Dr Kieran Nolan
@kierannolan.bsky.social
Artist, Researcher, Lecturer. / PhD, MA x2, BDes(Hons). / Co-Director, Creative Arts Research Centre, DkIT. Co-President for the History of Games conference: https://bsky.app/profile/historyofgames.bsky.social / kierannolan.com
Abstract Play - Rev 1.0 (2025) vimeo.com/1132759825 began as a JavaScript animation test, evolved into a text-art infused game / playable academic abstract concept (currently with lorem ipsumised text). Sound is a mix of Roland's 808 drum machine and ambient electronic tones
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Abstract Play - Rev 1.0 (2025) vimeo.com/1132759825 began as a JavaScript animation test, evolved into a text-art infused game / playable academic abstract concept (currently with lorem ipsumised text). Sound is a mix of Roland's 808 drum machine and ambient electronic tones
I've updated the publications page on my website ➡️ kierannolan.com/publications The new layout auto-generates the list and all links from a BibTex file. The same source file can be used to generate a print doc using LaTeX, very handy. Huge thanks everyone who's helped me get my research out there🙏
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I've updated the publications page on my website ➡️ kierannolan.com/publications The new layout auto-generates the list and all links from a BibTex file. The same source file can be used to generate a print doc using LaTeX, very handy. Huge thanks everyone who's helped me get my research out there🙏
This video explores the inspirations behind my Video Games That Don't Exist project, vimeo.com/1131750048 part of the Kuse gu Aru AI art award finalist exhibition in Kyoto 19/10/25 - 03/11/25 awrd.com/award/kuse-g... includes a quick intro to machinima and AI driven machinima
Jury video for Kuse ga Aru Award: Painting (塗) - Kyoto 2025
Jury video for Kuse ga Aru Award: Painting (塗), An AI + human co-creation art award. My AI machinima movie Video Games That Don’t Exist was chosen as a finalist…
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October 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This video explores the inspirations behind my Video Games That Don't Exist project, vimeo.com/1131750048 part of the Kuse gu Aru AI art award finalist exhibition in Kyoto 19/10/25 - 03/11/25 awrd.com/award/kuse-g... includes a quick intro to machinima and AI driven machinima
𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 screened at @lecubegarges.bsky.social in Paris yesterday (25/10/25) for the launch of Cycle machinim_ai - Programme Dopamine. Huge gratitude to the curators 🙏 - Next screenings at Le Cube Garges are 27/03/26 and 22/04/26 - more info at: kierannolan.com/videogamesth...
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 screened at @lecubegarges.bsky.social in Paris yesterday (25/10/25) for the launch of Cycle machinim_ai - Programme Dopamine. Huge gratitude to the curators 🙏 - Next screenings at Le Cube Garges are 27/03/26 and 22/04/26 - more info at: kierannolan.com/videogamesth...
My AI machinima movie project 'Video Games That Don't Exist' is one of 3 finalists for the Kuse Ga Aru Award: Painting (塗) for AI + human art co-creation, and will be on exhibition in Kyoto from the 19th October to the 3rd of November. Find out more at: awrd.com/award/kuse-g...
October 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My AI machinima movie project 'Video Games That Don't Exist' is one of 3 finalists for the Kuse Ga Aru Award: Painting (塗) for AI + human art co-creation, and will be on exhibition in Kyoto from the 19th October to the 3rd of November. Find out more at: awrd.com/award/kuse-g...
Today Prof Griff Rollefson from UCC and myself presented 'File Sharing from the Early Online Hip Hop Underground: H2Éire / irishhiphop.com and its contemporaries' for the Hip Hop and the Institution Conference hosted by the Open University - more details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/kieran...
September 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today Prof Griff Rollefson from UCC and myself presented 'File Sharing from the Early Online Hip Hop Underground: H2Éire / irishhiphop.com and its contemporaries' for the Hip Hop and the Institution Conference hosted by the Open University - more details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/kieran...
Salute to Sandbox Automatic, a pioneer of early online music retail. Its vast archive of fuzzy AM radio style RealAudio clips made it a beacon of hip hop culture, broadcasting worldwide. Many of its .ra files are still accessible with VLC player web.archive.org/web/20090709...
September 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Salute to Sandbox Automatic, a pioneer of early online music retail. Its vast archive of fuzzy AM radio style RealAudio clips made it a beacon of hip hop culture, broadcasting worldwide. Many of its .ra files are still accessible with VLC player web.archive.org/web/20090709...
A link to a short report on LinkedIn about my retro games research presentation at the 2025 History of Games conference in Kraków in collaboration with my esteemed colleagues Pro Alan Meades and Dr Alex Wade www.linkedin.com/posts/kieran...
A couple of pics of my conference presentation with Alan Meades at day 1 of the History of Games Conference in Kraków (https://lnkd.in/euDcG7TE).
