The Clockwork Penguin

Daniel Binns is a media theorist and filmmaker tinkering with the weird edges of technology, storytelling, and screen culture. He is the author of Material Media-Making in the Digital Age and currently writes about posthuman poetics, glitchy machines, and speculative media worlds.



The Archives

  • Zero-Knowledge Proof

    The other week I wrote about generativity and ritual-technics. These are concepts, methods, that have emerged from my work with genAI, but certainly now are…

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  • On generativity, ritual-technics, and the genAI ick

    My work on and with generative AI continues apace, but I’m presently in a bit of a reflection and consolidation phase. One of the notions…

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  • Cinema Disrupted

    Notes from a GenAI Filmmaking Sprint AI video swarms the internet. It’s been around for nearly as long as AI-generated images, however its recent leaps…

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  • RIP Reviewer #2: Are All Peer Reviewers Dicks Now?

    Civility, care, and the ethics of critique in academia Here are some (lightly edited, anonymous) highlights from some recent peer review reports I received on…

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  • How I Read AI Images

    AI-generated media sit somewhere between representational image — representations of data rather than reality — and posthuman artefact. This ambiguous nature suggests that we need…

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