artistic director
Nóra Ó Murchú is a curator and researcher. She has served as the Artistic Director of transmediale between 2021 and 2024. In her curatorial work, she explores online culture and the implications of technological developments. Her multidisciplinary practice embraces narratives, and fictions, resulting in objects, exhibitions, and interventions. Her research aims to help people understand how complex socio-technical systems are imagined, built, and used. She has curated exhibitions and events for institutions including Akademie Schloss Solitude, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Rua Red, and The Science Gallery. She has held positions as a research associate for the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick, the Interaction Research Studio at Goldsmiths, and CRUMB at the University of Sunderland. Her research on the impact of technology on curating has been published at Goldsmiths Press, Taylor & Francis, and Springer. She currently serves as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick in Ireland.