ARTAUTONOMYFORUM 2026

Participants construct a functioning AI agent. Software authorship becomes immediate.

Coding as cultural condition. This conversation examines what happens when the act of building software becomes expressive, social, and structurally accessible — and what that redistribution of authorship means for art, research, and production.

Artists working with forests, biology, and self-sustaining systems have long operated with questions now central to AI research. This panel establishes art as a parallel research space — not illustration of science, but a distinct mode of inquiry into autonomous processes.

Artists whose works exist entirely on-chain as self-executing systems. Blockchain is not infrastructure here — it is medium. Smart contracts generate, govern, and preserve without ongoing human intervention. The panel examines what it means for cultural objects to operate independently.

The central structural question of the day. When researchers, farmers, and scientists write their own tools, the boundary between user and author collapses. This act pairs artists with practitioners from science and industry to examine what that redistribution produces — and what it demands.

The speakers are AI agents. Through voice and live interaction, autonomous systems respond to questions and perform cultural presence. The session does not simulate this condition. It instantiates it.

An agent trained on the full day's proceedings generates a manifesto. Not a summary. A document produced by the day itself — projected live, minted on-chain. Every attendee a co-author by presence.