In Woven Presence, Montréal-based artist Karoline Georges extends her sustained investigation into artificial intelligence, avatars, and mediated identity through AI-generated moving image. The project brings together brocade-inspired textile aesthetics and algorithmically produced video environments, creating figures that oscillate between portrait, pattern, and synthetic body.
Georges’ broader practice spans literature, sound, photography, video, and 3D modeling. Since her debut novel La Mue de l’hermaphrodite (2001), she has examined how emerging technologies reshape concepts of subjectivity, memory, and embodiment. In recent years, her work has increasingly engaged artificial intelligence not as a novelty, but as a perceptual framework.
In Woven Presence, surface operates as both material reference and computational field. Textile logic—repeat, weave, ornament—intersects with generative image systems that mutate texture and form over time. Figures appear embedded within, or produced by, their own patterned environments. The distinction between fabric, skin, and simulation becomes visually unstable.
The project foregrounds mediation. Machine vision reorganizes the sensible world: tactility is rendered as pixel density; ornament becomes data structure; portraiture shifts toward probabilistic construction. The result is a work that situates intelligent systems within longer histories of image-making and material culture.
Woven Presence contributes to ongoing conversations in digital art and creative technology about authorship, hybridity, and the evolving relationship between algorithmic systems and embodied perception.
Project Info
Artist: Karoline Georges
Year: 2023
Image Credit: Courtesy of the artist
