Dr. Damien Charrieras is a cultural studies scholar and a new media theorist. He is since 2019 Program Leader for the Master of Art in Creative Media, the third biggest MA program at CityUHK which attracts close to 4000 applicants every year. He was awarded in 2025 the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS) and he is a member of The Hong Kong Research Grants Council Research Fellow Alliance (HKRFA).

He is the director of the Center for Blockchain and Generative Culture (CBGC) and conducts a humanistic inquiry into the recent surge of technologies of decentralization (blockchain, cryptos, AI, Metaverse). The CBGC explores how technologies of decentralization reconfigure digital worldmaking, techno-cultures, computational aesthetics, and spatial media. He is also the covenor of the crypto culture collective, which is a space for critical discussions about new media and society. 

His current funded projects investigate situated forms of digital creativity in urban settings (media arts; electronic music); the diverse technologies used to conceive 3D real-time environments (especially game engines); blockchain in video games and art; discursive approaches to creative software; new pedagogical approaches to Critical Worldbuilding. Over the past 13 years his successful grants as Principal Investigator totalise HK$ 6 Millions.

He co-edited the volume Underground Music Cultures and Music-Making in Los Angeles: 'Imaginary Cities' (Palgrave Macmillan 2025), Fractured Scenes - Underground Music-Making in Hong Kong and East Asia (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021) as well as Electronic Cities: Music, Policies and Space in the 21st Century (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). He co-authored a public policy report for the Policy Innovation and Co- ordination Office (PICO), Hong Kong S.A.R. Government (The Development of a New Media Expertise in the Creative Economy of Hong Kong, 171p., 2019). He wrote several papers at the crossing of philosophy and digital creative technologies: on video game engines as technical individuals (in Social Science Information, Sage), on the New Computational Aesthetics of Creative Software (Balkan Journal of Philosophy). He co-authored papers on the shifting spaces of creativity in Hong Kong in Cities (Elsevier), on the scene(s) of sonic arts in Hong Kong (in Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press), Analogizing the computer in music making practices (in Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press), on the coproduction of organizational presence (Human Relations, Tavistock Institute, Sage). He published several book chapters in edited volumes (Palgrave MacMillan).

He teaches courses on Technofutures: Critical Approaches to the Metaverse, AI, and Blockchain and on World Making: Artistic Strategies for Contingent Systems.  

He co-organised in January 2025 The Congress of Butoh Souls Symposium involving interventions of Tadashi Endo, Ima Tenko, Yasuo Fukurozaka, Masami Yurabe with Miwako Inagaki, Yuri Nagaoka and Seisaku (Sotheby's Maison, Xevarion Institute and School of Creative Media). 

Between 2014 and 2016 he has been a core member of the organising committee of ISEA 2016 (600+ presenters and artists), Chair of Artist Talks/Work-in-Progress presentations, and Conference Track Chair (Track: Noise Contra Signal). He is co-editor of ISEA 2016 proceedings. 

He is a Board member and member of the international editorial committee of .able: an image-based journal at the intersection of art, design, and sciences responding to the complexities of today’s society. He has served as a reviewer for Leonardo (MIT Press), Journal of Posthuman Studies (The Pennsylvania State University Press), New Media and Society (Sage), Screen (Oxford University Press), Continuum (Routledge), Sustainable Cities and Society (Elsevier), Communication and the Public (Sage), PLOS One, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development (Inderscience Publishers), Philosophy and Technology (Springer), Amsterdam University Press (book manuscript reviewer).