DESCRIPTION: Brain-Knot Altar is a pyramid grid of 6 looping screens + 2 tablets, showing 12 short AI-generated videos. Centrepiece is scattered brain rot playing cards under shift color Ikea lamp & a plastic plant decorated with 3D printed brain-rot kitsch. Each video fragment reflects a search for the core of micro-narratives: what constitutes interest in an era of abundance? As certainty erodes, attention fragments, collective storytelling corrodes, and catharsis totters toward torpor, how will AI govern, merge, edutain, control or modulate art-society-identity? Brain-Knot Altar explores a veneration of trivia mingling with the non-dual profound as it visualizes the tension between algorithmic overload and emergent meaning.
MEDIA: Multi-Screen AI Video Installation — Veo3, Runway, Fal.ai, Flux.dev Kontext, GPT-5, Gemini, Suno, ElevenLabs, DeepGram, Topaz, Seedance v1, Seedream v4, + Italian Brain Rot cards (supplied courtesy of Gabrielle de Seta)
DURATION: Approximately 30m total of looping variable length videos.
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Bottom Center
Bottom Right
Middle Left
- “You Can’t always get what you Prompt” [Ep.2] - Sasha & Remi discuss WWIII
- You Can't Always Get What You Prompt [Ep.1]
Middle Right
- Human AI (When the Merge comes it will feel Normal)
- I See Myself (8 prompts, 3 generators, 1 self)
- A Rule is no Better than a Seed (Micro-story JSON prompt experiments)
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Tablets
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Bio
David Jhave Johnston is a digital poet working in emergent domains. Author of ReRites (Anteism, 2019) and Aesthetic Animism (MIT Press, 2016). He is currenty an AI-narrative researcher at the UiB Centre for Digital Narrative (2023–26) with the Extending Digital Narrative project. https://www.glia.ca/
Funding
This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence scheme, project number 332643 (Center for Digital Narrative), and its SAMKUL project scheme, project number 335129 (Extending Digital Narrative).
