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

  • 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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  • A Little Slop Music

    The AI experiment that turned my ick to 11 (now you can try it too!) When I sit at the piano I’m struck by a…

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  • Glitching Toward Understanding

    A little while ago, I spoke with machine learning engineer and responsible AI expert Bogdana Rakova about my approach to generative AI education and research:…

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  • From Caméra-Stylo to Prompt-Stylo

    A few weeks ago I was invited to present some of my work at Caméra-Stylo, a fantastic conference run every two years by the Sydney…

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