Make/Write

David Capener makes and writes.

His multidisciplinary practice includes media theory, architecture, philosophy, art, and writing.

In collaboration with the multi-disciplinary group ANNEX he co-curated and designed Entanglement, the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021. His work has been exhibited at transmediale/Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Galway International Arts Festival; Green on Red Gallery, Park Lane, Spencer Dock. Dublin; Roca Gallery London. He was a speaker at transmediale 2023 at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. His practice critically examines the spaces produced by our contemporary technological condition. He is co-editor of the book States of Entanglement published by Actar (2021). Has a chapter Good Game Peace Out in the edited book The Physical and the Digital City: invisible forces, data and manifestations - Intellect (2024), and is author of the forthcoming book in the Thinkers for Architects series, Stiegler for Architects - Routledge (2025).

Exhibitions

• Drawing it Out at the Green on Red Gallery. 13th July - 25th August 2023. Green on Red Gallery, Park Lane, Spencer Dock. Dublin.

  ANNEX   Kirstin Arndt   Alan Butler  John Cronin  Damien Flood 
  Mark Joyce   Arno Kramer  Caroline McCarthy   Niamh McCann
  Fergus Martin   Peter Piller   Bridget Riley   Nigel Rolfe   Xavier Theunis 

• Entanglement at Galway International Arts Festival 2022.

• Transmediale abandon all hope ye who enter here. 26 January to 18 February 2022. Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Location Hanseatenweg).

• Entanglement, at the 17th International Architecture Biennale at Venice in 2021.

• Powerhouse at the Roca Gallery London 2021.
  
  

Work in Progress

• The Production of Space 2 — Edited collection with the artist Alan Butler exploring the computational production of space.

• Optical Delusion — The Right to the City in the Image Age. This book explores everyday life in an age saturated with automated images. Images produced by artificial intelligence.

• Software Wastelands — Art and research project exploring the industrial wastelands of software entropy.

  
  

Coming Soon

• 18th April 2025 — Bernard Stiegler for Architects - Routledge (2025)

Books

• Good Game Peace Out in The Physical and the Digital City: invisible forces, data and manifestations - Intellect 2024.

• Introductory essay in the book Liminal by Stephen Wilson

• States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape (Actar 2021).
  
  

Conferences & talks

• Transmediale Berlin — A Model, a map, a fiction. Akademie der Künste Berlin — Unstable Tools of Scale: the Instrumentalization of Volatility, Uncertainty and Prediction​​ 3rd Feb 2023. Video available here.

• Architectural Association of Ireland Lecture Series Dublin — May 12th

• Towards Resistance in the Age of the Algorithm — Imagine Festival, Belfast 2022.

• Royal Institue of Architects Ireland lecture — Dublin 2021

• Keynote Speaker — European Research in Architecture and Urbanism Conference Birmingham City University 2021

• Speaker — London School of Economics Creative Challenge Series 2021.

• The Production of Space and Planetary Computation 2 — Architecture Media Politics conference, University of Kent.

• The Magic and Metaphysics of Shit, The Production of Space and Planetary Computation — Architecture and Humanities Research Association International Conference 2019

• The Production of Space in an age of Total Planetary Computation — Technology and Culture Workshop Ulster University 2019

• The Right to the City a Revolutionary Conception of Citizenship — European Artists Research Network 2018 Dublin Institute of Technology

• Respondent — Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion 
 University of Lund, Sweden Conference co-organiser and speaker.

• Digital Ecologies and the End of Public Space — All Ireland Architecture Research Group Conference 2018 Queens University Belfast
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