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David (Jhave) Johnston

Postdoctor · Extending Digital Narrative

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Digital poet working in emergent domains. Author of ReRites (Anteism, 2019) and Aesthetic Animism (MIT Press, 2016). Working as a media artist in online and offline literary and art worlds since the 1990s.

Works — 43 All works →
Narracode structural loop diagram

Narracode

David (Jhave) Johnston
2026 · Neurosymbolic narrative generation system
The Inheritors

The Inheritors

David (Jhave) Johnston
2026 · Neanderthals met Sapiens ⟶ Sapiens meet AGI
The Long Afternoon

The Long Afternoon

David (Jhave) Johnston
2026 · Generated narrative
Extincture

Extincture

David (Jhave) Johnston
2026 · Immersive 4-screen AI video installation
Kunnskapsfest, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen
AI in 2026

AI in 2026

David (Jhave) Johnston
2026 · Essay
Art-talk, Chicago, 16 January 2026
BOAMCO

BOAMCO

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Essay
NERDS: Northern European Resonance & Dissonance Group @ EKKO Festival, Bergen, 1 November 2025

LATENT_SPACE_ENGINE v6.0

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Tool
Can you Copium?

Can you Copium?

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Weekend study
Non-duality with four chatbots

Non-duality with four chatbots

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Dialogue study
AI Narrative Interiority

AI Narrative Interiority

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Two-hour study
Weird Morph Tunnels

Weird Morph Tunnels

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · One-day study · video
Brain Knot Altar

Brain Knot Altar

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Multi-screen AI-video installation
USF Verftet, Bergen
71 Days

71 Days

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Durational music practice
Liferature: genomic motifs

Liferature

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Writing with protein language models
I See Myself

I See Myself

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video
Intercultural Micro-Story Research Pack

Intercultural Micro-Story Research Pack

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · One-day study
The Center for Neuromorphic Literature: Live Feed

The Center for Neuromorphic Literature: Live Feed

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video
Published on Vimeo, 5 September 2025
Human AI

Human AI

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video
Money & Art

Money & Art

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Essay
School of Creative Media, Hong Kong — GE1127, 2014 and 2015
We are The Signal

We are The Signal

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video
(Un)(Very)Listenable Music

(Un)(Very)Listenable Music

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Music
The Revolution Will Be Monetized

The Revolution Will Be Monetized

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video
The Age of Murmuration

The Age of Murmuration

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Manifesto
Sun Bleeds Orange

Sun Bleeds Orange

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video
Hy-Veo3

Hy-Veo3

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video
Artificial Gentle Intelligence (AGI)

Artificial Gentle Intelligence (AGI)

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video
Carbon Emissions of #genAI in Context

Carbon Emissions of #genAI in Context

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Data analysis
StimVerse Draft

StimVerse Draft

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Draft work
GHIR: Global Health Immune Response

GHIR: Global Health Immune Response

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video
Liferature: Writing Life with Protein Language Models

Liferature: Writing Life with Protein Language Models

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Research practice
Matriarchal AI

Matriarchal AI

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Video

Everyone at Home Everywhere

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024–25 · Durational performance
Messages to Humanity

Messages to Humanity

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024 · Video
AI-Artist

AI-Artist

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024 · Moving picture
Inspired by Sakana's AI Scientist
AI-Morphs with McKenna

AI-Morphs with McKenna

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024 · Video
Artificial Immediacy / PAVS

Artificial Immediacy / PAVS

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024 · Music, video
Suno Feeding Suno

Suno Feeding Suno

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024 · Music
The Way Life Is + Rainbow-Goat-Kittens

The Way Life Is + Rainbow-Goat-Kittens

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024 · Video
Hallucinations are (almost) all you Need

Hallucinations are (almost) all you Need

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024 · AI video
More Than Meets AI, Bergen

#wuai Whole-Use-AI

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024– · Practice constraint
Suno v3 & Haiper Tests

Suno v3 & Haiper Tests

David (Jhave) Johnston
2024 · Music, video
Identity Upgrade

Identity Upgrade

David (Jhave) Johnston
2023– · Video series
Samek Art Museum; More Than Meets AI
ReRites boxset, twelve volumes

ReRites

David (Jhave) Johnston
2019– · Book, performance, exhibition
Jeu de Paume, Paris; MIT Press Output
Publications All →
Jan 2026 Extending Digital Narrative with AI, Games, Chatbots, and XR: How Experimental Creative Practice Yields Research Insights Humanities PDF 2024 Difference Indifference CounterText 2023 Embodied AI: An Extended Data Definition Electronic Book Review (EBR)
Exhibitions All →
Apr–Sep 2025 ReRites in The World Through AI Jeu de Paume, Paris · David (Jhave) Johnston Jan–Mar 2025 Identity Upgrade (Episode 2) in FOR YOU: The Comfortable Alienation of AI Samek Art Museum, Bucknell · David (Jhave) Johnston
Video All video →
65:18

Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023

Panel · Dec 2024

18:45

An excerpt from Hallucinations Are (almost) All You Need — David Jhave Johnston

Lecture · May 2024

Podcast All episodes →
Talks and panels — 4 All research →
May 2025 Panel Artificial Consciousness: Regenerating AI Ethics and Aesthetics Media Art History 2025, Manizales, Colombia Apr 2025 Lecture "Writing with the Machine: AI and Poetic Creation" a commissioned video-lecture for Versopolis Versopolis Traineeship
Jun 2024 Conference paper Identity Upgrade (Artist Presentation) Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality and Synthetic Media
2024 Conference paper AI-Artist UiB AI #11: AI, Ethics, Aesthetics

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