Emergent Stories: AI Agents and New Narratives

Abstract: This panel explores how AI agents are reshaping contemporary storytelling across games, installations, film, and performance. From multi-agent LLM architectures that generate narratives through simulated social dynamics to environments where humans and AI construct meaning together under uncertainty, each work examines how stories emerge between actors. An interactive performance exposes the limits of computational empathy through a malfunctioning therapeutic agent, while Little Martians turns ceramic sculptures into autonomous creators releasing daily films. We will discuss how these and related projects consider storytelling as a distributed, agent-driven process that displaces the current norms of coherence, authorship and narrative control.