About this EpisodeIn this episode, we explore the metaphor of the artist as a medium: a channel for other voices, forces, and intentions. Drawing from historical, spiritual, and artistic lineages, the video asks what it means to make space for otherness in art, and how we might conceptualise agency. Does creativity come from within—or through us? And how does this affect our understanding of authorship, originality, and intentionality?
About this Series
Scripting for Agency: An Artistic Enquiry into Selfhood, Character and Agency in the Age of AI is a video lecture series based on Dr Katarina Ranković’s practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Combining philosophy, performance, creative writing, and AI theory, the series explores how our understanding of the self shapes our personal lives, our politics, and our relationship to intelligent technologies.Links
Series Playlist: https://bit.ly/sfa-seriesPhD thesis (PDF format): https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf
Thesis artworks: https://bit.ly/sfa-art
References
- Warner, Marina. Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Burke, Sean, ed. Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.
- Zucker, Jerry, dir. Ghost. Paramount Pictures, 1990.