Dennis McNulty
I am an artist, researcher, music-maker and instrument designer. I live and work in Dublin, Ireland. My work grapples with know-ability and is often framed with respect to technologies such as language, diagrams or buildings.

I am currently a funded research assistant at Trinity College Dublin in Prof. Dan Kilper's research group, where I think about the role of diagrams in cross-disciplinary collaboration, particularly in quantum networking research.

I am not currently active on social media. If you are organising an event, please post it to flypost.ie so that I will know about it.
activity
Solo modular improvisation
at Bloop Group
(musical performance)
2025
TDK
at Bloop Group
(musical performance - collaboration with
Karl Burke and Trev O'Reilly)
2025
Are you ready?
National Concert Hall, Dublin
(improvised musical performance)
2025
How to Talk About Diagrams
research at Trinity College Dublin
funded by Research Ireland
through CONNECT
(PhD thesis)
Submitted 2025
BACKGROUND by Bea McMahon
at Terrapolis, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
(music co-composer/co-producer)
2025
BACKGROUND by Bea McMahon
at The Complex, Dublin
(music co-composer/co-producer)
2025
the here and now/crystalline space
installed for Quietly Dispelling the Dark
at VISUAL, Carlow.
(AV work)
2024-25
FTS x CONNECT: Blowing off some STEAM
an episode of the For Tech’s Sake podcast
(in conversation with Jessica Foley
and host Elaine Burke)
2024
I LAND
commissioned by Open Ear, Sherkin Island, Cork
(geo-located sound-walk)
2024
Paulo Post Future
at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
(in conversation with Tom O'Dea)
2024
The Archivist
screened at Memory Loss
DATA.BASE, Dublin
(video)
2024
Carbon Dating
screened at Building Societies; Architecture in Irish Artists’ Film, Composite, Melbourne
(video)
2024
Design for the Long Now: Critical & Creative Methods
for Navigating Ethics in Technological Development
at Radical Futures
hosted by the Radical Humanities Laboratory
at University College Cork
(panel discussion)
2024
Making Quantum Networks and their Epistemic Objects
at Radical Futures hosted by
the Radical Humanities Laboratory
at University College Cork
(conference presentation)
2024
Carbon Dating
screened at Architecture at the Edge,
Pálás Cinema, Galway
(video)
2024
Dina From Egypt
lip-synching pop-group performance
at Framer Framed, Amsterdam
(music co-composer/co-producer)
2024
QLOCKER by Between Machines
presented at Machina Bristronica, Bristol
(parametric sequencer - eurorack module
- collaboration with Tim Redfern)
2023
SP, 2004
Diet of Worms
(solo cassette)
2023
Another Shot at Love by Bea McMahon
commissioned for EVA International, Limerick
(music co-composer/co-producer)
2023
QLOCKER by Between Machines
presented at Superbooth, Berlin
(parametric sequencer eurorack module
- collaboration with Tim Redfern)
2023
Dina From Egypt
lip-synching pop-group performance
for I'll Be Your Mirror at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
(music co-composer/co-producer)
2023
ZALM Ancestors
installed for Entangled
at The Goethe Institut, Dublin
(video)
2022
Real-time electronics
20th Anniversary event
Dublin Art and Technology Association (D.A.T.A.)
at NCAD, Dublin
(artist's talk)
2022
the here and now/crystalline space (audio only)
broadcast for Free Zone Transmissions
at EPIC Ecliptic EXPO, Glendruid Dolmen, Dublin
(sound work)
2022
A collection of differences
presented on www.aemi.com and www.rte.ie
and included in the publication
Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off The Dance Floor.
Commissioned by AEMI as a response to Lisa Freeman's
Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off The Dance Floor
(essay)
2022
Dina from Egypt
production residency at Treignac Project, France
(residency)
2022
KEEPER and QLOCKER by Between Machines
presented at Superbooth, Berlin
(eurorack sequencing modules
- collaboration with Tim Redfern)
2022
a stranger, a stranger
MAYDAY, VISUAL, Carlow
(live playback of pop-song edit)
2022
Live Electronics
for MPhil Music and Media Technologies,
Trinity College Dublin
(artist's talk)
2022
HARMONICS 2014-22
with contributions from Dan Adler, Alice Butler,
Rachel Donnelly, Sarah Hayden, Dennis McNulty,
Christina Simmerer and Kate Strain.
