This generative AI-based audiovisual work explores fashion as a living, dynamic experience—one that unfolds through movement and speculative imagination. At its core lies silk, a material historically associated with fluidity, elegance, and transformation. Here, silk becomes both medium and metaphor: a visual thread that weaves through the piece, embodying the ephemeral and expressive nature of fashion in motion.

The work uses artificial intelligence not merely as a tool, but as a co-creator capable of reinterpreting collective visual memory. By training on shared data—archives of style, textile patterns, gestures, cultural references—it generates speculative visuals that reimagine the body and garment as constantly shifting, performative entities. Fashion, in this space, transcends its physical form to become a choreography of data, light, and dreamlike texture.

Through algorithmic imagination, the piece reveals garments that could never exist in the real world: silk flowing against impossible physics, silhouettes that dissolve and reform, movements that respond to invisible forces. These digital apparitions suggest new ways of thinking about presence, identity, and desire in a post-material landscape.

More than a visual spectacle, this work is an invitation to reflect: What does it mean to dress in a space of code and possibility? What stories emerge when fashion becomes fluid, shared, and no longer bound by cloth or time? Through silk as a speculative surface, the piece opens a space where fashion becomes not just wearable, but dreamable.



Vanishing Acts: AI, Performative Knowledge & Sustainable Memory

12th Annual SPA Conference
University of Malta (Valetta Campus) - 25, 26, 27, 28 March 2026
L-Università ta' Malta - School of Performming Arts - Faculty of Information & Communication Technology (Department of Artificial Intelligence)