About this Episode
This episode introduces the research methodology at the heart of Scripting for Agency. Combining performance practice, critical self-reflection, and a mechanistic approach to concepts like self, character, and agency, it outlines how experimental role-play and artistic improvisation can function as a “laboratory of the soul.” The video explores how language, repetition, pattern, and meme-like behaviours contribute to selfhood, and explains how characters—viewed as free-floating scripts—are performed, transmitted, and questioned through embodied artistic inquiry.
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
Revolutionary: https://youtu.be/PTPnhMeIs3Y?feature=shared
Suburbia: https://youtu.be/S5yShx7fGCs?feature=shared
References
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- Bök, Christian. “A Zoom Lens for the Future of the Text.” _CARPA 7 Conference, Uniarts Helsinki_. YouTube video, uploaded 27 October 2021. • CARPA 7 Conference 2021: Christian Bök – A...
- Ranković, Slavica and Miloš. “A Formula is a Habit Colliding with Life.” - A Story About A Drawing.” The Journal of Arts Writing by Students 4, no. 1 (April 2017): 85–92.
- Dion, Mark. “Field Work and the Natural History Museum.” In The Optic of Walter Benjamin, edited by Alex Coles, Vol. 3 of DE-, DIS-, EX-, 39. London: Black Dog, 1999.
- Goodman, Nelson. Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1976.
