What Is a Self? Rethinking Identity, Character & AI through Art

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.

Originally recorded for YouTube: https://bit.ly/sfa-series

PhD thesis (PDF format): https://bit.ly/sfa-pdf

Thesis artworks: https://bit.ly/sfa-art

The series consists of 7 Chapters divided into 41 Episodes. A new episode is released every Sunday and Thursday. The series concludes on 14th December 2025.

Chapters

0 - Introduction → 27.07.25

1 - Becoming a Question → 14.08.25

2 - The Shape of a Thinking Thing → 14.09.25

3 - Code and Expression → 05.10.25

4 - Character, Frames and Climates → 23.10.25

5 - Classes of Character and a Politics of Inner Self → 09.11.25

6 - The Holographic Human: A Romance of Many Dimensions → 30.11.25

7 - Conclusion → 14.12.25