Dr. Daniel Binns
Details
College: School of Media & Communication
Department: School - Media & Communication
Campus: City Campus Australia
daniel.binns@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-1890-8864
About
Dr. Daniel Binns is Senior Lecturer in Media at RMIT University. Daniel is a tinkerer-theorist exploring technology’s impact on storytelling and media cultures. A leading scholar on digital creativity and media transformation, he has published on Netflix documentary style, drones, game engines, and the evolution of media genres including the war film and superhero media; his two monographs to date are The Hollywood War Film (2017) and Material Media-Making in the Digital Age (2021). He leads creative media practice-theory studios on storytelling, creative technologies, and media philosophy.
Daniel sits on the Editorial Boards for New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film and Frames Cinema Journal. He is an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and Membre Associé at Laboratoire Paragraphe, Université Paris 8.
Daniel is presently developing a critical-creative approach to generative systems, including generative AI. Other areas of interest include:
- media archaeologies and histories of digital culture;
- the rise of productivity media/influencers as a by-product of toxic hyper-capitalist ideology;
- alternative/unconventional theories, practices, and histories of computers and other creative technologies.
Daniel served as Program Director and Studios Coordinator for the Bachelor of Communication (Media) between 2017 and 2023.
Research fields
- 4701 Communication and media studies
- 4702 Cultural studies
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 3606 Visual arts
- 4303 Historical studies
- 4408 Political science
Supervisor projects
- An AI Between Us: Toward a Social Ontology of Human-AI Co-Creation
- 17 Sep 2026
- Deconstructing AI Companionship, Loneliness, and the Breakdown of Social Relations in Post-Cyberpunk Cinema
- 6 Dec 2024
- Baghdadi Street Life ( ﺑﻐﺪادي ﺷﺎرع ﺣﯿﺎة ): Using I-Doc Practice to Challenge Stereotypes of Iraq and Iraqis in Hollywood Cinema
- 17 Jul 2023
- Autonomy and Time
- 6 Jul 2023
- Tending to the Ordinary: Refocusing on Everyday Objects through New Materialism
- 26 Jun 2023
- Throw Away the Container: Cybertext Mechanics in Film Practice and Theory
- 19 Jun 2023
- Fragments and Flows: Writing the Digital Ocean
- 12 Jun 2023
- Post-Cinematic Remediation: Translations and Imbrications in 21st-Century Media
- 12 Oct 2020
- The Making of the Nick: Designing a Systematic Approach for the Chaotic Practice of Micro-Budget Short Filmmaking
- 1 May 2018
- Looking into the Rising Sun: South Korean Cinema’s Japan Cycle of the Park Geun-hye Era
- 1 Mar 2017
- Unlock the Doc! i-Docs and networks of inquiry
- 8 May 2015
Teaching interests
Daniel teaches into undergraduate and postgraduate Media, coordinating core courses and running praxical studios on media histories, cross-platform production, and creative technologies including videogame engines, creative coding, and generative AI.
Research interests
Creative technology; AI and creativity; screen and media cultures; media/cinema theory and philosophy; cross-platform storytelling and transmedia studies; digital/internet history and theory.
Daniel supervises PhD and Masters projects on genre cinema, film histories and technologies, media philosophy, and creative practice research. Daniel ran the eco_media symposium from 2019-2022, and the Re/Framing AI network and events from 2024-5.
