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Mr Damien Roach

Positions held:
  • Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Damien Roach is a London-based artist, designer, musician, and lecturer in Digital Media and Creative AI at Birkbeck. In the years prior to joining Birkbeck in 2026, he held lecturing positions on the MA Visual Media at LCC (2019 - 2023), and Lens Based Media/Media Production at Ravensbourne University (2011 - 2020). His projects span art, design and creative direction, publishing, sound/music and audiovisual media. In 2023 under the name patten, he released ‘Mirage FM’, the first album made entirely from text-to-audio AI samples. He is currently completing his PhD, ‘Acid Realism: Aesthetic Disclosure in the Age of Generative Media and Planetary Computation’ at the Royal College of Art. His research is focused on AI, machine vision, and non-human planetarity.


    He has exhibited internationally, including the 51st Venice Biennale, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Saatchi Gallery, recent immersive site-specific installations at SXSW London, KOKO, Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), group shows at Saatchi Gallery, The European Conference on Computer Vision (Malmö), National Communication Museum (Melbourne), ‘Prompting the Real’ (Bologna), Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK), and immersive live AV performances at London’s ICA, Tate Modern, across Europe, North America, and Japan.


    Other new commissions & projects include Google Creative Lab, Ableton/The British Library, ArtEO, creative direction/design for Caribou's live audiovisual tours and 2026’s Daphni album ‘Butterfly’ as 555-5555.


    A frequently heard voice on panels, symposia & podcasts, most recently Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon’s ‘Interdependence’, Somerset House/n-Space ‘The Algorithmic Sovereign’, SXSW’s ‘Technology, Art & Ecology’, The Wire at Cafe OTO, BBC 6Music, as well as TV interviews for BBC ‘Tech Now’ and Reuters.

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  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    Currently completing his PhD at the Royal College of Art. 'Acid Realism: Aesthetic Disclosure in the Age of Generative Media and Planetary Computation' (2023-2027). London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) funded.

    His research is focused on AI, machine vision, and non-human planetarity.

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Working with Digital Media