The digital art piece titled "Latent Weavings," designed by artist Raziyye Kuzu Atalay, blends Anatolia’s time-honored carpet and kilim motifs with artificial intelligence systems to present them to the viewer. 

Atalay stated that during her doctoral studies in the Art and Design Program at Yıldız Technical University (YTÜ), she trained an AI model using her own archive of Anatolian carpets and kilims.

The single-channel work, exhibited as part of the festival, consists of real-time moving images in 4K resolution at 60 frames per second, created using deep learning algorithms and a specially curated dataset. “Latent Knots,” which brings a 9,000-year-old tradition—passed down from generation to generation by the hands of anonymous women at their looms—into the digital realm, also serves as an initiative to establish an archive bringing together more than 700 works from 48 regions.

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