Research · AI Mediation · Visual Practice

Meaning changes as it moves.

Language is translated. Stories are retold. Images are interpreted. Color shapes perception. Artificial intelligence increasingly mediates all of these.

My work explores how humans construct, perceive, and communicate meaning across language, narrative, and visual forms, and how artificial intelligence transforms human expression at scale.

Narrative Flattening Analysis Framework (NFAF)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16885077 ORCID: 0009-0003-2175-3239

An original framework developed by Johennie Helton for examining how narrative voice, imagery, cadence, emotional register, and semantic precision change during AI mediation.

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Research

AI Mediation

Research examining how language, narrative, translation, and artificial intelligence influence the communication and transformation of meaning.

  • Foundations: Case studies
  • Musings: Living notebook
  • Origins: Research history
  • Reading Nook: Selected bibliography
  • Publications
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JAS · Johennie’s Art Studio

Color & Watercolor

An art studio exploring watercolor, pigments, color, visual meaning, and ways of seeing.

  • Pigment collection
  • Munsell and PCCS references
  • Color studies
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