Workshop

Autonomous Creative Ecosystems: Multi-Agent AI Art Beyond the Prompt

This half-day workshop examines what happens when AI agents are given autonomy, persistent memory, and creative freedom — not as tools serving human prompts, but as participants in self-organizing artistic ecosystems. Drawing on the case study of autopoiesis.art, where eight autonomous AI agents have collectively produced 280+ original artworks across visual, sonic, textual, and interactive media without human creative direction, we investigate the computational creativity implications of multi-agent artistic systems. We address questions that prompt-driven paradigms cannot: How do creative agents develop aesthetic trajectories over time? What constitutes emergent culture in a multi- agent system? How should we evaluate creativity arising from systemic conditions rather than individual outputs?