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Nora O'Murchú

Nora O' Murchu is a lecturer, researcher and curator at the Interaction Design Centre in the University of Limerick. In 2013 she was a post-doctoral researcher at CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss) in the University of Sunderland where her research explored experimental approaches to curating new media art and examining current economic, political and cultural factors that are shaping networked culture, and the artistic responses to them.

She is the founder and creative director of Tweak - a digital art and electronicmusic festival that took place in Ireland from 2008 – 2010 and a member of Council a think-tank focused on the Internet of Things.

Her current research focuses on the design of open-ended interactive systems and how open source communities can offer unique insights for the development of these interactive systems for the Interaction Design Community.

She has produced exhibitions and events (www.openhere.data.ie) for Trinity College Dublin and has curated the work of Golan Levin, Casey Reas, FIELD, Anthony Antonellis, Daniel Miller, Gregory Chatonsky, Tristan Perich, and Benjamin Gaulon. In 2014 O’Murchu curated the exhibition ‘Coded After Lovelace’ with Faith Holland, which was shown at the White Box Art Center in New York and Hannah Maclure Centre in Dundee.