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Kieran Nolan

Kieran Nolan is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and lecturer working across interactive art, games, and creative technologies. He is Co-Director of the Creative Arts Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT). His practice spans interactive art, game-based media, and digital visual culture, including AI-driven machinima, immersive networked XR, graffiti archiving in and through video games, and platform preservation. He is WG1 Lead for COST Action 21141 (Grassroots of Digital Europe) and Co-President of the History of Games International Conference. He is also co-editor of the upcoming collected edition Silicon Dawn: Histories and Cultures of Creative Computing in Europe (1970-2000) (De Gruyter Brill, 2026).

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