As part of a hand embroidery course, the first-year students learnt the exact process of this meditative manual work and created visual designs, which were then digitally converted into patterns for machine embroidery. They explored the theme of air and artificial intelligence and realised their ideas using neon threads to create abstract patterns on the waste material of sports kites. They explored the fact that air is filled with data, algorithms and invisible forces that shape our thoughts and reality, in addition to oxygen, and looked for parallels between humans, nature and technology. They came to the conclusion that the algorithms of artificial intelligence shape our world invisibly and constantly, just as the wind shapes kites, and questioned the safety of using new technologies, their advantages and disadvantages. The fabrics of discarded kites that once defied the force of the wind are reborn in a textile installation with bright colours, eclectically combining the tactile with the ethereal, often invisible influence of artificial intelligence and air.
The project AI-R (2025) is exhibited as part of the BIEN 2025 textile art biennial and can be seen in Jesenice at Pudlovka, Stara Sava until August 14, 2025.
The authors of the exhibited works are first-year undergraduate students of Textile and Fashion Design:
Malu Adžija, Andrej Alagjozovski, Evelin Bajc, Ema Barbič, Gaja Bassanese, Lucija Bučan, Ajda Cebe Podržaj, Nika Dermastja, Spasko Eftimov, Sinja Hudnik Zaviršek, Anika Katušić Kocbek, Vid Kovač, Lana Krajnc, Vita Kremžar, Onja Lajevec, Lucija Lozar, Jera Marn, Iza Mattersdorfer Milutinović, Nina Mežek, Angel Micevski, Darija Miljković, Tara Mišković, Manuela Mokotar, Ema Mujagić, Maria Naidenko, Tajra Paunović, Jerca Perne, Gal Pohar, Tisa Predalič, Dimitar Simovski, Rebeka Štefanič, Alin Toplak, Jure Kwame Yebuah Tiran and Janja Žibret
Mentors: doc. mag. Arijana Gadžijev, asist. Kristi Komel
Technical assistant: Nina Glavič
Photography: Bernarda Conič
Thanks to: Gorazd Majcen – Kajtar.si, Vili Breceljnik, Poliplet d.o.o.
Support: Evropska noč raziskovalcev 2024–2025 – Humanistika, to si ti!, funded by the European Union.
