I recently hosted the GRADE Grassroots of Digital Europe conference at Dundalk Institute of Technology (costgrade.eu/dundalk) with Prof. Aphra Kerr. The 2 day research event included keynotes from game dev veteran Dr Steve Collins and award winning media artist Dr Winnie Soon
Last week I had the pleasure of hosting over 40 international visitors at Dundalk Institute of Technology for the GRADE Grassroots of Digital Europe…
Earlier this week I participated in 2 days of productive and insightful workshops for the EU COST action Grassroots of Digital Europe / GRADE (costgrade.eu) at Postane, Instanbul. Looking forward to welcoming everyone to Dundalk and Dundalk Institute or Technology for our GRADE event in June
Delighted to have my latest research article ‘A secret history of coin-operated games manufacturing in Ireland' published on RTÉ Brainstorm. It’s about the Irish factories set up in the late 1950s and early 1960s to make pinball, bowling and fruit machines www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The videos of the Fotoludica Conference on In-Game Photography at IULM University of Milan (14-15/03/24) are now online, including my talk on Graffiti Photography in and through Video Games (47 mins in vimeo.com/926816114) Big thanks to all involved 🙏milanmachinimafestival.org/fotoludica-program
The program for the First Italian Conference on In-Game Photography taking place at IULM University of Milan 14-15/03/2024 is now online: milanmachinimafestival.org/fotoludica-p.... I have a research presentation as part of it on Graffiti Photo Archiving in and Through Video Games. More news soon!
Had a great time demoing VR SuperGun: Installation Edition at the ACM #TEI2024#webxr#Quest3kierannolan.com/vrsupergun
Calling all game history researchers! A reminder that the Call for Papers for the 2024 History of Games International Conference at Birmingham City University (22nd-24th May) is open until Jan 22nd. This year's theme is 'Families of Games'. CFP details➡️ history-of-games.com/cfp-2024/
My ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Labs paper 'Reactive Visuals in P5.js with Custom Analog and Digital Inputs' is now a featured publication on ACM Kudos: link.growkudos.com/1e7qfe0x534
I was at Trinity College Dublin this week to present VR SuperGun at ICAT-EGVE 2023, the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. A great day had, many thanks to the organisers icat-egve-2023.orgkierannolan.com/vrsupergun
