Dr Kieran Nolan

Urban Spin Off AI anime preview and animated documentary snippet (2026) ➡️ vimeo.com/1167523533

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And our CfP is out!

History of Games 2026: The Ages of Games. Epochs and Periodisations

25-27th June, City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative

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Earlier today I delivered an online guest lecture for students for the special topics class 'Global Gaming and Society' at the School of Communication and Information at University of Hawaii a... Earlier today I delivered an online guest lecture for students for the special topics class 'Global Gaming and Society' at the School of Communication and Information at University of Hawaii at Manoa....

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A huge thank you to the Matricule Bis Festival for having 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 as part of the 2026 edition, more info at➡️ www.matriculebis3d.esadorleans.fr

For more on 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 please see➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...

I've updated my portfolio website at https://kierannolan.com for the New Year with details on my research and art projects, including news on upcoming screenings for my AI machinima movie 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨… |... I've updated my portfolio website at https://kierannolan.com for the New Year with details on my research and art projects, including news on upcoming screenings for my AI machinima movie 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 ...

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Interactivity Test 2 - Non-Existent Video Game Street Scene Glitch A quick test video navigating around another glitchy 3D gaussian splat capture. This takes a brief AI machinima scene from the Video Games That Don't Exist…

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When I work on projects I make video clips as a form of journaling, to timestamp the work, and also to share online. I've found that some of the most spur of the moment pieces of video documentati... When I work on projects I make video clips as a form of journaling, to timestamp the work, and also to share online. I've found that some of the most spur of the moment pieces of video documentation h...

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𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞!

𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
𝟮𝟱-𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲, 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮

The call for papers will go live in January 2026!

Keep an eye here and also on www.history-of-games.com/2026-hong-ko... for news and updates!

My 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 AI machinima movie will screen in Orléans, France at 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐬 𝟑𝐃, 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐮 𝐣𝐞𝐮 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞́𝐨 𝐞𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐞́𝐫𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬, 23-24/01/2026.

Full festival programme ➡️https://matriculebis3d.esadorleans.fr

𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 ➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...

First 'all Ireland university' as DkIT partners with QUB | Dr Kieran Nolan Huge news today with the announcement of the special partnership between Queen's University Belfast and Dundalk Institute of Technology that will see DkIT become a University College of QUB. This wil...

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The organisers of the Maxell AI art exhibition at Kuse ga Aru Art Studio in Kyoto sent me on some photographs from the finalist exhibition which ran from 19/10/25 to 03/11/25 - the gallery looks… | Dr... The organisers of the Maxell AI art exhibition at Kuse ga Aru Art Studio in Kyoto sent me on some photographs from the finalist exhibition which ran from 19/10/25 to 03/11/25 - the gallery looks reall...

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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🙏

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…

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...

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...

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 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...

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!

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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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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 🎓💻👾

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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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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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

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!