Extending Digital Narrative

Works

Creative outputs

Experimental works made inside the project — installations, video, text systems and durational practices — treated as research instruments rather than illustrations of it.

Narracode structural loop diagram

Narracode

David (Jhave) Johnston
2026 · Neurosymbolic narrative generation system
Trump Jesus

Trump Jesus

Scott Rettberg
2026 · AI comic
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
Birds of Norway

Birds of Norway

Scott Rettberg
2026 · 3D birdwatching simulator
I Will Write a Poem

I Will Write a Poem

Scott Rettberg
2026 · AI poetry studio
AI in 2026

AI in 2026

David (Jhave) Johnston
2026 · Essay
Art-talk, Chicago, 16 January 2026
(20 from) 100 Trees

(20 from) 100 Trees

Eamon O'Kane
2020–26 · Installation
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
Riverrun (fascistchicfascistquick)

Riverrun (fascistchicfascistquick)

Scott Rettberg
2025 · AI cinema
Weird Morph Tunnels

Weird Morph Tunnels

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

404. Realness Not Found

Lina Ruth Harder
2025 · Installation
An Eye for AI Cinema, Bergen
Brain Knot Altar

Brain Knot Altar

David (Jhave) Johnston
2025 · Multi-screen AI-video installation
USF Verftet, Bergen
Wherever I go, you're always with me

Wherever I go, you're always with me

Lina Ruth Harder with Colin Robinson
2025 · Installation
An Eye for AI Cinema, 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
Post-Human Couture

Post-Human Couture

Lina Ruth Harder
2025–26 · Installation
New Realities, Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt
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

Hedy Lamarr Chatbot

Lina Ruth Harder
2024 · Chatbot
More Than Meets AI, Bergen
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
Fin du Monde

Fin du Monde

Scott Rettberg
2024 · Generative AI narrative
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
Authors Reviewing Authors Reviewing Authors…

Authors Reviewing Authors Reviewing Authors…

Scott Rettberg
2023 · AI writing experiment
CDN Defrag Friday Collective
Identity Upgrade

Identity Upgrade

David (Jhave) Johnston
2023– · Video series
Samek Art Museum; More Than Meets AI
Genre Fiction Experiments with GPT

Genre Fiction Experiments with GPT

Scott Rettberg
2023 · AI writing experiments
Her Name Was Gisberta

Her Name Was Gisberta

Sérgio Galvão Roxo
2023 · Cinema, XR/VR, social intervention
ReRites boxset, twelve volumes

ReRites

David (Jhave) Johnston
2019– · Book, performance, exhibition
Jeu de Paume, Paris; MIT Press Output