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🙏
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...
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...
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.
➡️ www.rendrfestival.com
➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...
➡️ www.rendrfestival.com
➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...
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.
➡️ www.rendrfestival.com
➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...
➡️ www.rendrfestival.com
➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...
I’m really glad to share that my ai machinima movie 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 will screen in Orléans, France 23/01/2026 to 31/01/2026 at the 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑠 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 organised by Orléans School of Art and Design ➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/kieran...
July 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’m really glad to share that my ai machinima movie 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 will screen in Orléans, France 23/01/2026 to 31/01/2026 at the 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑠 𝐹𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 organised by Orléans School of Art and Design ➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/kieran...
My AI machinima movie 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 will have 6 screenings between Oct 2025 and July 2026 as part of Machinim_ai, at the upcoming Dopamine digital arts exhibition at Le Cube Garges, in Garges-lès-Gonesse, Paris ➡️ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
July 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My AI machinima movie 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 will have 6 screenings between Oct 2025 and July 2026 as part of Machinim_ai, at the upcoming Dopamine digital arts exhibition at Le Cube Garges, in Garges-lès-Gonesse, Paris ➡️ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
I’ve updated my portfolio site with a page about my 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 AI machinima movie project ➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesthatdontexist
July 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I’ve updated my portfolio site with a page about my 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 AI machinima movie project ➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesthatdontexist
A test at converting an AI generated video scene into an immersive 3D environment. The interactivity adds more tangibility in a sense, but like a dream is still ungraspable, breaking into glitchy triangles when the viewer gets too close. More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/kieran...
July 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A test at converting an AI generated video scene into an immersive 3D environment. The interactivity adds more tangibility in a sense, but like a dream is still ungraspable, breaking into glitchy triangles when the viewer gets too close. More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/kieran...
June 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - Imagining if Honda commissioned artists and engineers from the fields of motorcycle design and video game creation to build a series of retro gaming inspired custom bikes -a new spin on portable gaming ➡️http://vimeo.com/1090885569 Edited together from clips made with OpenAI Sora
June 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - Imagining if Honda commissioned artists and engineers from the fields of motorcycle design and video game creation to build a series of retro gaming inspired custom bikes -a new spin on portable gaming ➡️http://vimeo.com/1090885569 Edited together from clips made with OpenAI Sora
Somehow, another game studies research paper of mine has materialised on Sci-Hub. This one is from CHI Play 2017 and is titled 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀. sci-hub.se/10.1145/3130...
May 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Somehow, another game studies research paper of mine has materialised on Sci-Hub. This one is from CHI Play 2017 and is titled 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀. sci-hub.se/10.1145/3130...
𝗨𝗻𝗼𝗯𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘂𝗺 - The holy grail of retro gaming is the most difficult game to find, if it ever existed... lots of so rare because they never existed video games with hallucinated branding in retro game shops, gallery spaces, and private collections vimeo.com/1087429508
May 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
𝗨𝗻𝗼𝗯𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘂𝗺 - The holy grail of retro gaming is the most difficult game to find, if it ever existed... lots of so rare because they never existed video games with hallucinated branding in retro game shops, gallery spaces, and private collections vimeo.com/1087429508
The inaugural DIGRA Ireland conference took place today at TU Dublin, it was a great success with a packed schedule of games research talks. I presented on my Video Games That Don't Exist project, including an intro to machinima & AI machinima, and process and outcomes so far of VGTDE
April 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The inaugural DIGRA Ireland conference took place today at TU Dublin, it was a great success with a packed schedule of games research talks. I presented on my Video Games That Don't Exist project, including an intro to machinima & AI machinima, and process and outcomes so far of VGTDE
Found a paywalled journal article of mine from 2021 on Sci-Hub. I don't mind seeing it there at all, glad if it expands the audience! You can download 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 here ➡️ www.sci-hub.se/downloads/20...
