Semantic Carpet is an AI-generated Jacquard tapestry created from an image from a Generative Adversarial Network model of over 1000 Persian, Afghan, Turkish, and Armenian carpets. This work plays off contemporary artists in the region like Faig Ahmed who are reflecting on formal interventions on the carpet-form. Semantic Carpet relates to the artist in regards to iit being an intersection between the artist’s sensibilities as an emerging genres artist and the surrounding culture of the MENA region. In addition, the work has a political dimension as it encodes aspects of the Persian carpet, which is Banned in the USA. However, by transmitting information and having it fabricated in situ uses the Internet to circumvent geopolitical elements.