This work of ours in collaboration with Alex Wade… |...
A couple of pics of my conference presentation with Alan Meades at day 1 of the History of Games Conference in Kraków (https://lnkd.in/euDcG7TE).
This work of ours in collaboration with Alex Wade is...
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September 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A link to a short report on LinkedIn about my retro games research presentation at the 2025 History of Games conference in Kraków in collaboration with my esteemed colleagues Pro Alan Meades and Dr Alex Wade www.linkedin.com/posts/kieran...
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Wow! Day 3 of the 2025 History of Games conference in Krakow is complete! We’ve all had an amazing time, sincere thanks the local organising team and to everybody who presented, attended, reviewed, and helped spread the word 🙏
We’ll be back in 2026!
More news on the venue and CFP soon!
We’ll be back in 2026!
More news on the venue and CFP soon!
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September 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Wow! Day 3 of the 2025 History of Games conference in Krakow is complete! We’ve all had an amazing time, sincere thanks the local organising team and to everybody who presented, attended, reviewed, and helped spread the word 🙏
We’ll be back in 2026!
More news on the venue and CFP soon!
We’ll be back in 2026!
More news on the venue and CFP soon!
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We’ve had our coffee and are back for the evening session for day 3 of History of Games 2025 in Krakow! with a panel on Overlooked Genres featuring research talks by Regina Seiwald and Emil Lundedal Hammar, and the Materialities panel with presentations from Marcelo Simeoni Paul and Logan Brown 👾🥣📱
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September 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We’ve had our coffee and are back for the evening session for day 3 of History of Games 2025 in Krakow! with a panel on Overlooked Genres featuring research talks by Regina Seiwald and Emil Lundedal Hammar, and the Materialities panel with presentations from Marcelo Simeoni Paul and Logan Brown 👾🥣📱
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We’re back with epic research by Zdeněk Záhora, Marek Mikeš, Will Butler, Marçal Mora-Cantallops, Victor Navarro-Remesal, Pawel Grabarczyk, Marvin M. Chojnacki, Emmanoel Ferreira, Jose Zagel, Mary Anne Argo-Chávez, Sebastián Reyes-Díaz, Alonso Soto-Cerda, Enzo Le Guiriec,and Aleksander Franiczek 🎓💻👾
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September 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We’re back with epic research by Zdeněk Záhora, Marek Mikeš, Will Butler, Marçal Mora-Cantallops, Victor Navarro-Remesal, Pawel Grabarczyk, Marvin M. Chojnacki, Emmanoel Ferreira, Jose Zagel, Mary Anne Argo-Chávez, Sebastián Reyes-Díaz, Alonso Soto-Cerda, Enzo Le Guiriec,and Aleksander Franiczek 🎓💻👾
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It’s day 3 of History of Games 2025 in Kraków! An inspiring keynote by Souvik Mukherjee, followed by research talks from Onerva Puhakka, Gerald Kapałka, Milly Gunn, Scott Knight, Sandra Camarda, Maria B. Garda, Markus Spöhrer, Rory Manning Graham, Sergio Gutiérrez-Manjón, and Sergio Álvarez-García
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September 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It’s day 3 of History of Games 2025 in Kraków! An inspiring keynote by Souvik Mukherjee, followed by research talks from Onerva Puhakka, Gerald Kapałka, Milly Gunn, Scott Knight, Sandra Camarda, Maria B. Garda, Markus Spöhrer, Rory Manning Graham, Sergio Gutiérrez-Manjón, and Sergio Álvarez-García
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Our evening continued with research from Salvador Gómez-García, Krzysztof Olszamowski, Anna Kożuch, Milly Gunn, Marcelo Simeoni Paul, Rafael Marques de Albuquerque, Flávio Anthero Nunes Vianna dos Santos, Victor Navarro-Remesal, Beatriz Pérez-Zapata, Michal Kabát, + Juraj Kovalćik. Roll on day 3!
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September 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our evening continued with research from Salvador Gómez-García, Krzysztof Olszamowski, Anna Kożuch, Milly Gunn, Marcelo Simeoni Paul, Rafael Marques de Albuquerque, Flávio Anthero Nunes Vianna dos Santos, Victor Navarro-Remesal, Beatriz Pérez-Zapata, Michal Kabát, + Juraj Kovalćik. Roll on day 3!