(publication - collaboration with Peter Maybury)
2022
I reached inside myself through time
installed for The Narrow Gate of Here and Now: The Anthropocene, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
(installation)
2021-22
Boundary Conditions
included in Return to Disintegration - Periodical Review 11
at Pallas Projects, Dublin
(geo-located sound-walk)
2021-22
Sound Truthing
commissioned by Grazer Kunstverein
for Grazer Kunstverein is Moving
(geo-located exhibition of sound-works)
2021
Boundary Conditions
commissioned by Lismore Castle Arts
for Light and Language
(geo-located sound-walk and poster/flyer)
2021
IconMaker
produced for CONNECT
(icon authoring software)
2021
Some thoughts about space
for Fine Art Ba students,
NCAD, Dublin
(artist's talk)
2021
Free the tones
on You never see the stars when it rains
a compilation of music by The Wormholes
released by Allchival Records, Dublin
(song collaboration - originally released in 1999)
2021
Walkinstown. Summer 2020
Division Review Journal of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
(artist's intervention - photo series)
2021
Electronic Music and the Gender Gap
presented to the Department of Culture's
Nighttime Economy Taskforce
(presentation - collaboration with Laetitia Deering)
2021
How can I be sure?
commissioned for Feeling of Knowing
at The Complex, Dublin
(AV work)
2021
AI and Machine Learning Ethics Toolkit
for Undergraduate Electronic Engineering students
Trinity College Dublin
(presentation)
2021
The Kitchen
for CONNECT researchers
(virtual social space in response to COVID-19
- collaboration with Tom O'Dea)
2020-21
Cyanoacrylate Psychosis by Dina from Egypt
(song co-composer/co-producer)
2020
Who knows what tomorrow brings (Dreamnagh version)
commissioned by The Complex, Dublin
for 2KM x 1 Minute
(video)
2020
Response to
Consultation on the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence
by the Orthogonal Methods Group
based at CONNECT
(collaborative response to EU consultation process)
2020
Fern Studio
Drimnagh, Dublin
(studio design and construction
- collaboration with Forerunner)
2020
We Dream in Actions
streamed as part of Screening Series,
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
(video)
2020
TTN
installed for Stories from Lismore and Beyond
at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore
(drawing)
2020
We Dream in Actions
at Comfort Carnival, Dublin Fringe
(lecture/musical performance)
2019
AI and Machine Learning Ethics Toolkit v0.1
produced for the Summer School on Machine Learning
for Communication Systems and Networks at CONNECT
(A5 ethics toolkit - collaborative design
by Designing for the Unknown)
2019
Deep Learning - Engineering for Human Interaction and Machine Learning and User Equipment
produced for the Summer School on Machine Learning
for Communication Systems and Networks at CONNECT
(critical discursive interventions into the summer school seminar format - produced collaboratively
by Designing for the Unknown)
2019
Ghosts of the Garden City
at RIAI, Dublin
(video with improvised score
- collaboration with David Donohoe and Dr. Ellen Rowley)
2019
Intangible Material
at Tromso Art Academy
The Arctic University of Norway
(designed and facilitated a week-long workshop)
2019
Homo Gestalt(The Time Domain(Human(TIMEFEEL))).mp3
on REPEATER DATA DUMP
assembled by the Repeater Collective
for Cork Sound Festival
(pop-song edit and images)
2019
DMN mix
for Kate Butler's show on Dublin Digital Radio
(dj set)
2019
Designing for the Unknown
at CONNECT
(speculative multidisciplinary research group - co-founder)
2019-2020
Running up that Building
installed for PRISM
at the Glucksman Gallery, Cork
(AV work)
2019
the here and now/crystalline space
installed for Periodical Review #8
at Pallas Projects, Dublin
(AV work)
2018
Configuration Space
commissioned by AEMI and presented at
Process | Event, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
(screening programme/performance hybrid)
2018
David (Timefeel)
installed for Syntonic State, Tulca, Galway
(AV work)
2018
Orientations
presented at TU Graz to coincide with Matters of Facts
the Orthogonal Methods Group's residency
at The Incomputable Project, IZK, Graz
(screening progrmme
- co-curated with Bea McMahon and AEMI)
2018
Diagram Reading Group
presented at TU Graz to coincide with Matters of Facts
the Orthogonal Methods Group's residency at
The Incomputable Project, IZK, Graz
