Woven memory
Dense carpets hold the layered structure of tradition and collective memory.
Istanbul · International
Digital ArtistVisual Director
Aisha
Hajiyeva
Moving images, stage worlds and immersive experiences between art, technology and performance.
Selected works
2022—2026
01 — Selected works
Image as a living space.
A selection of moving-image, performance and spatial works across cultural institutions and independent commissions.
01
02Includes
- Edusa
- Gilgameş
- Kürk Mantolu Madonna
- Tarantula
- REDD
03Includes
- Mediterranean Odyssey
04Includes
- Time
- Cinematic Future of AI in Azerbaijan — IDAF’24
- Treasure | Hazine
- Sezen Aksu Digital Art Exhibition
05Includes
- The Crack
- The Motherland
Showreel · 2026
Selected Works
2022—2026
Moving images across stages, screens and spatial environments.
A concise selection of digital art, video art and moving-image works created for opera, theatre, concerts, exhibitions and public-facing cultural projects.
Practice
Digital Art · Video Art
Contexts
Stage · Exhibition · Public Media
Scope
Istanbul · International
Years
2022—2026
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01Stage WorldsDigital Art for the stage05 projects
02Immersive Experience ExhibitionsSpatial image · Immersive environments01 projects
03Installation & Public Media ArtFestival · Museum · Public space04 projects
04AI Short Films & Video ArtExperimental moving image02 projects
02 / Spatial image
Immersive Experience
Exhibitions
Site-responsive moving images in which projection, architecture and spectatorship form a single environment.
03 / Public encounters
Installation &
Public Media Art
Moving-image works developed for festivals, museums, cultural institutions and open public space.
04 / Moving image
AI Short Films &
Video Art
Experimental films shaped through artificial intelligence, psychological narrative and an authored moving-image language.
02Cinematic Future of AI in AzerbaijanAI Moving-Image Installation · IDAF’24
Installation & Public Media Art · IDAF'24
Cinematic Future of AI
in Azerbaijan
What happens when artificial intelligence re-enters the visual memory of Azerbaijani cinema?
Presented at Istanbul Digital Art Festival 2024 at Atatürk Cultural Center, the series reimagines scenes from ten Azerbaijani films through AI-assisted moving image. Rather than treating cinema history as a fixed archive, the work tests how generative systems read Caucasian, Azerbaijani and Turkish cultures—moving familiar black-and-white images into an unstable, vivid present. It asks how these films might be shaped if produced today, and what is transformed, preserved or misread when cultural memory passes through a machine.
Role
Concept · AI Visual Direction
Format
AI-assisted moving-image installation
Venue
Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul
Display
5 × 4 m LED screen · IDAF'24
Selected views from the 5 × 4 metre LED presentation at AKM
Historic cinema translated into a speculative image
From cinematic memory into a changing digital present
Archive, screen and viewer held in one frame
International presentation · Milano 2024
Artificial Dreams
Milano Digital Week
For Artificial Dreams at Milano Digital Week, Cinematic Future of AI in Azerbaijan was presented in an updated edition, extending the project beyond its Istanbul premiere at the fourth Istanbul Digital Art Festival. The work brings artificial intelligence into dialogue with Azerbaijani cinema and cultural memory, imagining how technology might reshape the visual language through which this heritage reaches an international audience.
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Artificial Dreams · Milano Digital Week
Azerbaijani cultural memory in a new exhibition context
From Istanbul to an international audience in Milan
Source cinema / 1945—1983
Ten films become a cultural dataset—not to replace the original images, but to question how AI interprets them.
- 01 Arşın Mal Alan
- 02 Görüş
- 03 Bəxtiyar
- 04 O Olmasın Bu Olsun
- 05 Qızmar Günəş Altında
- 06 Ögey Ana
- 07 Uşaqlığın Son Gecəsi
- 08 Dədə Qorqud
- 09 Qaynana
- 10 Papaq
04Sezen Aksu Digital Art ExhibitionDigital Art Exhibition · 3D Moving Image
Installation & Public Media Art · 2022
Sezen Aksu
Digital Art Exhibition
Jewellery as memory, transformed into a moving digital landscape.
A 3D moving-image work built from sculpted jewellery forms and presented as part of a physical digital-art exhibition. The objects float inside a reflective, dreamlike seascape, moving between portrait, archive and surreal display.
Role
3D Artist · Motion Design
Format
Digital exhibition · Moving image
Tools
Cinema 4D · Redshift
Year
2022
Jewellery studies in a reflective digital seascape
Moving image presented within the physical display
Process / Object studies
01Mediterranean OdysseyImmersive Exhibition · 3D Art
Immersive Experience Exhibitions · 2023
Mediterranean Odyssey
Immersive Aquarium Experience
A descent into the Mediterranean, where marine life becomes spatial image.
Presented at X Media Art Museum by DasDas, this five-artist group exhibition invites audiences into the depths of the Mediterranean. Across panoramic projection surfaces, anemone shrimp, octopus, starfish, spotted stingray, sea urchin and other marine species form an evolving underwater environment. The work also turns attention toward marine pollution and threatened ecosystems. My contribution focused on 3D modelling for the immersive image system.
