Rietveld Sandberg Research
Photo: Anika Schwarzlose
Photo: Anika Schwarzlose
Brian McKenna
Research group TARR

Brian D. McKenna’s artistic practice involves music, cinema, audiovisual performance, and self-made electronics. His work investigates how technological environments interact with our concepts of self and notions of authenticity. Besides working independently and collaboratively as an artist, McKenna also works as a part-time instructor and technology researcher at the Sandberg Institute, and as a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam.

2023-2024 research threads: Typewriters, typewriter-art, visual music, pattern poetry, concrete poetry, musique concrete, writing machines, automated writing, automatic writing, technologies of the self, writing as spiritual practice.