Dr. Damien Charrieras

Biography

Dr Damien Charrieras is a new media theorist interested in tools and practices pertaining to the new media arts, electronic music, and video games. His papers were published in a large number of international academic journals, including Organized Sound (Cambridge) and Human Relations (Sage). His past project was a study of the hybrid trajectories and the dislocated spaces of creation of new media artists in Montreal. His work is situated in the current critical research on new media and he is especially interested in the potential value of process philosophy and radical empiricism to assess the emergence of new regimes of instrumentalities in creative practices. His work deals with topics such as the analog use of digital technologies in electronic music, metacreation in video games, the use of neural networks in game engines, incomputable data, the experimental appropriation of GUI in creative software, machinic vision in life log art. His current project investigates the diverse technologies used to conceive video games, especially game engines, from the perspective of media ecology and organology.

Research Interest

Computational Creativity and post-anthropocentric forms of creativity Creative software infrastructures and cloud computing Instruments and instrumentalities in New Media Arts Media Ecology New Materialism, Process Philosophy and Radical Empiricism Software Studies Sound Art and experimental music Theories of Contemporary Art and New Media Art (esp. lens-based media)