Role
3D Modeling
Format
Five-artist group exhibition
Venue
X Media Art Museum by DasDas
Year
2023
Selected passage from the panoramic aquarium experience
The aquarium world moving across architectural surfaces
Exhibition title and five-artist group credits
Process / Anemone shrimp study
Surface and silhouette study
Multi-view articulation study
Artists
Volkan Çetin · Aisha Hajiyeva · Bilge Özkan · İrem Aluş · Seçil Kurtuluş
Sound design
Senem Yıldırım
01TimeDigital Audio-Visual Installation · Public Media Art
Installation & Public Media Art · 2025
Time
Digital Audio-Visual Installation
Ornament as a code of historical memory, unfolding inside the architecture of Icherisheher.
Presented at the International Carpet Festival in Icherisheher, Baku, Time is an open-air LED installation created for two intertwined heritage milestones: the 25th anniversary of Icherisheher's inclusion on UNESCO's World Heritage List and the 15th anniversary of Azerbaijani carpet art on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The work transforms carpet ornaments, calligraphic gestures and medieval Baku architecture into a continuous audiovisual passage—treating decorative and applied arts not as surface, but as a living archive carried across generations.
Role
Digital Artist · Art Direction
Format
Open-air LED installation
Venue
Icherisheher, Baku
Dates
May 2–4, 2025
Traditional ornamental motifs move through a contemporary public-media architecture.
Digital ornament in dialogue with medieval Baku
A screen architecture designed to be entered
Light, pattern and audience become one composition
International Carpet Festival · Icherisheher
03Treasure | HazineVideo Art · Group Exhibition
Installation & Public Media Art · 2025
Treasure | Hazine
Video Art
A dreamlike passage through ornament, memory and the symbolic language of inheritance.
Presented in a group exhibition during the Türkiye Kültür Yolu Festivali, Treasure layers dense carpets, luminous textiles, orchids and horned animal figures into a shifting audiovisual tableau. Ram heads and horns evoke ancestral belief systems; rare flowers and gold embellishment point toward desire, value and the search for identity. Each frame opens like a threshold, proposing cultural memory not as something fixed, but as a living treasure to be rediscovered and claimed.
Role
Digital Artist
Format
Video art · 1'05"
Context
Group exhibition
Year
2025
A short view of Treasure presented within the Türkiye Kültür Yolu Festivali group exhibition.
Ancestral codes
Ram heads and horns recall ancient belief systems and the search for identity.
Living treasure
Orchids, gold and opening frames transform inheritance into a sensorial image.
01The CrackAI Experimental Short Film
AI Short Films & Video Art · 2026
The Crack
AI Experimental Short Film
A quiet psychological rupture unfolds within a single room.
A woman wakes in a room that feels at once familiar and estranged. As ordinary gestures fracture into micro-delays, repetitions and interruptions, her hands appear older than her own presence. The house becomes a temporal container of inherited memory, where past, present and future collide in small physical displacements. The film explores temporal entrapment, inherited emotional architectures and the silent persistence of past lives within the present self. Identity is not destroyed by the spreading cracks—it is exposed.
Role
Written & directed by Aisha Hajiyeva
Format
AI experimental short film
Duration / Year
3'48" · 2026
Production
AI-generated visuals & original music
A temporal and psychological fracture unfolding within a single room
Identity exposed through temporal displacement
AI FilmFest Serbia · 2026
Nothing resolves.
Nothing fully collapses.
The crack remains.
Production note
All visual elements and original music in the film were produced using artificial intelligence.
02The MotherlandAI Short Film · Video Art
AI Short Films & Video Art · 2025—26
The Motherland
AI Short Film
A speculative portrait of homeland, memory and belonging.
An AI-assisted short film and video-art experiment that approaches the motherland as both physical geography and inherited memory. Reconstructed landscapes, symbolic figures and dreamlike temporal shifts frame belonging as an emotional archive shaped by departure, return, loss and remembrance. The film has been presented at international festivals and continues its exhibition journey.
Role
Concept · Visual Direction
Format
AI short film · Video art
Context
International festivals
Status
Ongoing festival circuit
An AI-assisted meditation on homeland, inherited memory and the unstable image of belonging.
Stage Worlds · Selected productions
Digital art
for the stage
Opera, music theatre, theatre and live concert works developed as complete visual systems — from research and reference imagery to compositing, animation and the final stage-ready moving image.
05REDDVideo Art for Live Concerts
Stage Worlds / 05
REDD ×
Live Concerts
An adaptable video-art system built to travel with the band.
Created initially for REDD's symphonic concert at Turkcell Vadi and subsequently adapted for the band's concerts beyond the orchestral format, the work functions as a flexible video-art system shaped by the emotional and lyrical world of the songs. “Aşk, Virüs” has become its most frequently used visual sequence, combining distressed typography, fragmented bodies and archival graphic textures.
