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Dooley Murphy      About   Research   Art

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📧hello@dooleymurphy.com️  🐦@dooleymurphy

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🥽XR product designer at Laerdal Medical.

I've been working with AR/VR since 2010 and have taught courses like game design and media analysis at BA and MA levels.

I'm open to speaking, consultancy, editorial, jurying, and curatorial work. Send me an email!☝️⬆️

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 🎦Watch a 2023 talk I gave here.

The event was Aalto University's Creative Technologies series, the theme was Rethinking Reality - Where Is XR Heading?, and my argument was that designers shouldn't get too hung up on tech――we've still much to learn about how XR moves us.

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ▶️Watch a 2019 video essay I made here.

Back when my PhD research was just getting underway, I summarised a bunch of examples of narrational strategies in VR. The result is this video――VR Storytelling: A Tale of Two Strategies. I still more or less agree with my analysis!

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 📘️️Read my PhD thesis here.

It's called Through the Screen Door: Virtual Reality Experiences.

The gist is, a sense of agency or acting in VR is cool and all, but theorists and practitioners alike might wanna pay more attention to patiency――the embodied feeling of being acted upon.

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Education:

🎓PhD Virtual Reality Experiences, 2022
🏛️University of Copenhagen

🎓MA Cognition and Communication, 2016
🏛️University of Copenhagen

🎓BA Media and Communications, 2012
🏛️Goldsmiths, University of London

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