+Exhibitions & Conferences, doctoral supervision, funding
Publications (book chapters & academic papers)
Dare, Eleanor, Papadaki, Elena (2025- 2026) co edited ‘Arts Journal’ special edition: Arts From Craft to Code and Back Again: Rethinking Art, Materiality and Exhibition Practices in the 21st Century. Due 2026 :https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/RX5X85G706
Yamada-Rice, D. & Dare, E. (2026 forthcoming book) X||dinary Methodologies and Methods: Radical research using hybrid arts practices, Palgrave Social Sciences
Dare, Eleanor (forthcoming book chapter, 2026) ‘Sustainability, Smart Cities and the European University’ , Emerald Books. Editor Susan Flynn, my chapter: Worldbuilding with comic strips as a low tech intervention to counter extractive ideologies of ‘smartness’.
Dare, Eleanor (2025 ) ‘Eruptive approaches to developing critical understanding of machine learning imaginaries’ chapter in Eruptive Research: Changing Landscapes On Research in Teaching and Learning. Editors Pamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay Brill Sense.
Dylan Yamada-Rice and Eleanor Dare (2025)Digital Eco Pedagogies: Producing videogames with children for playing and telling stories about future landscapes with trees. eco-pedagogies special issue edited by Vic de Rijke and Jane Osgood, Global Studies of Childhood
Dare in Sylvaggio et al (2025) Agh, Models for making Distance, has a section on my AI Forensics research into Carceral Diffusion https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/call-for-writing-models-for-making
Yamada-Rice, D., Dare, E., Love, S., Main, A., Nash, R. & Potter, J. (2024) Exploring Children’s Attitudes towards Digital Good/Bad through hybrid arts practices. Published
online at: https://digitalgood.net/
Dare, E. & Yamada-Rice, D. (2024) In the future we will make our own superheroes’: Reflections on the Future of Broadcast for Children Aged 7-11, Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education, 4th EAI International Conference, TIE 2023 Cambridge, UK, September 27–28, 2023
Proceedings, Edited by David Crawford, Jeremy Foss, Nicholas Lambert, Martin Reed, Jennah Kriebel, Springer.
Eleanor Dare(2024)’Post Qualitative Virtuality: assembling reality as new material for teaching and learning’, in Ethical Considerations of Virtual Reality in the College Classroom Edited by Melody Bowdon, Kevin Yee, William Dorner, Routledge.
Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan (2023) ‘The Future of Broadcast Media According to Kids’, Children’s Media Year Book 2023. BBC story about the project :https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/xrstories/
Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan (2023) ‘Queer Psycho and The HE Circus: Applying Queering, Magic and More-than-human Theories to Immersive Visual Story Worlds as an Antidote to Late Capitalism’, Presence: Virtual and Augmented Reality, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Dare, Eleanor (2023) “Memories of the Cruel Radiance: the lost art of autopathography,” chapter in the Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography” Edited by Mark Ingham et al, IGI Press.
Eleanor Dare (2023) ‘In the Deep Water: envisioning a contingent city of the future/past and the tools to do so’, Urban Futures, edited by Susan Flynn and Richard Hayes, Emerald Books.
Dare, Eleanor, Antonopoulou, Alexandra, (2022) ‘The image of collaboration: mediation and enervation under lockdown’, in The visual culture of a virus, A special issue on the visual representation of covid-19, Edited by Lee Weinberg and Phaedra Shanbaum, Taylor & Francis https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973762.2021.1989910#.YfA2XByDLpk.twitter
Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan, Rodrigues, Deborah (2022) Reading the cards: Tarot as an epistemological repositioning to defend against the neoliberal structures of Art Education in Biased AI: Algorithms and Society, edited by Michael Filimowicz (‘the Editor’), Routledge.
Dare, Eleanor, Antonopoulou, Alexandra (2022) ‘The Riverine Archive: Nausea and information loss on the neoliberal ship of fools’, Special Issue of Visual Communication , Information is Ugly, Guest Editors: Shelley James, Grace Pappas, John Fass and Dylan Yamada-Rice, London, Sage.
Dare, Eleanor, (2022) ‘Impersonal Computing: from Art School to Business Hub in four decades’, in Digital Totalitarianism: Algorithms and Society, edited by Michael Filimowicz (‘the Editor’), Routledge.
Dare, Eleanor, Antonopoulou, Alexandra, Menotti (editor) (2022) Museu Sem Paredes (Museum Without Walls), The Riverine Archive, Catalogue.
Dare, Eleanor (2021)’The materiality of symbolic language: Gold of the Great Steppe’, Adamdar.ca, https://adamdar.ca/en/post/the-materiality-of-symbolic-language-gold-of-the-great-steppe
Dare, Eleanor (2021) Locked down in the neoliberal Smart City: A-systemic technologies in crisis. Chapter: in Equality in the City, Intellect Books (editor Susan Flynn).
Dare, Eleanor (2021) ‘Rear Psycho: Hitchcock’s horror language mediated by AI.’ in Language Games, Edited by Hannah Lammin and Sheena Calvert. Cambridge, MA: Leonardo, MIT Press.
