Style Syntax: AI × Emotion
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Artist Statement
Minming Wei is an emerging artist and designer with a background in banking and fashion enterprise. Her professional experience includes banking services and financial management. She studied Fashion Enterprise at RMIT University and is currently pursuing master's studies in art curatorship at the University of Melbourne, expanding her engagement with art, design and curatorial practice. Her transition from finance into fashion and the arts brings an analytical perspective to her creative development. Through Style Syntax: AI x Emotion, she explores how clothing and technology intersect with identity, emotion and personal choice.
My developing practice explores how fashion and technology shape identity, emotion and personal choice. I use digital imagery, visual storytelling and publication design to investigate the difference between how a person appears and how they experience themselves. In Style Syntax: AI x Emotion, conceptual images and imagined encounters question how algorithms interpret the dressed body. Rather than rejecting AI or treating it as an authority, I explore its potential as a creative collaborator, while keeping the wearer's freedom to question, revise or refuse central to the exchange.
Work Statement
Style Syntax: AI x Emotion is a 20-page art zine combining conceptual digital imagery, AI-generated scenes, photography and scripted text. Proposed format: A5 portrait, 148 × 210 mm closed and approximately 296 × 210 mm open; binding is to be confirmed. Through page turning, the publication follows the body as it is seen, predicted and felt. The proposed printed display requires a reading table or shelf and standard gallery lighting. No dedicated power, internet connection or specialist equipment is required.
Style Syntax: AI x Emotion approaches Mind × Body through the relationship between inner experience and outward appearance. Clothing becomes a meeting point for sensation, memory, identity and interpretation. Transparent bodies, fragmented faces and images of touch explore the distance between being visually recognised and personally understood. The turning point, “I like it. But not today,” shows how emotion can change a seemingly suitable recommendation. AI offers possibilities, but the wearer retains the freedom to question, revise or refuse. Emotion gives choice meaning; agency keeps it personal.
Style Syntax: AI × Emotion was presented in Mind × Body: Catalyst Phenomenon Archive, organised by the Reality Intelligence Association as part of London Design Festival 2026.
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