April 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Found a paywalled journal article of mine from 2021 on Sci-Hub. I don't mind seeing it there at all, glad if it expands the audience! You can download 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 here ➡️ www.sci-hub.se/downloads/20...
The in-game photography book 'Fotoludica. Fotografia e videogiochi tra arte e documentazione' edited by Matteo Bittanti & Marco De Mutiis is out now. I'm really proud to have my work in this edited collection with an esteemed crew of scholars and theorists milanmachinimafestival.org/fotoludica-b...
March 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The in-game photography book 'Fotoludica. Fotografia e videogiochi tra arte e documentazione' edited by Matteo Bittanti & Marco De Mutiis is out now. I'm really proud to have my work in this edited collection with an esteemed crew of scholars and theorists milanmachinimafestival.org/fotoludica-b...
The ‘Video Games That Don’t Exist’ world premier screens in LA 21/03/2025 for the Milan Machinima Festival's Game Engine Cinema program. Matteo Bittanti recently interviewed me about the process & ideas behind this project, read the full conversation here➡️ milanmachinimafestival.org/blog/2025/3/...
March 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The ‘Video Games That Don’t Exist’ world premier screens in LA 21/03/2025 for the Milan Machinima Festival's Game Engine Cinema program. Matteo Bittanti recently interviewed me about the process & ideas behind this project, read the full conversation here➡️ milanmachinimafestival.org/blog/2025/3/...
The 3rd Grassroots of Digital Europe Conference (13-14/3/25) @ Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade focused on the role of women and minorities in creative computing. More details here: ➡️ linkedin.com/posts/kieran... and at ➡️ costgrade.eu
March 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The 3rd Grassroots of Digital Europe Conference (13-14/3/25) @ Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade focused on the role of women and minorities in creative computing. More details here: ➡️ linkedin.com/posts/kieran... and at ➡️ costgrade.eu
Super stoked to share that Video Games That Don't Exist will screen in Los Angeles, California as part of the 2025 Milan Machinima Festival's Game Engine Cinema program on the 21/03/2025 ➡️ milanmachinimafestival.org/kieran-nolan. For the full MMF MMXVV schedule please see milanmachinimafestival.org
March 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Super stoked to share that Video Games That Don't Exist will screen in Los Angeles, California as part of the 2025 Milan Machinima Festival's Game Engine Cinema program on the 21/03/2025 ➡️ milanmachinimafestival.org/kieran-nolan. For the full MMF MMXVV schedule please see milanmachinimafestival.org
At ISCTE Instituto Universiatário de Lisboa for a workshop for the edited collection Histories and Cultures of Creative Computing in Europe (1970-2000): Silicon Dawn. Proud to be a co-editor of this book, featuring research by 41 authors from 16 countries costgrade.eu
February 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
At ISCTE Instituto Universiatário de Lisboa for a workshop for the edited collection Histories and Cultures of Creative Computing in Europe (1970-2000): Silicon Dawn. Proud to be a co-editor of this book, featuring research by 41 authors from 16 countries costgrade.eu
Broken physics and glitched out mayhem in a multiplayer open world e-sports game that doesn't exist, in part 8 of Games That Don't Exist. Generated from text prompts through the Sora AI. See more from the series on Vimeo at ➡️ vimeo.com/showcase/115...
February 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Broken physics and glitched out mayhem in a multiplayer open world e-sports game that doesn't exist, in part 8 of Games That Don't Exist. Generated from text prompts through the Sora AI. See more from the series on Vimeo at ➡️ vimeo.com/showcase/115...
YouTubers Who Don't Exist - part 7 of the Games That Don't Exist series introduces game streamers that were hallucinated into the videos by Sora without any prompting to do so, adding another layer of unreality ➡️ vimeo.com/1052553764
February 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
YouTubers Who Don't Exist - part 7 of the Games That Don't Exist series introduces game streamers that were hallucinated into the videos by Sora without any prompting to do so, adding another layer of unreality ➡️ vimeo.com/1052553764