Dare, Eleanor (2021) ‘America Competes: STEM, STEAM, Design Thinking and corporate pedagogy as epistemic nationalism’, The Post-Pandemic University, https://postpandemicuniversity.net/2021/08/15/america-competes-stem-steam-design-thinking-and-corporate-pedagogy-as-epistemic-nationalism/
Dare, Eleanor (May 2021) ‘Covidpreneurism: AI Cold Wars in the Covid-19 End Days’, in ACM Interactions, Making Breaking Interactions, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)DOI: .https://doi.org/10.1145/3459101.
Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis (editors) (2021) Capitalism’s Deadly Threat: transform! ‘Exercises in Exorcism, Ways of Healing (through) Art Education’, Eleni Ikon, Cecilia Wee, Eleanor Dare, Matt Lewis, Kevin Biderman, Laura Gordon, Joseph Pochodzaj, Dylan Yamada-Rice, London, Merlin Press.
Dare, E., Potter, J., Nash., R, Yamada-Rice, D., Main, A. (2021) Critically Exploring Coproduction, Qualitative Research Journal.
Eleanor Dare (2021) ‘Online Learning Platforms and the Confessional Subject’, Architecture and Culture, 26th February 2021.
Eleanor Dare, Special edition of Performance Research Vol. 26.5. (2021), Diffracting Virtual Realities: towards an A-effected VR in On Diffraction. Annouchka Bayley (editor).
Dare, Eleanor (2021) ‘Rendlesham 360’, in Conference Proceedings for DRHA 2019 “Radical Immersions”, edited by Elena Papdaki, British Library Cataloguing inpublication data ISBN: PB: 9780900822124
Dare, Eleanor (2020) Journal Article, Teaching Machines: Platforms, pedagogies and the wicked problem of design thinking The Post-Pandemic University [online], available at: https://postpandemicuniversity.net/2020/07/29/teaching-machines- platformspedagogies-and-the-wicked-problem-of-design-thinking/
Yamada-Rice, Dylan, Dare, Eleanor and Main, Angus (2020) Printed Publication, Location-based Virtual Reality experiences for children: Japan-UK knowledge exchange network final project report, available at: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/4401/1/UKJapan%20final%20project%20report.pdf
Dare, E., Papadaki, E. (2020) ISEA2020 proceedings, ‘Mycorrhizal Curation: minimal cognition for maximal cooperation’https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/4331/
Dare, E. (2019) ‘Power Postures And Landing Pages, The Long-Tail Of Neoliberalism’ Discover Society (68), 1-16. https://archive.discoversociety.org/2019/05/01/power-postures-and-landing-pages-the-long-tail-of-neoliberalism/
Yamada-Rice, D., Dare, E., Main, A., Potter, J. and Love, S. (2019), ‘Location-based Virtual Reality Experiences for Children: Japan-UK knowledge exchange network: Tokyo Workshop’, Tokyo, Japan, 24–28 June 2019.
Dare, E. (2019) Monograph, Art Fair Innovations in Shanghai & London Project Report, London (RCA).
Dare, E. (2019) ‘The Upper Ontology of the World’, in: I scared my Computer, London: RCA SU.
Dare, E. (2019) ‘Turpin’s Cave: choice and deception in a virtual realm’, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 15 (1). 0-11.
Dare, E. (2018) ‘AI/VR: situated animation in the Library of Babel’ IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph, 24 (4).
Dare, E. (2018) ‘Out of the Humanist Matrix: Learning taxonomies beyond Bloom’ Spark: UAL Creative Teaching and Learning Journal.
Dare. E. & Antonopoulou, A. (2016) ‘Emerging Forms of Collaboration: Communities of Practice Online through Networked Fictions, Dreams and Stories’, Chapter in: Kok, A. and Lee, H. (eds) Cultural, Behavioral, and Social Considerations in Electronic Collaboration, IGI publishers.
Dare. E. & Papadaki, E. (2016) ‘Bare nothingness – situated subjects in embodied artist’s systems’, In: Deliyannis, I., Kostagiolas, P. and Banou, C. (eds) Chapter in Experimental Multimedia Systems for Interactivity and Strategic Innovations, IGI publishers.
Aslam, S. and Dare, E. (2015) ‘Skype, code and shouting: a digitally mediated drama between Egypt and Scotland’, Leonardo, (48), 3. London: MIT Press.
Dare, E. (2014)’Burning Down Memory’, Cities Methodologies 2014: Buildings on fire: Towards a new approach to urban memory, Slade Research Centre, UCL, UK.
Dare, E. (2013) ‘Blood-Sugar Roulette: a case study of bio-geometric body-art’, Media- N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, 0 (1). Media-N.
Dare, E., Antonopoulou, A. (2013) Proceedings of the ISEA International Festival of Electronic Art, Sydney 2013′, “The Digital Dreamhacker:Crowdsourcing the dream imaginary”, with Alexandra Antonopoulou.
Dare, E. (2012) ‘Black Boxes and God-Tricks: an Account of Using Medical Imaging Systems to Photograph Consciousness in the Context of a Digital Arts Practice’, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 18 (3), 60-71. London: MIT Press.
