I explore the efficacy of independent videogames as interactive/performative tools for understanding posthumanism and radical ecology through a post-disciplinary ‘praxis’ method, equal parts game development, media theory and contemporary philosophy.
I am interested in research exploring posthumanism, radical concepts of ecology, new materialism and particularly agential-realism, within the context of digital technology and videogames.
I have explored these ideas through a variety of different methods including philosophical enquiry, media archaeology, creative coding, game development and collaborative digital film-making.
Conference Proceeding
Teaching Interactive Digital Narrative Through Found Photography
McKeown C & MacDonald E (2023) Teaching Interactive Digital Narrative Through Found Photography. In: TBC. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 16th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Kobe, 11.11.2023-15.11.2023. Cham , Switzerland: Springer.
Book Chapter
Autobiographing our computing organs: Rereading past uses of Intel CPUs as xenotransplantation
McKeown C (2022) Autobiographing our computing organs: Rereading past uses of Intel CPUs as xenotransplantation. In: Lushetich N & Campbell I (eds.) Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies. Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society. London: Routledge, pp. 261-274. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003157021
Article
McKeown C (2021) "What kind of cop are you?": Disco Elysium's Technologies of the Self within the Posthuman Multiverse. Baltic Screen Media Review, 9 (1), pp. 68-79. https://doi.org/10.2478/bsmr-2021-0007
