About this EpisodeIn this final section of Chapter 1, we delve into the uncanny act of prolonged mirror gazing as a method of self-estrangement. What begins as a reassuring glance becomes a disquieting encounter—where the self, once assumed stable, starts to unravel into something indeterminate. Drawing from personal performance practice, Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, and phenomenology, this video explores how looking at oneself can shift the self from being an answer into becoming a question. What does it mean to see oneself as a machine of potential, rather than a fixed identity?
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-series
PhD thesis (PDF format): https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf
Thesis artworks: https://bit.ly/sfa-art
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