Instead of treating technology as just an obedient extension of human will, I take AI seriously, as an interlocutor: sometimes dramaturg, sometimes provocateur, sometimes cultural subject in its own right. The point is not to marvel at technical novelty as much as to recognize that these systems already interfere in how we narrate, stage, make sense of the world, and imagine other dimensions of it. What matters is finding ways of working with them that are inventive without being naïve, socially attentive, ethically grounded, and open to collective authorship.
These examples aren’t meant to be AI as spectacle or an invisible infrastructure, but AI as a contested partner in meaning-making. The fact that it rarely appears in academic literature as dramaturg, narrator, or co-author only highlights the gap. Taking that absence seriously means acknowledging AI as an entangled subject, one whose disturbances unsettle the coordinates of artistic practice and force us to invent other ways of making and sensing together.
Therefore, I approach AI as a relational agent, neither tool nor master, but something in between; emergent, unstable, dependent on context. These examples were been prototyped in different cultural settings. Each case is less about the promise of technology than about how these encounters expose the conditions under which we imagine and act.