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

  • Re/Framing Field Lab

    Here’s a little write-up of a workshop I ran at University of Queensland a few weeks ago; these sorts of write-ups are usually distributed via…

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  • Understanding the ‘Slopocene’: how the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings

    Some say it’s em dashes, dodgy apostrophes, or too many emoji. Others suggest that maybe the word “delve” is a chatbot’s calling card. It’s no…

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  • Re-Wilding AI

    Here’s a recorded version of a workshop I first delivered at the Artificial Visionaries symposium at the University of Queensland in November 2024. I’ve used…

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  • Why can’t you just THINK?!

    “Just use your imagination” / “Try thinking like a normal person” There is this wonderful reactionary nonsense flying around that making use of generative AI…

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  • Clearframe

    An accidental anti-productivity productivity system Since 2023, I’ve been working with genAI chatbots. What began as a novelty—occasionally useful for a quick grant summary or…

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