Video footage from Open Research day on 17 May 2025 at Battersea Arts Centre, feat. Natalia Korczakowska, Teatr Studio, Pricilla Lee, Sung Im Her and her dance company, and filmed by Google DeepMind Productions.

Work by Richard Evans with Ben Wedin, Piotr Mirowski, Reinald Kim Amployo, Richard Galt, Duncan Williams, Rida Qadri, Sian Gooding, Lucia Lopez Rivilla, João G. M. Araújo, Jaume Sanchez Elias, Erin Drake Kajioka, Edward Grefenstette, Emily Conn, Satinder Singh Baveja, Laura Rimell, Shakir Mohamed.

So, are you into writing? Then register your interest for Fabula at: deepmind.google.com/frontiers/fa...

We are inviting further writers to try Fabula and see if it is useful for learning, structuring ideas, and supporting human creativity. On the video: playwright Natalia Korczakowska, Artistic Director of STUDIO teatrgaleria in Warsaw, discusses her creative process.

We ran many workshop studies with our prototype, sought critical feedback from diverse industry experts on subjects ranging from the writing process, narratology, screen production, and cultural localisation, who discussed their creative practice and commented on AI ethics and on the Fabula app.

We are a small team passionate about interactive fiction, theatre, theatrical improvisation and computational creativity, and have been developing Fabula using principles of participatory AI, taking critical feedback from the industry in and integrating it within our process.

Fabula is not a story generator – it is a tool to empower a writer as they go through the creative process of exploring their story, by giving them coherent AI-based suggestions that allow them to iterate on versions of their stories, characters and story arc.

Fabula is a co-creation tool that enables writers to quickly review, revise, and iterate on a story plan and script. We crafted detailed instructions to build a story's structure, based on classical narratology, and power the app using Google DeepMind’s latest version of Gemini.

With gratitude to Google Research/Arts & Culture/DeepMind, Katherine Heller, Andrew Smart, Kory Mathewson, Chelsey Fleming, Pamela Peter-Agbia, Eva Kozanecka, Xiao Ma and Shakir Mohamed, and above all Aroussiak Gabriellan, Farbod Mehr, Fuchsia Hart, Huma Gupta, Morehshin Allahyari, Pamela Karimi.

We just published and presented our findings in a sociotechnical AI research paper at Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2025): “AI and Non-Western Art Worlds: Reimagining Critical AI Futures through Artistic Inquiry and Situated Dialogue", jointly authored by Rida Qadri, Remi Denton and yours truly.

Using the Persian Gulf as a case, we worked with 3 visual artists and 3 experts from cultural institutions, engaging in a longitudinal study and dialogue, moving away from “datasets” to curated archives, and showcasing how local art communities can redesign AI to be more culturally-relevant.

Mindfix and Friendly Fire are the brainchildren of the fantastic artist and filmmaker Manuel Flurin Hendry, who just defended his PhD at ZHdK on AI chatbots and the history of phrenology and the science of emotions.
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Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, die Mobiliar, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Speech Graphics, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, DIZH, Ernst Göhner Stiftung and ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

Produced by Silicon Stories. Team: Meredith Thomas, Paulina Zybinska, Norbert Kottmann, Linus Jacobsson, martin fröhlich, Patrick Karpiczenko, Florian Bruggisser, Piotr Mirowski, Stella Speziali, Domenico Ferrari and Gunter Loesel.

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