AI in 2026

when the ineffable becomes algorithmically tractable

Created: 06•01•2026
(Art-talk backing video)

Concept

"AI in 2026: when the ineffable becomes algorithmically tractable"
Backing video for a 10m art-talk given January 16th 2026 in Chicago.


It features excerpts from AI-works created between Oct 2023 - Nov 2025:



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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.

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).

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