David Capener’s 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

• 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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