Borås Art Biennial 2026. Photo: Hendrik Zeitler

Shape Shifters

Installations
Generative algorithm, 4 erasure poems, infinite duration
Weavings, linen, paper yarn, copper thread, repurposed silk
Programming in collaboration with Anders Visti
Design consultants: Nakworks and Alexis Mark
(2026)

Commissioned for the Borås Art Biennial 2026, Shape Shifters is presented in Borås city center as a diptych of generative algorithms, and at The Textile Museum in Borås as an installation comprising a swarm of moth weavings and ceaselessly transforming algorithmic poems. Anchored in the 1947 anecdote of a moth fluttering into a Harvard computer—famously noted as the “first actual computer bug”—the work reimagines the moth as a textile motif, a bug in the system, and a messenger of environmental change. Inspired by Danish artist Ragna Braase’s luminous weaving Natsværmere [Moths], Buhl has woven glitched moth mutations on her wooden shaft loom using repurposed silk, conductive copper wire, and linen to tangibly connect the binary logic of computing with the ancient craft of weaving.