Presenter

Dr Kieran Nolan (b.1976) is an award-winning artist-researcher, indie-game designer, and academic from Cavan, Ireland. He is a lecturer in Creative Media at Dundalk Institute of Technology, and Co Director of DkIT’s Creative Arts Research Centre. Kieran’s interdisciplinary research explores the aesthetic, material, and connective properties of arcade videogame interfaces, through digital art, design critique, and platform histories. His teaching draws upon broad scholarship and industry experience in human-computer interaction, game development, creative coding, XR, physical computing, and visual communications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science specialising in Game Studies and Media Art from Trinity College Dublin.