Marcos Dias
Dr
Marcos Dias is Assistant Professor and Programme Chair of the BSc in Multimedia at the School of Communications, Dublin City University. He completed a PhD in Media Studies in the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2015 and a MSc with Distinction in Interactive Digital Media from Trinity College Dublin. He also holds a BA in Architecture and City Planning (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) and a BA in Digital Media Design and Production-First Class Honours (Atlantic Technological University - formerly LkIT). He conducts research on citizen wellbeing, performance art and the impact of digital media on contemporary urban living.
He teaches on the BSc in Multimedia programme across a range of modules, including Media Spaces, Major Production Project, Information Design and Emerging Media, and coordinates the yearly DCU Multimedia Graduate Exhibition. Prior to joining DCU, he was Lecturer in Media Studies in Maynooth University and Assistant Lecturer and Programme Director for the BA in Communications in Creative Media in DkIT.
Marcos has previously worked as an architect and web designer and was an Editorial Board Member of the Platform Journal of Media and Communications (2010-2011).
In his recent book The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation (Manchester University Press, 2021), Marcos investigates the potential of performance art to help us reflect on contemporary urban living and its assemblages of human and machine agency.
Marcos is PI on the Community Engagement Through Performance Art (CEPA) project funded by the Irish New Foundations 2022 award. He is also the DCU coordinator and partner on the Digital Media Network Doctoral Experience (Dimendx) project funded by the ECIU SMART-ER Seed Programme.
He is Chair of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Media, Cities and Spaces Section. As part of the Section, Marcos was the local organiser of the Synthetic City Conference (DCU, 2023), which explored the impact of AI and digital media on urban living.
Marcos is available to supervise multidisciplinary PhD projects in media and communication studies, with a particular interest in the impact of digital technologies in urban space and also the role of public play, participatory art interventions, urban activism and artificial intelligence in the city.
Marcos has previously worked as an architect and web designer and was an Editorial Board Member of the Platform Journal of Media and Communications (2010-2011).
Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Marcos P. Dias (2021) The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Marcos Dias and Matt Adams (2019) 'Participating in the City through Performative Urban Interfaces'. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 22 (4). [Link] | |
| 2014 | Marcos P. Dias, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen, Rowan Wilken (2014) 'Asynchronous speeds: disentangling the discourse of high speed broadband in relation to Australia’s National Broadband Network'. Media International Australia, 151 (1). [Link] | |
| 2012 | Marcos P. Dias (2012) 'A Machine to See With (and Reflect Upon): Interview with Blast Theory Artists Matt Adams and Nick Tandavanitj (peer-reviewed)'. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 8 (1). [Link] | |
| 2012 | Marcos P. Dias (2012) 'Australia's project for universal broadband access: From policy to social potential'. First Monday, 17 (9). [Link] |
Online Article
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | (2024) What makes a successful piece of public performance art?. ELEA [Link] | |
| 2021 | Marcos Dias; Carol Barron; Mary-Jane Emmett (2021) Park life: how the pandemic changed our use of local parks. ELEA [Link] | |
| 2019 | Marcos Dias (2019) How to Ensure Robots Behave Nicely in the City. ELEA [Link] | |
| 2018 | Marcos Dias (2018) Your city is watching you. ELEA [Link] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Marcos Dias (2011) 'The Converging Worlds of ‘Surfing the Web’ and the Sport of Surfing' In: A scholarly affair: proceedings of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia 2010 national conference. Lismore, Australia : Southern Cross University. [Link] |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Marcos P. Dias (2009) 'Spatial Awareness and Exploration of the Museum Building (peer-reviewed)' 1 (4) . [Link] |
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Marcos P. Dias (2015) Book Review: Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference. BREV [Link] |
Conference Publication
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Marcos P. Dias (2016) Digital Cultural Ecology and the Medium Sized City (ISSN 2398-9467) . In: Sarah Sparke and Graham Cairns eds. A Critique Of Participation In The Digitally-Mediated City Through Mixed Reality Performance Event [Link] | |
| 2011 | Marcos Dias (2011) ISEA 2011 Istanbul - The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art Digital Performance in Networked Public Spaces: Situating the Posthuman Subject [Link] |
Conference Contribution
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Committees
Research Interests
Marcos's main areas of research interest are citizen wellbeing, performance art and the impact of digital media on contemporary urban living.
In his recent book The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation (Manchester University Press, 2021), Marcos investigates the potential of performance art to help us reflect on contemporary urban living and its assemblages of human and machine agency.
Marcos is PI on the Community Engagement Through Performance Art (CEPA) project funded by the Irish New Foundations 2022 award. He is also the DCU coordinator and partner on the Digital Media Network Doctoral Experience (Dimendx) project funded by the ECIU SMART-ER Seed Programme.
He is Chair of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Media, Cities and Spaces Section. As part of the Section, Marcos was the local organiser of the Synthetic City Conference (DCU, 2023), which explored the impact of AI and digital media on urban living.
He has published four articles in RTE Brainstorm about city surveillance, the impact of robots in everyday life in the city and the changing patterns of park usage in Dublin during the COVID pandemic and the social impact of performance art in urban space. His book The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation (Manchester University Press, 2021) investigates the potential of performance art to help us reflect on contemporary urban living and its assemblages of human and machine agency.
Marcos is interested in collaborations on both research-based and creative projects that are concerned with citizen wellbeing, digital media and urban living. His research interests include performative arts, social interaction, media and urban studies, urban activism, artificial intelligence, pervasive media, Internet studies, screen studies, interactive digital design, science and technology studies and philosophy.
Marcos is available to supervise multidisciplinary PhD projects in media and communication studies, with a particular interest on the impact of digital technologies in urban space and also the role of public play, urban activism and participatory art interventions in the city.