David Johnston
Position
Postdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation
Research groups
Short info
AI & Narrative with a focus on research-creation interdisciplinary explorations. Following AI research generally in order to derive socio-cultural implications. Creative works are published through personal website: http://glia.ca/
Research
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.
Publications
Exhibition production
- David Jhave Johnston (2025). “Identity Upgrade (Episode 2)” exhibited at "FOR YOU: The Comfortable Alienation of AI” at Samek Art Museum. (external link)
- David Jhave Johnston (2025). “ReRites” exhibited at "The World Through AI” at Jeu de Paume. (external link)
- Tegan Pyke; David Jhave Johnston; Scott Robert Rettberg et al. (2023). Introducing the Center for Digital Narrative. (external link)
Moving image/film
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
See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.
"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/