Damien CHARRIERAS, 查柏亨

Areas of Research 1. Blockchain & Generative Cultures: Examines how blockchain, NFTs, and crypto reshape creative video games and media arts; leads research on decentralization and digital aesthetics. 2. Game Engines & Metacreation: Explores game engines as tools for spatial aesthetics, procedural creativity, and immersive art, bridging production and cultural mediation. 3. Technofutures & AI: Analyzes AI, cybernetics, and the metaverse from critical, philosophical, and aesthetic perspectives in art. 4. New Media Arts Practices: Documents new media artists’ creative practices and trajectories in Montreal and Hong Kong. 5. Music & Urban Media Cultures: Studies underground and experimental music scenes and place-based sonic creativity in Hong Kong, Brisbane, and Los Angeles. 6. Creative Education & Pedagogy: Develops innovative curricula on digital literacy, worldbuilding, and speculative design; promotes emerging tech in creative media education through Team-Based Learning. Areas of scholarly interest * cultural studies, cultural policy research, cultural sociology, urban media studies, creative industries, popular music studies * information sciences, interface studies, platform studies, infrastructure studies * critical new media studies, media theory, media ecology, sound studies * new materialism, process philosophy, radical empiricism, affective turn, creation as emergence, philosophy of technology

[2026] Crafting virtual cities: procedural generation of 3D urban environments with general-purpose game engines. Mirocha, L. & Charrieras, D., 2026, In: Digital Creativity. 37(3), p. 255-271. [2026] Hand-Rubbing: Frictional Innovation and Lo-Fi Communication against Sleek Capitalism. OU, Y. & Charrieras, D., Jun 2026. [2026] Tangible Grasp: A New Model for Experiential Learning with Intangible Technologies. Charrieras, D., OU, N. & Liu, Q., Jun 2026. 3 p. [2026] Traffic as Media: Interface Logics and Stratified Mobility in Greater Bay Area Metro Systems. OU, N. & Charrieras, D., Jul 2026. [2025] Imaginary Cities: A Lens to Study Music Cultures and Music-Making Practices in L.A. Urban Contexts. Darchen, S., Charrieras, D. & Willsteed, J., 2025, Underground Music Cultures and Music-Making i