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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
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
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
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...
August 8, 2025 at 6:09 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...
July 24, 2025 at 3:50 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...
July 2, 2025 at 4:42 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
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
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
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
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