Antonopoulou, A. and Dare, E. (2012) ‘Phi Territories, Neighbourhoods of Collaboration and Participation’, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 5 (1). Intellect Books.
Dare, E., Weinberg, Lee (2011) Proceedings of ISEA2011 Istanbul the International Festival of New Media, Electronic and Digital Arts. ‘VAINS, the Visual Art Navigation and Interrogation System’.
Dare, E. (2011) ‘Post-Desktop Publishing: An interactive book for an era of ubiquitous digitality’, International Journal of the Book, 8 (1). Common Ground Research Networks.
Dare, E. and Weinberg, L. (2011) ‘Algorithms for Social Curation’, Body Space and Technology Journal, 11. Brunel University, London.
Dare, E. (2011–2012) ‘Figure and Ground, the body as a locus of narrative and knowing’, GLITS–e English and Comparative Literature Journal. Goldsmiths, University of London.
Books
Yamada-Rice, D. & Dare, E. (2026 forthcoming) X||dinary Methodologies and Methods: Radical research using hybrid arts practices, Book, Palgrave Social Sciences
Craft, B., Dare, E. (2012) Physical Computing at Goldsmiths, Lulu, Book, https://www.lulu.com/shop/brock-craft-and-eleanor-dare/physicalcomputing/ paperback/product-20335925.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Artist’s’ Books
Dare, Eleanor (2010) South: a Psychometric Text Adventure, Lulu Books Dare, Eleanor (2011) Anhedonia, Lulu Books
Dare, Eleanor (2011) Noisemedia: public static void main(String[] args) {} Lulu Books. Dare, Eleanor (2007) Noisemedia Book V FRACTAL EDITION, Lulu Books
Dare, Eleanor (2007) CCTV City, Lulu Books Dare, Eleanor (2011) Road, Lulu Books.
Dare, Eleanor (2011) The Bumper Book of Noisemedia, Lulu Books. Dare, Eleanor (2007) Randomness, Lulu Books.
Dare, Eleanor, Antonopoulou, Alexandra (2008)The Phi Books, Book I, Book II. Single edition.
Exhibitions/Works [see pictures here]
Dare, Eleanor (2026) Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursary, creating gifs representing medieval and contemporary imaginaries of intelligence.
Dare, Eleanor (2026) Royal Drawing School, end of year show for the Online Drawing Development Year 2025, February 2026, Royal Drawing School, 19-22 Charlotte Road, London, EC2A 3SG, Thursday 5th February – Saturday 21st February Private view on Thursday the 5th February
21st March, 2-4 pm, 2025, Drawing Cancer, Cambridge Festival workshop led by me, also includes discussion of AI Forensics and my drawing practice, https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/drawing-cancer
4-6 December, 2024, Hacking Visual Culture, Hosted by The University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Dare exhibited 3 artist’s books from the AI Forensics Project containing images generated with Machine Learning of synthetic pizzas, celebrities and mugshots, the books act as flip books animating the algorithmic process of image generation.
A celebration of the composer Holst in the Immersive Vision Theatre, University of Plymouth, included my Roblox experience, ‘Holst Spaceship Earth – Transit of Venus’ (December, 4th, 2024).
Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan (September 2024) Let’s Create! Transit of Venus/Spaceship Earth, Roblox game space and workshops part of a celebration of Holst’s 150th Anniversary, led by James Edward Marks. Arts Council of England. The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham.
Dare, E. (8—12 July 2024) Spatial ideology and speculative spaces for critical education and performance. Keynote speaker. The 4th International Conference of Possibility Studies, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK. Week long worldbuilding installation.
Dare, Eleanor (2024) Experimental Worldbuilding: for large Image Data Sets and the question of Interpretability, a Roblox Installation, MozFest Amsterdam, https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/art-and-media
Big Telly Theatre Company, Rear Windows (2023)(Theatre Production) devised by myself and Dylan Yamada-Rice in collaboration with Big Telly Theatre company, funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 5 performances over the 4th and 5th November 2023.
Dare, E. (2023) Monstrous, part of AI-Musement Park, MozFestHouse, Amsterdam, online installation and performance, June 19th 2023.
Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan(2023) Babel, June 2nd Rich Mix, Sci Fi London/Hackstock, installation and participatory AR interactive sculpture: https://sci-fi-london.com/2023-hackstock/
in Wang, Jing [director) (2022)Machine Learning projections as part of ‘Copenhagen in Rehersal, a Digital Diffractive Perfomance’ of Michael Frayn’s play, Copenhagen at St John’s College, Cambridge, 9-12th December 2022: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Am9SahQPhxf3Iz2Dnb9fOw
Dare, E. (2022-23) AI-Musement Park, project lead for MozFest, online installation, https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/youre-invited-to-build-trustworthy-ai-with-mozfest/
Dare, E. (2022-23) Monstrous, performance for MozFest, https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/youre-invited-to-build-trustworthy-ai-with-mozfest/ part of AI-Musement Park.