(designed and facilitated this workshop on interdisciplinary communication)
2018
TTOPOLOGY
at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
and www.ttopolo.gy
(solo exhibition and website)
2018
DAXA: Half Crystallised But Still Breathing
performed by David Donohoe using DAXA
St. Patricks College Carlow
(improvised music/technical intervention)
2018
COUPLING
at VISUAL, Carlow
(public conversation with Bernard Geoghegan)
2018
TTOPOLOGY
at VISUAL, Carlow
and www.ttopolo.gy
(solo exhibition and website)
2018
Performance Sequencer
at VISUAL, Carlow
(workshop/screening
- collaboration with Bea McMahon & AEMI)
2018
anginging
a response to nth nature by Lilah Fowler
at Assembly Point, London
(solo improvisation)
2018
Making Music
commissioned for The Treeline Project's
Circe Pavilion, Dublin
(performance)
2017
Think as I feel
installed for Half (A three person exhibition in a tree)
to coincide with the launch of SIC #4 BLAST, Amsterdam
(sound work - pop-song edit)
2017
1967-2017
commissioned for Coast-Lines
at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
(collaborative exhibition intervention by
the Orthogonal Methods Group)
2017
Unboxing Aspen
commissioned for Coast-Lines
at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
as part of 1967-2017
(collaborative video work by
the Orthogonal Methods Group)
2017
Klangfarbenmelodie
written for the temporary web project
Response to a Request
(essay)
2017
Towards a City Observatory
edited by Julie Crawshaw for Collective, Edinburgh
(publication contribution)
2017
Manual Override
co-produced for CONNECT
(physical/haptic interface design and production for
a multi-player educational game)
2017
A fragment of the future
created for Get Connected with Pervasive Nation
at Croke Park, Dublin
(performance lecture)
2017
Introduction to a screening of
Hydra Decapita by the Otolith Group
to accompany The Ocean After Nature
at The Hugh Lane Gallery
(artist's talk)
2017
Timeful Things
an Engineering Fictions session
at Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin
(writing workshop - format devised and hosted by
Jessica Foley)
2017
Timeful Things
in Transdisciplinary Practice
edited by Linda King and Oonagh Young
(book chapter)
2017
Rainfear meets DAXA Uptown
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
(performance by Rainfear, screening programme & pamphlet)
2017
Review of George Bush and Children by Dick Walsh
at Project Arts Centre, Dublin
(theatre review commissioned by DRAFF)
2017
To the Conscious Browsers
commissioned by MExIndex
for the publication As We May Think
(essay)
2017
Review of Locky Morris, STOP LOOKIN' AT PHOTOGRAPHS!
at The Naughton Gallery, Belfast.
(exhibition review commissioned by Circa Art Magazine)
2017
Composite
presented at Art and Writing: Imprint
organised by Paper Visual Art and Gorse
at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
(performance lecture)
2016
I'm Getting Parts
at Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin
(solo exhibition)
2016
Let's Talk About Blesh
an Engineering Fictions session at Bluecoat, Liverpool
(writing workshop - format devised and hosted by
Jessica Foley)
2016
Homo Gestalt
Liverpool Biennal at The Bluecoat, Liverpool
and www.blesh.net
(solo exhibition, off-site performance, website and app)
2016
Diagram Reading Group
at CONNECT, Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin
(workshop)
2016
I reached inside myself through time
installed for IMMA Collection: A Decade,
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
(installation)
2016
The mirror's sending me through time
installed for Festiv Town,
temporary exhibition in public space, Amsterdam
(sound work)
2016
Certain Bodies (part I) and Certain Bodies (part II)
installed for This is Public and Sexy,
an RGKSKSRG project at
Studio 468/Common Ground, Dublin
(sound works)
2016
Jony's Ghosts
commissioned for
The First International Conference of Ultimology
Trinity College, Dublin
(wearable multiple)
2016
Reflections on Performance
for The Centre for Dying Onstage
hosted by Cow House Studios Autumn Residency
at Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin
(artist's talk)
2016
VMB(When Doves Cry)
installed for ART WORKS, Carlow Arts Festival
(AV work)
2016
The Projectionist
created for the launch of SIC #3 RACE zine
at FLATSTATION, Amsterdam
(performance)
2016
You know about a worm when it's cut,
growin' whole again?
