Agentic Media: Formations of Semi-Autonomy (B08)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 262513311

The project researches the formation and differentiation of novel media technologies that act as (semi )autonomous entities. Three complementary case studies examine the challenges, forms and conditions of cooperation with agentic media: (1) figurations of teamwork with synthetic agents, (2) practices of sense-making with and about generative machine learning models, and (3) the develop-ment of synthetic agents in and for scientific contexts. In doing so, the project contributes to the media- and social-theoretical analysis of contemporary AI technologies as relational, situated and semi-autonomous agents.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Heads: Dr. Marcus Burkhardt; Professorin Dr. Karin Knorr Cetina