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

  • Show your work

    “… this year has been characterised by a deliberate choice to open up my research, creativity, practice, and weirdo critical-creative play.”

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  • As If: DIY Religion Generator

    Continuing the little riff I’m on around generativity as a broad phenomenon and concept rather than something specific to AI, here’s something I concocted earlier…

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  • 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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