Ai + Narrative on Extending Digital Narrative grant.

Affiliated with Centre for Digital Narrative.

This research is partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence program, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative and project number 335129, Extending Digital Narrative.

Academic article

• Lina Ruth Harder; David Jhave Johnston; Scott Rettberg et al. (2026). Extending Digital Narrative with AI, Games, Chatbots, and XR: How Experimental Creative Practice Yields Research Insights. (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2024). Difference Indifference. (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2023). Embodied AI: An Extended Data Definition. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Budhaditya Chattopadhyay; Frans Jacobi; David Rych et al. (2025). Artificial Consciouness: Regenerating AI Ethics and Aesthetics. (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2024). AI-Artist. (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2024). Identity Upgrade (Artist Presentation). (external link)

Exhibition production

• Scott Robert Rettberg; David Jhave Johnston; Ola Roth Johnsen et al. (2025). An Eye for AI Cinema. (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2025). “ReRites” exhibited at "The World Through AI” at Jeu de Paume. (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2025). “Identity Upgrade (Episode 2)” exhibited at "FOR YOU: The Comfortable Alienation of AI” at Samek Art Museum. (external link)
• Tegan Pyke; David Jhave Johnston; Scott Robert Rettberg et al. (2023). Introducing the Center for Digital Narrative. (external link)

Lecture

• David Jhave Johnston (2026). Consciousness, Understanding, and Mechanistic Interpretability in Frontier AI. (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2025). "Writing with the Machine: AI and Poetic Creation" a commissioned video-lecture for Versopolis. (external link)

Moving image/film

• David Jhave Johnston (2024). AI-Artist (inspired by Sakana's AI Scientist). (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2024). Hallucinations are (almost) all you Need. (external link)

Podcast

• Scott Robert Rettberg; David Jhave Johnston (2024). Off Center Episode 13: Creative AI with David Jhave Johnston | ebr. (external link)

Visual arts

• Scott Robert Rettberg; David Jhave Johnston; Eamon O'Kane et al. (2026). More Than Meets AI | Lake Forest College. (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2026). Extincture. (external link)
• David Jhave Johnston (2026). David Jhave Johnston, ReRites, Human + A.I. Poetry | PLACE - Revue d'Art / Art Magazine. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

"Hallucinations are (almost) all you Need" An AI-generated audio-visual artistic-lecture about AI advances. (Video-essay, June 5th, 2024) http://glia.ca/2024/Hallucinations/