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After lunch across our 3 panels we had packed schedule of games history research talks from Hans-Joachim Backe, Diego Barroso Sanchez, Mariano Falzone, Przemysław Ciszek, Hiloko Kato, Richard Sherriff, Maximos S. Theodoropoulos and Ivan Barroso. Followed by Leonid Moyzhes, Marek Blacha
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September 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
After lunch across our 3 panels we had packed schedule of games history research talks from Hans-Joachim Backe, Diego Barroso Sanchez, Mariano Falzone, Przemysław Ciszek, Hiloko Kato, Richard Sherriff, Maximos S. Theodoropoulos and Ivan Barroso. Followed by Leonid Moyzhes, Marek Blacha
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That’s a wrap for day 2 of 3 of History of Games 2025 in Krakow! This morning Tomek Kreczmar keynoted, and we had presentations from Regina Seiwald, Bruno de Paula, Pierre-Yves Hurel, Péter Kristóf Makai, Jakub Majewski, Aleksandra Mochocka, and Pedro Alejandro Tiscar
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September 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
That’s a wrap for day 2 of 3 of History of Games 2025 in Krakow! This morning Tomek Kreczmar keynoted, and we had presentations from Regina Seiwald, Bruno de Paula, Pierre-Yves Hurel, Péter Kristóf Makai, Jakub Majewski, Aleksandra Mochocka, and Pedro Alejandro Tiscar
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The second half of the day followed on with our GOG.com panel (Piotr Gynp, Marcin Paczyński, Adam Ziółkowski, Jan Kremer), and presentations from Pierre-Yves Hurel, Giorgio Chiappa, Alan Meades, Kieran Nolan, Alex Wade, and Pei Lun Hsin. 2 more days to go! See you tomorrow! ➡️ history-of-games.com
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September 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The second half of the day followed on with our GOG.com panel (Piotr Gynp, Marcin Paczyński, Adam Ziółkowski, Jan Kremer), and presentations from Pierre-Yves Hurel, Giorgio Chiappa, Alan Meades, Kieran Nolan, Alex Wade, and Pei Lun Hsin. 2 more days to go! See you tomorrow! ➡️ history-of-games.com
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History of Games conference day 1 was a huge success! Sincere thanks to everyone for your involvement today - before lunch we had presentations from keynote Magdalena Cielecka, Emmanuel Vincenot, Jaroslav Švelch, Sophie Bélemans, Marcin Blanchard, Michał Jukiewicz, and Szymon Piotr Kukulak
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September 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
History of Games conference day 1 was a huge success! Sincere thanks to everyone for your involvement today - before lunch we had presentations from keynote Magdalena Cielecka, Emmanuel Vincenot, Jaroslav Švelch, Sophie Bélemans, Marcin Blanchard, Michał Jukiewicz, and Szymon Piotr Kukulak
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The 2025 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 international conference is fast approaching! Taking place 3rd, 4th and 5th of September in Kraków and also online - make sure to keep an eye on our Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/hist... - also for the full schedule, keynote details and more see www.history-of-games.com!
September 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The 2025 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 international conference is fast approaching! Taking place 3rd, 4th and 5th of September in Kraków and also online - make sure to keep an eye on our Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/hist... - also for the full schedule, keynote details and more see www.history-of-games.com!
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⭐ Important notice! ⭐ For those attending the 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 2025 conference in Kraków from 3-5 September as audience members (without presenting a talk) please note that admission is free, but 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 through the following link: www.konferencje-uj.pl/rejestracja/...
August 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
⭐ Important notice! ⭐ For those attending the 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 2025 conference in Kraków from 3-5 September as audience members (without presenting a talk) please note that admission is free, but 𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 through the following link: www.konferencje-uj.pl/rejestracja/...
The promotional trailer for my 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 AI machinima movie is now online at Vimeo ➡️ vimeo.com/1109134695. You can also find out more about the project here ➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...
August 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The promotional trailer for my 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 AI machinima movie is now online at Vimeo ➡️ vimeo.com/1109134695. You can also find out more about the project here ➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...
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𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿! 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 2025 late registration 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵, with options available to attend on-site in Kraków and online - please see www.history-of-games.com/2025-krakow for the registration link and the full schedule!
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August 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿! 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 2025 late registration 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵, with options available to attend on-site in Kraków and online - please see www.history-of-games.com/2025-krakow for the registration link and the full schedule!
My 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 AI machinima movie is going on the road to Belfast in 2026 as part of the RENDR Festival, which takes place 12-13 February. I'm super stoked to have my work included as part of the proceedings.
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August 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 AI machinima movie is going on the road to Belfast in 2026 as part of the RENDR Festival, which takes place 12-13 February. I'm super stoked to have my work included as part of the proceedings.
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We're thrilled to announce that the full schedule of top-notch research talks for 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 at Jagiellonian University, Kraków (3-5 Sep) is now online at ➡️ www.history-of-games.com/2025-krakow/ - both on-site and online registration options are available!
July 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We're thrilled to announce that the full schedule of top-notch research talks for 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 at Jagiellonian University, Kraków (3-5 Sep) is now online at ➡️ www.history-of-games.com/2025-krakow/ - both on-site and online registration options are available!