Dare, E. (2022) Storytelling app (to augment the Bussing Out installation),Theatre in the Mill, https://theatreinthemill.com/bussing-out/
Dare, E. (2022) ‘Locked out of the neoliberal Smart City: a-systemic technologies in crisis? A WebVR (Mozilla Hubs) installation for The Smartification of Everything — A Symposium and Exhibition connecting diverse Fields and Media, University of Ottawa.
The Riverine Archive (2021) Dare & Anotonopoulou, Museu de Arte do Espírito Santo Dionísio del Santo – Maes. https://www.museusemparedes.com/en/riverine-archive-2/
Dare, E. (2019) Empathy for the Devil in Fast Forward to the Analogue: Vintage Immersions, University of Greenwich Galleries, Project Space.
APPROXIMATELY 800cm3 OF PLA (2018) Group show. Phi Object, Dare & Anotonopoulou, University of Wisconsin, USA.
Dare, E. (2017) Queer Society RCA, RCA Battersea Gallery, VR work -‘My past has not happened yet but it interferes with my present’.
Dare, E. (2014) Cities Methodologies Buildings on fire: Towards a new approach to urban memory, ‘Burning down memory’ , Slade Research Centre, UCL, UK.
Keiichi Matsuda (2012) Prism Project, London Design Festival (2012) V&A Museum, London, UK. Collaborative project.
Dare & Anotonopoulou (2012) Phi Books Digital Futures & Digital Design. V&A, Sackler Centre.
Springtime (2012). Directed by Shabina Aslam, Produced by Ankur Theatre Productions [Tron Theatre, Glasgow, UK]. Created a set of computer games to help actors originate characters.
The Olympics of the Everyday (2012). Produced by Shabina Aslam, Ankur Theatre Productions, Glasgow. Technology Artist for the project.
Dare, E. (2011) ‘Tensers and detensers; lost memories and embodied traces’. Media and the Senses, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Sounds Like Graffiti (2010)Directed by Shabina Aslam. Heuristic tools for generating writing, were used in workshops to help the participants generate material for this project. Designed and edited a prototype recording system and edited a book to accompany the project.
Dare. E. & Antonopoulou, A. (2009) Berlin, Freie Universität, Graduiertenkolleg “InterArt” International Research Training Group “Interart Studies”, exhibited our artists’ books and an installation.
Conferences/Keynotes and Workshops
Dare, Eleanor (2026) Creating Medieval GIFs, Cambridge Festival 2026. 9am-12pm, workshop and artist’s talk as part of my artist’s bursary from the Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursary, co-creating gifs representing medieval and contemporary imaginaries of intelligence. .
Dare, Eleanor (2026) Data School Taster Workshop, Cambridge Festival 2026, 1230-3:30. Critical Creative Data Visualisation.
Dare, Eleanor (2026) Keynote. Royal Academy of Art, The Hague [12 pm UK time, 1300 The Hague], organised by the Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design (MAFAD) at the Royal Academy of Art. Knowledge Beyond Compression: Slime Mold, Latent Variables, AI Research, and Analogue Drawing
Dare, Eleanor and all AI Forensics researchers (2025)Interpreting Intelligent Machines, AI and the Society of the Future, Xplanatarium Herrenhausen & online, 2-3rd July 2025, my talk is ‘AI Forensics: Worldbuilding rather than ‘benchmarking?’ https://ai-forensics.github.io/
Dare, Eleanor (July 17th, 2025) Thurs 17 July, Critical Pedagogy and Arts Based research: AI-Forensics, synthetic images and the future of creative education, Jesus College, Cambridge, Intellectual Forum.
Dare, Eleanor (July 8th) AI Forensics, workshop and talk for the 2025 International Summer Program, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University.
Dare, Eleanor (June 17th, 2025) AI Forensics, critical non tools for interrogating image data sets, in ‘Collaboration beyond Boundaries
Co-obrachadh thar Chrìoch’, 17 – 18 June 2025 University of Glasgow & Online: https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2025-annual-event/2025-annual-event-programme/
Dare, Eleanor (June 17th, 2025) in-person Worldbuilding workshop at The University of Cambridge, Emerging Flora Exhibition, Judith E. Wilson Theatre Space.
Dare, Eleanor (May 23rd, 2025) in-person workshop at The University of Cambridge, funded by the Judith E. Wilson fund, entitled “Queering Realities: Augmented Reality, Live Cinema, and Digital Transfemininity” . More info here: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archives/9450
Dare, Eleanor (16th May 2025)online talk and workshop for Regenerative AI at the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology, Avans University of Applied Sciences
Dare, Eleanor (2025) Workshop: Learn Photogrammetry and AR, Digital Humanities in Practice, Glasgow University, Critical AR workshop, April 28th, 2025
Dare, Eleanor (2025) Guest Presentation for Seminar Series on AI in Education, Bangladesh, my talk ‘Colonial Pyramid Scams: how and why AI and Education are at the cutting edge of con artistry’ was for educators, students and policy makers, in collaboration with University of Manchester (UoM), University of Dhaka (DU), Noakhali University of Science and Technology (NSTU), University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) and Aspire to Innovate (a2i).
