fondazione LIBERO BIZZARRI
Within the GeniaLAB format, “Artificial Intelligence in Nonfiction Storytelling” focuses on how algorithmic tools are reshaping contemporary documentary practice, influencing languages, creative processes, and the ways nonfiction works are produced and circulated. The topic examines the relationship between technological innovation and nonfiction narrative forms, with particular attention to how writing, visual design, and meaning-making evolve when AI enters creative workflows. Developed in collaboration with the Libero Bizzarri Foundation, a leading institution dedicated to promoting and supporting Italian documentary cinema, the initiative is framed within an understanding of documentary as a cultural practice and a critical tool for engaging with the complexity of the present.
The intersection between documentary and AI is approached as a research field where production opportunities and formal experimentation coexist with questions of responsibility, transparency, and the quality of representation.
The broader theoretical framework draws on media theory that considers technologies as extensions of the human being, referencing the legacy of Marshall McLuhan and contemporary perspectives on the relationship between media, perception, and the construction of reality. From this standpoint, AI is treated not only as a set of tools, but as an element that reorganizes the visual ecosystem and the ways reality is selected, edited, and communicated. The focus includes the use of AI across multiple stages of documentary work, from research and writing to development, distribution, and audience engagement, while also addressing critical and ethical implications related to authorship, creative control, source transparency, and the cultural effects of images. The project is also part of a broader collaboration between AANT and the Libero Bizzarri Foundation aimed at fostering further dialogue on innovation, research, and culture.
