Background
Daniel Murphy is a moving-image artist and educator. His work studies absences and their generative potentials, examining histories of hearsay and speculative scientific accounts that are cobbled together in the face of inexplicable phenomena. Informed by his past experiences working as a scratch baker, his work is hands-on and process-oriented.
Murphy's films have been screened at many festivals and screening spaces worldwide, including L鈥檃lternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Antimatter Media Art, VideoEx Zurich, FRACTO Berlin, WHAMMY! Microcinema, Fisura, ICDOCS, Laterale, San Diego Underground, Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, Nomadica, and the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival.
Education
- MFA in Cinematic Arts, University of Wisconsin鈥揗ilwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
- BFA in Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Research Interests
- Darkroom techniques and technologies
- Historical research
- Fabulation
- Environmental phenomena
- Chance operations
Teaching Interests
- Experimental filmmaking
- Found footage
- Digital/analog hybrid workflows
- Rephotography
- 16mm filmmaking