Dr Kieran Nolan is a lecturer in Creative Media at Dundalk Institute of Technology and Co-Director of DkIT’s Creative Arts Research Centre. He holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin (School of Computer Science and Statistics, and Digital Arts and Humanities programmes), an MA in Learning and Teaching from DkIT, an MA in Interactive Media from the University of Limerick, a BDes (Hons) in Digital Media from LYIT / ATU Donegal.

Kieran’s multidisciplinary research explores the aesthetic, material, and connective properties of games, interfaces, and networked media, through digital art, design critique, and platform histories. His teaching draws upon broad scholarship and industry experience in interaction design, game development, VR and AR, creative coding, physical computing, and visual communications.

He is a Management Committee member representing Ireland on the EU COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) project Grassroots of Digital Europe: from Historic to Contemporary Cultures of Creative Computing. kierannolan.com