Dr Daniel Rourke
Daniel is a writer and artist researching digital materiality, media arts, and (critical) posthumanism.
Staff details
Position
Lecturer in Digital Media
Department
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
d.rourke (@gold.ac.uk)
Links
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Daniel is a writer and artist working on questions of digital materiality and critical post-humanism. He is currently working on a speculative writing project about large language models and aphantasia.
Daniel co-convenes the MA in Digital Media.
Academic qualifications
- Art PhD, Goldsmiths 2017
Teaching and supervision
Daniel has supervised MA & PhD dissertations and practice-based projects on a wide variety of topics relating to digital media, media arts, and the posthumanities. He is available to supervise PhDs on similar themes.
Research interests
Media arts, critical posthumanism, AI, digital materiality, the (digital) image, science and speculative fiction
Featured publications
2016:
The 3D Additivist Manifesto and Cookbook
The 3D Additivist Manifesto and Cookbook are considered key critical resources in the teaching of 3D fabrication, speculative design, and digital culture in fablabs, universities, and art institutions
Publications and research outputs
Article
- An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth Rourke, Daniel. 2013. An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth. Alluvium Journal, 2(6), ISSN 2050-1560
- Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito steyerl Rourke, Daniel. 2013. Falling into the Digital Divide: Encounters with the Work of Hito steyerl. Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, 40(5), pp. 19-22.
- The doctrine of the similar (GIF GIF GIF) Rourke, Daniel. 2012. The doctrine of the similar (GIF GIF GIF). Dandelion, 3(1), ISSN 2048-1322
Book
- The 3D Additivist Cookbook Rourke, Daniel and Allahyari, Morehshin. 2017. The 3D Additivist Cookbook. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. ISBN 9789492302106
Book Section
- The 3D Additivist Manifesto in 'Across & Beyond: Transmediale Reader' Allahyari, Morehshin and Rourke, Daniel. 2017. The 3D Additivist Manifesto in 'Across & Beyond: Transmediale Reader'. In: Ryan Bishop; Kristoffer Gansing; Jussi Parikka and Elvia Wilk, eds. Across and beyond: a transmediale reader on post-digital practices, concepts and institutions. Berlin: Sternberg Press/Transmediale eV. ISBN 9783956792892
- 'Maybe in the future we can show all of the things you have.' Kippleization and the Enclosure of the Hoard Rourke, Daniel. 2013. 'Maybe in the future we can show all of the things you have.' Kippleization and the Enclosure of the Hoard. In: Zoë Mendelson, ed. This Mess is a Place: A Collapsible Anthology of Collections and Clutter. London: And Publishing. ISBN 9781908452405
Digital
- Artifacts a Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke Rourke, Daniel. 2013. Artifacts a Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke.
Exhibition Catalogue
- Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk Rourke, Daniel. 2021. Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk.
Project
- The 3D Additivist Manifesto Rourke, Daniel and Allahyari, Morehshin. 2015. The 3D Additivist Manifesto.
Thesis
- The Practice of Posthumanism: Five Paradigmatic Figures for Human Mutation Rourke, Daniel. 2019. The Practice of Posthumanism: Five Paradigmatic Figures for Human Mutation. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
Writing and Art Practice
Daniel has worked with MetaMorf (Trondheim, 2024), Aksioma (Ljubljana, 2021), Arebyte Gallery (London + online, 2018), PICNIC Brasil (Rio, 2018), Photographer's Gallery (London 2018), Walk&Talk Azores (São Miguel, 2018), AND Festival (Peak District, 2017), The V&A (London, 2017), FACT (Liverpool, 2017), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2017), Transmediale (Berlin, 2016 + 2017), Tate Modern (London, 2016), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam, 2016 + 2017), Carnegie Mellon’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (Pittsburgh, 2015), DarAlHokoomeh Project (Iran, 2014), Carroll/Fletcher Gallery (London, 2014), The Wellcome Trust (London, 2013), AND Festival (Manchester, 2012), GLI.TC/H Fest (Chicago, 2012), as well as HOLO Magazine, Media-N, Alluvium, and AfterImage Journals. Daniel is also a contributor to Rhizome.org and Furtherfield.org.