Dare, Eleanor (2024) Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context, conference, University of Virginia, December 6th 2024.
Dare, Eleanor (2024) AI Forensics: drawing, worlding, listening to images, i-DAT, University of Plymouth, talk and workshop.
Dare, Eleanor (2024) Worldbuilding as a Method and Methodology Cambridge Creative Research Conference 2024,https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/events/creative-cambridge-2024/
Dare, E. (8—12 July 2024) Spatial ideology and speculative spaces for critical education and performance. Keynote speaker. The 4th International Conference of Possibility Studies, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Dare, Eleanor (2024) Lecture/Workshop, ‘Critical Pedagogy and Arts Based research: AI-Forensics, Synthetic Images and the Future of Creative Education’, June 10th, Jesus College, Cambridge, Intellectual Forum.
Dare, E., Yamada-Rice, D. (2024) Accidents, games and jokes : engaging [critically] with emerging and older technologies for entangled storytelling/playing, Entangled Futures, University of Cambridge, St John’s College: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accidents-games-and-jokes-tickets-902319751667?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1
Dare, E., Yamada-Rice, D., Seaton, Z. (2023)Belfast International Arts Festival, talk on AI and Creativity, 28th October 2023: https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873650756?_ga=2.180095522.706119328.1697897069-239429491.1697897069
Dare, E. (2023) speaker at ESRC Digital Good project, series of talks, Exploring children’s attitudes towards notions of the digital good through hybrid arts practice, online, 13/10/2023
Dare, E. & Yamada-Rice, D. (2023) The Future of Broadcast for children age 7-11, at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 27th-28th September as part of the EAI TIE 2023 conference: https://educateinnovate.eai-conferences.org/2023/
Dare, Eleanor , Wang Thomas Jing, Cao Ariel, Jiahe Lin (2023) ‘AI-Musement: An online social platform for interrogating Artificial Intelligence as social-political material’, RISE UP: Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability in Education, 20th Annual Kaleidoscope Conference at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. 01st June 2023
Dare, E. & Yamada-Rice, D. (2023)The Future of Broadcast for 7-11 year olds’, ‘Children’s Media Conference, 2023, Sheffield Technology Parks :https://www.thechildrensmediaconference.com/on-demand/the-future-of-broadcast-for-7-11-year-olds/
Dare, E. (2023) ‘Post Qualitative Virtuality: assembling reality as new material for teaching and learning’, at the 9th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN2023), California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA https://www.immersivelrn.org/ilrn2023/home-ilrn2023/
Dare, E. & Yamada-Rice, D. (2023) Cambridge Queer Studies Conference, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. ‘Queer Psycho and HE Circus: Applying Queering, Magic, and More-than-Human Theories to Immersive Visual Story Worlds as an Antidote to Late Capitalism ‘, 13th May 2023.
Dare, E. (2023) Remote Sensing, 2023, Speakers: Dr Eleanor Dare, Dr Sheena Calvert, Marius Simkus. Camberwell School of Art, April 13th 2023:https://theaoi.com/event/remote-sensing-2023/
Dare, E. & Yamada-Rice, D. (2023) The Future is Northern: Skills and Training Conference, Speakers, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-is-northern-skills-and-training-conference-tickets-457091562167, 2nd March 2023. XRstories.
Don’t Starve Together with Uma Breakdown and Eleanor Dare (2022), Saturday 10 December. 4pm GMT / 5pm CET. Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK, and simultaneously screened at Etc. gallery, Prague, Czech Republic as part of the exhibition Earthly Survival. https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/dont-starve-together-with-uma-breakdown-and-eleanor-dare
Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan (2022) Critical Chatbots, Tarot, and Drawing as an Epistemological Repositioning to Defend against the Neoliberal Structures of Art Education ELIA Biennial 2022, Helsinki, Finland. European League of Institutes of the Arts. Friday 25 November 9:00 – 11:00 (Helsinki Time)
Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan (2022) Key Note, Equity and the Immersive Lab _ Polygon by polygon, how do we build an equitable world? Research Through Design Group, Kingston School of Art, June 22nd, 2022.
