” initiative, launched by the Qatar Media City in cooperation with Google Cloud, revealed a pioneering artistic work that was co-created by the people of the country, in celebration of the National Day of the State of Qatar 2024. More than 5.4 million people were reached and 68,000 interactions from all over the world. The country in order to create this wonderful masterpiece, which embodied the unity, creativity and aspirations of the nation.
The masterpiece of generative art created using artificial intelligence techniques, with more than 15,000 entries expressing the voices, feelings and aspirations of the community, was unveiled during the Qatar National Day 2024 celebrations.
The mechanism of the artistic work relied on capturing answers to contemplative, evocative questions, which were shared on the social media accounts of Qatar Media City, in addition to public conversations, circulated on social media, all of which were processed by Google Cloud artificial intelligence technologies, which included the Vertex AI platform, Gemini models, And the Big Query data warehouse, turning it into an amazing visual narrative masterpiece, witnessed in distinguished locations in Qatar, where it was displayed at the “M7” Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Msheireb Downtown Doha, West Walk Al Waab, and Abraj. Al Jaber in Lusail, and displayed it on the social media accounts of Qatar Media City.
Engineer Jassim Mohammed Al Khouri, CEO of Media City – Qatar, said: “The Qatar Art Pulse event was a wonderful historical journey that adopted modern technologies to celebrate the unity, creativity and pride of our nation, and emphasized Media City Qatar’s leadership in the field of innovation, and our ability to unite all segments of society.” Through creativity and technology, in celebration of the National Day of the State of Qatar this year. This amazing work of art shed light on our firm commitment to promoting Qatar National Vision 2030, and our success in creating a unique blend, combining innovation and cultural heritage, in an unprecedented celebration of our national identity, which the world is witnessing for the first time ever.”
For his part, Ghassan Costa, Regional General Manager at Google Cloud, said: “The Qatar Art Pulse initiative comes to shed light on the success of Google Cloud technologies in uniting communities, in order to achieve something exceptional. Through this project, our cooperation with Qatar Media City supported the mobilization of community voices and transformed them into a collaborative masterpiece. We are proud to support this unique initiative, which highlighted the ability of advanced technologies to celebrate innovation and cultural heritage, and its success in achieving a world record.”
