CHELEBI - GENERATIVE CARPET SERIES

According to historic data and memo records of European researchers and travelers, Mediaeval Azerbaijan was one of the major carpet hubs of the Orient, and after the Islamic Golden age, most of the middle eastern carpet patterns and ornaments became popularized by the western countries.

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 Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran 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 our nation’s cultural history, with the help of AI, we get a dialogue between the future and the past, dystopian and utopian.

Orkhan Mammadov