Dare, Eleanor, Bayley, Annouchka (2022) Fractal writing: recursive propositions for creative pedagogy and power structures, Kaleidoscope, The Power of Storytelling in Education: Perspectives and Positionality 2022, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, May 2022 :https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/events/conferences/kaleidoscope2022/
Dare, Eleanor, Wang, Jing, Linjun Wu, Shufan Zhang, Lena (Y)Lan (2022)Diffracting Brecht’s Life of Galileo, a virtual reality presentation confronting liminal pedagogy, Kaleidoscope, The Power of Storytelling in Education: Perspectives and Positionality 2022, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, May 2022 :https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/events/conferences/kaleidoscope2022/
Dare, Eleanor (2022) Queer Psycho: arts-based research and immersive visual storytelling. Seminar on the 6th April 2022, UCL, info here:https://practiceasresearch.nicole-brown.co.uk/immersive-visual-storytelling/
Dare, Eleanor (2022) ‘Locked out of the neoliberal Smart City: a-systemic technologies in crisis?A WebVR (Mozilla Hubs) installation and hands-on workshop’, The Smartification of Everything — A Symposium and Exhibition connecting diverse Fields and Media, https://www.4sonline.org/the-smartification-of-everything-a-symposium-and-exhibition-connecting-diverse-fields-and-media/
Dare, Eleanor, Ramanathan, Rathna, Simmons, Tom and Pochodzaj, Joseph (2022) Crafting Futures: Dismantling and rebuilding histories together, The Craft History Workshop:https://crafthistoryworkshop.com/
Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan (2022) Key Note. Leeds Beckett Symposium – Wed 30th March 2022, Magic, Illusion & VR https://screen-network.org.uk/event/connecting-screens-research-symposium/
Dare, Eleanor, Amaro, Ramon (2021) Intelligent machines and their limitations, MA/UX Symposium, LCC, December 7th, 2021. Being Here: Materialising Experiences:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postgraduate-showcase-2021-being-here-materialising-experiences-tickets-213698356537
Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan (2021) Immersive Storytelling Symposium: Opportunities for Innovation, Nottingham University:http://commlist.org/archive/calls/2021-all/msg00650.html
Dare, Eleanor, Ramanathan, Rathna, Simmons, Tom and Pochodzaj, Joseph (2021)’ Local-global Knowledge: who gets to define the future of craft?’ in the session Re- Crafting the Local/Global Relationship. Making Futures, Plymouth, https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/posts/making-futures-2021-call-for-contributions
Dare, Eleanor (2021) ‘The Resilient Undead: welcome to the creepy tree house of Higher Education’, THE 24TH ACM CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK AND SOCIAL COMPUTING, X University https://arttechworkshop.square.site/ https://cscw.acm.org/2021/
Dare, Eleanor, Antonopoulou, Alexandra (2021) ‘Expanded Critical Animersion: A locked-down experience of collaborative, Oulipian animation and textuality’, 12th September 2021, Synaesthetic Syntax II : Seeing Sound / Hearing Vision, Expanded Animation symposium for Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
Dare, Eleanor (2021) Workshops on critical creative coding for digital artworks and virtual spaces, part of “Unfolding: From Ideas into Practice” a series of workshops and talks, that engage emerging artists in a conversation about how to translate their ideas into practice, the Ria Keburia Foundation, July 13th,, 15th, 20th, 22nd, 2021.
Dare, Eleanor and Antonopoulou, Alexandra (2021) Virtual places for critical immersion and collaborative knowledge, 28th May 2021, Museum without Walls: Museu Sem Paredes:https://www.facebook.com/museusemparedes/?fref=tag
Dare, Eleanor (2021) Learning at the Edges, Postgraduate Symposium, ‘Articulating Creativity and Technology – an Emerging Pedagogy’, Ravensbourne, 8th April, 2021.
Dare, Eleanor (2020) ‘Teaching Machines: platforms, pedagogies and the wicked problem of design thinking’, at Building the Post-Pandemic University, Cambridge University, 18 Sep 2020.
Dare, Eleanor and Antonopoulou, Alexandra (2020) ‘Non-immersive media : collaborating in an ‘immertical’ Virtual world’ at Besides the Screen 2020, Porto, (now Online), 24-July-2020.
Dare, Eleanor, Ramanathan, Rathna, Simmons, Tom and Pochodzaj, Joseph (2020) 26th June, Conference or Workshop, ‘Mediating tacit knowledges: a visual and sonic essay’ at UNCONFERENCE 2020, Reading (Virtual), 26 June 2020.
Dare, Eleanor and Papadaki, Elena (2020) ‘Mycorrhizal Curation: minimal cognition for maximal cooperation’ at ISEA2020 International Symposium on Electronic Art, Montreal, 13-18 Oct 2020.
Dare, Eleanor and Lewis, Matt (2019) Conference or Workshop, The Other Voice, RCA MA Digital Direction Elective with the British Library Oral History Collection at Oral History Society Regional Network Event, London, 23-11-2019.
Dare, Eleanor and Simmons, Tom (2019) Conference or Workshop, RCA Crafting Futures Research Project, Panel Discussion: Crafting Futures in Central Asia countries. Opportunities and Challenges. at British Council, Crafting Futures, Central Asia and South Caucasus Crafts Networking Forum, Tblisi, Georgia, 07-Nov-2019.
Dare, E. (2019) ‘Radical Immersions: Navigating between virtual/physical environments and information bubbles’, Rendlesham 360 at Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA 2019). London, 9 September 2019.
Dare, E. (2019) ‘The Upper Ontology of the World part 2, considering Zuboff (2019) & McQuillan (2017)’, Postdisciplinary Epistemologies. London, 7 June 2019.
Dare, E. (2019) ‘Empathy for the Devil: inside the headset with Norman Bates’, Virtual Realities and Alterities. London, 9 May 2019.
Dare, E. and Antonopoulou, A. (2019) ‘The riverine Archive: preserving the contingency of digital heritage’, DCAC 2019: Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges Interdisciplinary Creativity in Arts and Technology. Greece, 10–11 May 2019.
