Conversations with AI (II)
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In Conversations with AI (2024), suzani, a traditional handmade embroidery form in Central Asia, plays an important part in an alternative mythmaking experiment brought to life through collaboration with a specially trained AI image generator. By analysing and reimagining suzani patterns – a visual language encoding women's unwritten stories for centuries – the installation exposes biases embedded in technological structures, often oblivious to the nuances of Central Asian culture and the broader Global South. It prompts contemplation of collective memory, questioning how the development of AI technologies has reshaped the process of constructing shared memories in the context of globalisation. Do we still actively remember, or has technology taken on the role of remembering for us? Part of a larger installation (suzani embroidery on dyed silk cotton blend, video, steel, 215 x 75 x 70 cm) Sound design by Fanis Sakellariou
