Created 2025
Medium: Audiovisual AI
Medium: Audiovisual AI
- Created in collaboration with ÚĽUV, an institution focused on
preserving and developing Slovakia’s living cultural heritage, the project examines how tradition can be reimagined within a contemporary, open, and inclusive context. Rather than presenting folk culture as something fixed, nostalgic, or tied to nationalist narratives, it approaches tradition as a living and evolving space that allows for experimentation and new interpretations.
Collaborator: ÚĽUV
- The audiovisual piece draws on traditional Slovak visual elements such as embroidery motifs and Čičmany-inspired geometry and places them in dialogue with digital technologies. AI-generated visuals created through Stream Diffusion are further developed in TouchDesigner, where real-time audio-reactive processes allow the ornaments to move, pulse, and transform. Through this process, traditional forms become dynamic, responsive, and grounded in the present.
① Final Audiovisual Piece
② Behind the Process
Generative traditional ceramics
A unique Slovak wire craft
Generative wood carving
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The soundtrack is built around the electro-folk compilation Liptov, released by the Prague-based community project Punctum.
The album brings together contemporary Czech and Slovak electronic producers who reinterpret traditional folk songs from the Liptov region, originally documented in the 1982 collection Liptov - A panorama of Folk Songs and Music Culture.
The album brings together contemporary Czech and Slovak electronic producers who reinterpret traditional folk songs from the Liptov region, originally documented in the 1982 collection Liptov - A panorama of Folk Songs and Music Culture.
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Recognition and Award
- This work received 2nd place in competition
- in the Audio/Video category.
- More information can be found HERE.
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Further Development of the Project
- Elements developed in this project—specifically the use of Stream Diffusion and the fusion of AI-generated patterns with traditional embroidery motifs—were later applied in an illustration created for PATVAR magazine. The illustrated poem is available in the online issue HERE.