Dare, E. (2019) ‘Machine Learning for Creative Transfer’, Hong Kong Poly University Artificial Intelligence Symposium. Hong Kong, 26 February 2019.
Dare, E. (2018) ‘Normative validity and the quantified academic self’, Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy. Cambridge University, 29–30 December 2018.
Dare, E. (2018) ‘Ontological platforms: deconstructing Moodle and the ideology of personalized learning’, Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University. Cambridge, 13–14 December 2018.
Dare, E. (2018) ‘Digital Fluency and digital epistemology’, Royal College of Art Autumn Teaching Conference. London, 17 September 2018.
Dare, E. (2018) ‘Munging Analytica: God tricks, con tricks and yet more views from above’, RCA Cross College Symposium: Feminisms and Materialisms. London, 25 May 2018.
Dare, E. and Antonopoulou, A. (2018) ‘Phi_VR_books: Collaborative documentation of our recent digital past’, 22nd Annual Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA 2018). Valletta, Malta, 9–12 September 2018.
Dare, E. (2018) ‘Turpin’s Cave: choice and deception in a virtual realm’, 22nd Annual Digital Research in the Humanities and the Arts (DRHA 2018). Valletta, Malta, 9–12 September 2018.
Dare, E. and Heaney, L. (2018) ‘MA Digital Direction, MA Information Experience Design’, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. London, 9–13 July 2018.
Dare, E. (2018) ‘The Second Death Of The Author? Immersive Book Forms Using Ar/Vr And Ai’, The Media Production Show. London, 12–13 June 2018.
Dare, E. & Antonopoulou, A. (2018) ‘The life of a book: Agency, Autonomy, and VR Fictions’, Movement 2018. London, 16-17-February 2018.
Dare, E. (2017) ‘New approaches to STEM and STEAM Education, a case-study of MA Digital Direction, Royal College of Art’, International Forum on Education of Art, Science and Technology (EAST). Beijing, China, 29–30 November 2017.
Dare, E. (2017) ‘Phi Books VR and AR’, Keynote speaker with Alexandra Antonpoulou. Greenwich University Animation Conference, Greenwich University, UK.
Dare, E. (2017) Chaired two conference panels and presented the paper ‘Fractal & Linear Borders: Mapping Boundaries to Sound’. Co-presented paper ‘The Phi Books: Borders, Doors and Walls as a Collaboration Methodology’, with Dr Alexandra Antonopoulou. Somewhere In Between: Borders and Borderlands, London College of Communication, UAL, UK.
Dare, E. (2017) Workshop presentation, ‘learning taxonomies beyond Bloom’, Central Saint Martins, UAL, UK.
Dare, E. (2017) 29th April UAL LCC, Somewhere In Between: Borders and Borderlands International Conference, ‘Fractal & Linear Borders: Mapping Boundaries to Sound’.
Dare, E. & Antonopoulou, A. (2017) 29th April UAL LCC, ‘Somewhere In Between: Borders and Borderlands ’International Conference, ‘The Phi Books: Borders, Doors and Walls as a Collaboration Methodology.’
Dare, E., Antonopoulou, A. (2013) ISEA International Festival of Electronic Art, Sydney 2013, “The Digital Dreamhacker: Crowdsourcing the dream imaginary”.
Dare, Eleanor, Aslam, Shabina (2012) ‘Live Interfaces’, Skype, code and shouting, Leeds University, Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music, UK. Publications etc 9
Dare, E. (2012) Digital Futures Series, Victoria and Albert Museum, Sackler Centre, London, UK.
Dare, E. (2012) International Festival of Digital Art, Watermans Art Centre, London, UK. Dare, E. (2011) Media and the Senses, ‘‘Lost Memories and Embodied Traces’’, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Dare, E. (2011) Czech Scrolls Museum, Kensington, Colloquium on Life Writing, ‘Tensers and detensers: lost memories and embodied traces’ link: http://narrativembodiment.blogspot.co.uk/
Dare, E. (2011) Staging Illusion, Sussex University, presented my work with EEG and electrocution: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sccs/activities/stagingillusion
Dare, E. (2011) ‘Collaborative Curating and New Media’, the Centre for Creative Collaboration, on digital curation, with Lee Weinberg, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett (Furtherfield) and Ele Carpenter. Chaired by Irini Mirena Papadimitriou.
Dare, E., Weinberg, Lee (2011) ISEA2011 Istanbul the International Festival of New Media, Electronic and Digital Arts. ‘VAINS, the Visual Art Navigation and Interrogation System’.
Dare, E., Antonopoulou, A. (2011) ISEA2011 Istanbul the International Festival of New
Media, Electronic and Digital Arts. The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Phi Books.
Dare, E. (2011) 14th Annual International Creative Writing Conference, Imperial College, London. ‘South, a psychometric text adventure’.
Dare, E., Weinberg, Lee (2011) University of Haifa Curatorship Conference, ‘VAINS, the Visual Art Navigation and Interrogation System’.
Dare, E. (2011) Now: Legacies and Amnesia: . An international Interdisciplinary Colloquium. Panel discussion on social-media and time.
