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ArtLens AI

Built at Gemini 3 NYC Hackathon · Feb 28, 2026 · New York, NY

Demo video · www.loom.com/…

Art is presented as static objects with text-heavy placards and audio guides, while the real reasons people care: conflict, emotion, symbolism, and the artist’s lived drama, are compressed into a few lines of static text. Meanwhile, millions of letters, diaries, and historical records remain “data graveyards,” effectively locked away from the public. ArtLens AI redefines how people experience and feel art. We’ve built a new way to consume artwork: point your phone at any piece and it instantly becomes a short, cinematic micro-documentary that brings the hidden story behind the canvas to life in a format native to a digital generation. We redefine the boundary between audience and creator by turning the act of looking at art into the start of an interactive story. Under the hood, we capture a photo and use Google AI tools for multimodal understanding and generation and narration and visuals into a finished film, centered on the original artwork.

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