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

  • Grotesque fascination

    A few weeks back, some colleagues and I were invited to share some new thoughts and ideas on the theme of ‘ecomedia’, as a lovely…

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  • Conjuring to a brief

    This semester I’m running a Media studio called ‘Augmenting Creativity’. The basic goal is to develop best practices for working with generative AI tools not…

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  • Unknown Song By…

    A week or two ago I went to help my Mum downsize before she moves house. As with any move, there was a lot of…

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  • Generatainment 101

    In putting together a few bits and bobs for academic work on generative AI and creativity, I’m poking around in all sorts of strange places,…

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  • Elusive images

    An AI generated image showing dense foliage grows over concrete ruins.

    Up until this year, AI-generated video was something of a white whale for tech developers. Early experiments resulted in janky-looking acid dream GIFs; vaguely recognisable…

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