Work
Aşk, Virüs
Live contexts
Orchestral · Band concerts
Role
Video Artist · Visual Direction
Format / Years
Adaptable concert video art · 2023—present
“Aşk, Virüs” · Live concert adaptation
Portrait fragments translated into a monumental backdrop
Lyrics and narrative as rhythmic image
Time, repetition and emotional rupture
04TarantulaVideo Art for a Theatre Production
Stage Worlds / 04
Tarantula
Video Art for a Theatre Production
Drawing becomes atmosphere, memory and fracture.
For the theatre production Tarantula, I developed a hand-drawn video-art language that travels across the fragmented architecture of the stage. Birds, skeletal bodies and glitching line structures move between backdrop, set and performer, turning projection into a psychological extension of the character.
Role
Video Artist · Visual Design
Format
Theatre production · Multi-surface projection
Visual language
Hand-drawn animation · Glitch
Year
2026
Hand-drawn structures in a looping glitch field
Image distributed across the fragmented set
Movement crossing performer, object and backdrop
Projection as an extension of inner state
02GilgameşDigital Art for Opera
Stage Worlds / 02
Gilgameş
Digital Art for Opera
A mythic world unfolding across the architecture of the stage.
For Ahmed Adnan Saygun's Gilgameş, presented in its world premiere by Istanbul State Opera and Ballet, I developed a moving-image world that expands the opera's scale through forest, ritual, fire, celestial form and monumental anatomy. The digital-art system shifts with the dramatic arc, moving between earthly, sacred and cosmic space.
Role
Digital Artist · Visual Direction
Production
Istanbul State Opera and Ballet
Work
Ahmed Adnan Saygun · Gilgameş
Venue / Year
AKM · World Premiere · 2025
Digital-art worlds developed for the opera stage
Image, fabric and architecture forming one environment
Projection intensifying costume, scale and collective form
A living landscape spanning the full proscenium
The projected body completing the live figure
01EdusaDigital Art for Opera
Stage Worlds / 01
Edusa
Digital Art for Opera
Archaeological memory unfolding between empire, destruction and myth.
For Edusa — composed by Güldiyar Tanrıdağlı with a libretto by İskender Pala — I developed a digital-art language built from excavated objects, buried roots, monumental animal forms, ruined cities and shifting architectural strata. The images move between archive and hallucination, extending the opera's historical world across the full stage while remaining in dialogue with performers, chorus and scenic structure.
Role
Digital Artist · Visual Direction
Production
Istanbul State Opera and Ballet
Work
Tanrıdağlı · Pala · Edusa
Venue / Year
AKM · World Premiere · 2026
Digital-art sequence in dialogue with the live stage
Buried histories becoming a monumental stage image
Monumental iconography carrying the dramatic rupture
Light, architecture and motion reorganising the stage
Fire and landscape extending beyond the scenic frame
Video architecture holding the full company
A single drawn form amplifying the live gesture
03Kürk Mantolu MadonnaDigital Art for Music Theatre
Stage Worlds / 03
Kürk Mantolu
Madonna
Digital Art for Music Theatre
Berlin remembered through erasure, repetition and projected time.
For the world-premiere stage adaptation of Sabahattin Ali's Kürk Mantolu Madonna — adapted and written for the stage by Ayşe Ceylan and produced by Samsun State Opera and Ballet — I developed a digital image system that moves between architectural memory and psychological space. Berlin stations, broken clocks, drifting pages, birds and erased figures form a layered visual world in dialogue with the live performers.
Role
Digital Artist · Visual Direction
Production
Samsun State Opera and Ballet
Work
Sabahattin Ali · Adaptation / Libretto: Ayşe Ceylan
Venue / Year
Aydın Gün Stage · World Premiere · 2026
Anhalter Bahnhof opening the remembered city
Birds, repeated bodies and a fragile sense of departure
The performer held inside a collapsing clock
Paper fragments turning the stage into unstable memory
Berlin translated into a layered moving backdrop
Light and drawing condensing the emotional transition
02 — Practice
“I build images that do not simply sit on a screen; they inhabit stages, rooms and collective memory.”
Moving Image
Films, AI-assisted narratives and image systems built around memory, identity and psychological space.
Stage & Performance
Visual dramaturgy, projection mapping and responsive worlds for opera, theatre and live music.
Immersive Environments
Site-responsive installations and exhibitions where light, sound and architecture become material.
Working method
Research → visual dramaturgy → motion studies → spatial testing → live image
03 — Selected recognition
Across screens, stages and cities.
AI FilmFest Serbia
Semi-Finalist
The CrackAI FilmFest Serbia
Quarter-Finalist
The MotherlandCloudWalk AI Shorts
Audience Award · 2nd place
The MotherlandVeterans Media Showcase
Honorable Mention
The MotherlandAIAZ International Short Film Festival
Jury Special Award
The Motherland04 — About
Between
signal & residue.
Aisha Hajiyeva is a multidisciplinary digital artist and visual director based in Istanbul.
Her practice spans video art, immersive exhibition, stage visuals, AI-assisted moving image and real-time audiovisual systems. She creates works for opera, theatre, concerts and cultural institutions, exploring memory, identity, psychological states and the fragile boundary between human perception and technology.
Education
BA, Visual Communication Design
MA, Cultural Management
Available for
Art direction · Stage visuals
Immersive commissions · Film