MachineMachine is the website of writer/artist and academic Daniel Rourke.
Bio
Dr. Daniel Rourke is originally from West Yorkshire, and lives and works in London.
In his work Daniel creates collaborative frameworks and theoretical toolsets for exploring the intersections of digital materiality, the arts, and (critical) post-humanism.
His writing, lecturing, and artistic profile is extensive, including work with 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.
Portfolio of work
Academic Career
Dr. Daniel Rourke is lecturer at Goldsmiths in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, where he co-convenes the MA in Digital Media.
Daniel completed his PhD in Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
His PhD – entitled ‘The Practice of Posthumanism‘ – mobilises a series of speculative figures to investigate arenas under which the self-effacement and subsequent renewal of humanism as post-humanism is taking place.
#Additivism
In March 2015 artist & activist Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel released The 3D Additivist Manifesto: a call to push technologies beyond their breaking point, into the realm of the provocative and the weird. The project was the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research, at Transmediale Berlin. The resulting 3D Additivist Cookbook – composed of the work of over 100 artists, designers and theorists – was published as a free 3D-PDF in 2016. The 3D Additivist Manifesto and Cookbook are now considered as key critical resources in the teaching of 3D fabrication, speculative design, and digital culture in fablabs, universities, and art institutions around the world.
See additivism.org/news for a detailed list of events
/Stream
The /stream section of this website archives what Daniel reads, writes, watches, thinks, researches, and does online, as part of a vague ongoing experiment in aggregation (since 2007). You can think of it as an interactive notebook and portfolio, designed for making connections and going astray.