Dare, E. (2010) 8th International Conference on the Book, St Galen University, Switzerland. ‘Post-desktop publishing: future books in an era of ubiquitous digitality. The Implications of intelligent and pervasive book forms’
Dare, E., Weinberg, Lee (2010) Brunel University DRHA 2010 Sensual Technologies: collaborative practices of interdisciplinarity conference, ‘VAINS, the Visual Art Navigation and Interrogation System’.
Dare, E. (2010) Copenhagen Doctoral School “After Fiction” European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativity. I presented a paper on my doctoral work on intelligent books.
Dare, E. & Antonopoulou, A. (2010) Goldsmiths University of London – Inter-Art symposium with Berlin and Copenhagen Universities, ‘The Phi Books and the Phi Metafilm’.
Dare, E. (2010) Stockholm, the Research School of Aesthetics at Stockholm University, symposium on ‘Aesthetics and History’, ‘Robot aesthetics and analogue interventions: humans and machines in the incunabulum’.
Dare. E. & Antonopoulou, A. (2009) Berlin, Freie Universität, Graduiertenkolleg “InterArt” International Research Training Group “Interart Studies”, ‘Phi Books Research Territories through Narrative’.
Dare, E. (2008) Non-linear Narrative in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Artistic Practices, Goldsmiths, University of London, a co-operation between Goldsmiths, University of London, the Copenhagen Doctoral School and the International Research Training Group “Interart Studies”, Freie Universität Berlin, ‘South, a psychometric text adventure’.
Doctoral supervision
Dr Lawrence Lek, RCA
Hang Li, RCA
Dr Kelly Spanou, RCA
Dr Harshadha Balasubramanian, UCL
Jing Wang Thomas, University of Cambridge (Co-Supervisor)
Plus 67 MPhil/MEd students at the University of Cambridge, Digital Humanities (Faculty of English/CRASSH)MPhil Knowledge Power and Politics/MEd Transforming Practice/MPhil Arts, Creativity and Education (Faculty of Education)
Funded research/Projects
Dare, Eleanor (2025-2026) Medieval Ideas Creative Lab Digital Artists’ Bursary, creating gifs representing medieval and contemporary imaginaries of intelligence. Will be part of the Cambridge Festival, 2026.
2025, Judith E Wilson Fund Grants for Practice-led Research Projects, University of Cambridge, PI, Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston, my workshop has the title ‘ Queering Realities: Augmented Reality, Live Cinema, and Digital Transfemininity” May 23rd 2025.
2024-2025 AI Forensics, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, post-doctoral research associate (co-I), Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge
2024 Let’s Create! Transit of Venus/Spaceship Earth, a celebration of Holst’s 150th Anniversary, led by James Edward Marks. Arts Council of England.
2023-2024 UKRI Natural Environment Research Council: Digital Voices of the Future: Children’s visions of future UK treescapes revealed through gaming
2023-2024 ESRC Digital Good Network, Co-I. PI Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice, with Co-Is: Eleanor Dare, Angus Main, Professor Steve Love, Professor John Potter, Richard Nash
2023 AHRC Extension Funding The future of broadcast media for kids, funded by AHRC and XR Stories, Co-I with Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice
2023 The Gipton Space Agency, Space 2, Gipton, Leeds, June 21st 2023 via Leeds University AHRC funding
2023, Rear Windows, with Big Telly Theatre Company, Co-I with Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice (X||dinary Stories), Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
MozFest (2023) AI-Musement/Monstrous, Mozilla Foundation, Eleanor Dare (Project Lead), James Edward Marks, Dylan Yamada Rice, Marius Matesan, Ariel Cao, Jing Wang Thomas, Hehe (Jiahe Lin): https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/SHP393-1
2022-2023 The future of broadcast media for kids, funded by AHRC and XR Stories, Co-I with Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice
2021-2022 Pathways Digital, Cambridge University (Digital Direction specialist)
2019-2022 : British Council/RCA, Crafting Futures, Kyrgyzstan (Co-I)
2020: RCA internal funding for a symposium on AI urgencies (disrupted by Covid) (Co-PI)
2019: AHRC/EPRSC, Art Fair Innovations, Shanghai, RCA (Co-I)
2019: AHRC/ESRC 2019 UK-Japan network focused on location-based VR for children, RCA, UCL, Glasgow SoA, Tokyo University and games industry partners (Co-I)
2019: RCA Funding for VR Alterities Symposium (With Claudia Dutson, Vali Lalioti, Indira Knight and Bruna Petreca) (Co-PI)
2019-2020 Eleanor was a Co-I for the successful £5 million Circular Economies bid at RCA in 2020, prior to changing roles. (Co-I) funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI
2018: Research funding from Microsoft Research for AI 9-5, RCA/Microsoft Research, Cambridge, investigating the impact of automation on workers (PI)
2017: Teaching and Learning Fund for a Digital Fluency project across UAL (Co-PI)
2007–2011: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, full doctoral studentship (PI)
2018-2020 Eleanor was one of the primary investigators for the successful £60 million AI Design Lab bid, a collaboration between the RCA and Hong Kong Poly University, with funding from 2019-2029 (PI)