Generative Rug # 04

Artist use artificial intelligence and machine learning to combine symbol and pattern recognition algorithms to detect the presence of historical ornaments in traditional middle eastern carpets. While in middle eastern area carpet weaving was primarily a dominating form of art, with the traditions and skills carefully passed over from one generation to another, through developing and improving methods of making and spreading crafted symbols. By approaching these representations of his nation’s cultural history, with the help of AI, we get a dialogue between the future and the past, dystopian and utopian.