Roman Mitch

Images Negotiating With Each Other: Māori conceptualism in a rule-based multi-agent drawing engine

Agentic Images is a rule-based multi-agent drawing engine in which autonomous agents carry source works into a shared canvas and negotiate territory frame by frame. There is no training corpus, no large language model, no diffusion. The claim of agency is through the piece’s conceptual architecture which is written in te reo Māori: mauri, whenua, whanaungatanga, whakapapa, tikanga. The resulting artifacts—both the IT artifacts of code and screen recordings, and the image outputs—form an agentic infrastructure. Māori concepts operate here as computational substrate and philosophical grounding. This poster presents the architecture, the code, and the outputs, and situates the work within Indigenous computational thought.