One Sentence Exhibition on
the Kadist Foundation website
(curatorial collaboration with Maeve Connolly)
2016
Systems Theory Reading Group
at CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin
(co-organiser)
2016
Primate Vision
an Engineering Fictions session at CONNECT
(writing workshop - format devised and hosted by
Jessica Foley)
2016
contribution to SIC #3 RACE, Amsterdam
(zine page)
2016
Review of
shapes from life by Aleana Egan
at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
(exhibition review commissioned by Paper Visual Art)
2016
The world doesn't need any more of those
in Resourcefulness- Critical Bastards issue 12
(performance script & images)
2016
Bas Beatha
commissioned for Seachange, Tulca, Galway
(installation - collaboration with Ros Kavanagh)
2015
Summer Rising event
at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
(music programming
- curatorial collaboration with Peter Maybury)
2015
http://alpha60.info
hosted by Continuous Drift, Meeting House Sq., Dublin
(sound work/public artwork)
2015
untitled
performed at Hertsmere Road E15
for at hmn2
(performance/ work in progress)
2015
I reached inside myself through time
commissioned for LIAF 2015 - Disappearing Acts
Lofoten, Norway
(installation)
2015
Style vs Fashion
produced for the Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Supporters' Club BBQ.
(essay, zine and playlist)
2015
Things we know and say
invited commission proposal developed for
St. Angela's College, Cork
(AV work)
2015
This halfway place
installed at Studio 11, Irish Museum of Modern Art
for Events come and go like waves of a fever
(AV work and staging structure)
2015
Transit and Transport
part of the DEMATERIALISATION event series
at CONNECT, Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin
(screening programme selected by Maeve Connolly)
2015
Drawdex
part of the DEMATERIALISATION event series
at CONNECT, Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin
(workshop/ technical pictionary game)
2015
Systems Aesthetics
part of the DEMATERIALISATION event series
at CONNECT, Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin
(art history talk by Francis Halsall for a non-expert audience)
2015
The Orthogonal Methods Group
at CONNECT
(transdisciplinary research platform - co-founder)
2015 - 2021
Running up that building
commissioned for Fourth Space
Uillinn, Skibbereen, Cork
(AV work)
2015
SPACE / LANGUAGE / TECHNOLOGY
developed for Forum der Muthesius Kunsthochschule
(week-long workshop)
2014
The world doesn't need any more of those
produced for Foaming at the Mouth,
Stag's Head Pub basement, Dublin
(performance)
2014
INTERZONE
screened as part of Transit and Transport
at FACT, Liverpool
(video)
2014
A Leisure Complex
commissioned by Collective, Edinburgh
for All Sided Games
(promenade performance and publication)
2014
How Near is Here?
a symposium on locality
at Meadowbank Sports Centre, Edinburgh
(panel discussion)
2014
Samples for ears and pixels for eyes
at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
(multi-media performance)
2014
The Archivist’s Memory
an Engineering Fictions session
at CONNECT, Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin
(writing workshop - format devised and hosted by
Jessica Foley)
2014
CORPUS
co-published by Publication Studio Vancouver and Project Press
(algorithmically generated publication)
2014
Metadata Venn Diagram
presented by Fingal Arts and Broadstone Invited Artists
at Broadstone Studios
(screening programme curation)
2014
A Cloud of Soft Equations
produced with the support of Pallas Projects/Studios,
Irish Architecture Foundation and the Arts Council.
(promenade performance)
2014
Aliens, Assemblage, and the Art of Dennis McNulty
at Limerick City Gallery of Art
(a talk by Dan Adler)
2014
PROTOTYPES
at Limerick City Gallery of Art
(solo exhibition)
2014
last edited on 2026-02-15