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

  • 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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  • The roaring 2020s and their spectacular picture palaces

    I took myself off to the movies lastnight. First time since 1917. The Sam Mendes film I mean, uh, obviously. Having gone on my little…

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  • Inertia

    Since the interminable Melbourne lockdowns and their horrific effect on the population of the city, my place of work has implemented ‘slow-down’ periods. These are…

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  • Blinded by machine visions

    I threw around a quick response to this article on the socials this morning and, in particular, some of the reactions I was seeing. Here’s…

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