AI, Art and Storytelling: From Generation to Agency
- Jun 19
- 1 min read
What happens to art and storytelling when AI stops being a tool and becomes an agent?
Generative AI has already unsettled our frameworks for thinking about authorship, authenticity, and creative expression — forcing us to ask what it means for something to be genuine, original, or meaningfully human. The emergence of agentic AI — systems that can reason, decide, and act autonomously — compounds these questions in new and underexplored ways. Where generative AI mimics the products of human creativity, agentic AI operates outside the logic of narrative altogether: no arc, no stakes, no perspective, no meaning-making. What does that do to the stories we tell, and the ways we tell them?
This seminar brings together three researchers working across media theory, literary studies, and art history to explore what AI — generative and agentic — means for narrative, delegation, counterfactuality, and human expression. Bringing together perspectives from Australia and France, the seminar draws on two research cultures with distinct but complementary approaches to AI and the humanities — and on collaborations forged through recent exchanges between RMIT and leading French research institutions. It is a rare opportunity to think across media theory, literary studies, art history, and creative practice — and to explore together what these shifts mean for narrative, authorship, and human expression.
22 June 2026 4:30pm Melbourne/AEST; 8:30am Paris/CET
Online via Zoom
All welcome, free but registration required
Comments