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

  • Back on the (block)chain gang

    My current writing project is around blockchain and the entertainment industries, and mostly involves sorting hype from legitimate ideas. This is one of the first…

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  • Interview with Intellect Books

    In the chaos of 2020 I didn’t post this, but here’s a chat I had with the lovely James from Intellect Books. Mostly we chat…

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  • Art

    A ghost turned up in an inbox search yesterday. All too true. I miss you, my friend.

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  • Material Media-Making is out (digitally) now

    The digital (PDF/EPUB) version of my new book Material Media-Making in the Digital Age is available now! Head to the Intellect site to purchase (or…

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  • Housebound revisited

    Made in August 2019 while waiting at home for a tradie. How young I was. How naive. [vimeo 355037923 w=640 h=360] Housebound from Deluded Penguin…

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