The University of New South Wales

Faculty Member, School of English, Media and Performing Arts

Associate Professor

About

Andrew Murphie is the editor of the open access, online journal, the Fibreculture Journal (http://journal.fibreculture.org/). His own research: theories of the virtual; post-connectionist and poststructuralist models of mind; Guattari and Deleuze (and others - he’s not quite a card carrying ‘deleuzean’); art and interaction; electronic music (especially in Australia); critical approaches to performance systems and what he calls ‘auditland’; biophilosophy and biopolitics; innovation; education innovation; collaboration; contemporary publishing.

Recent online publications include 'Differential Life, Perception and the Nervous Elements: Whitehead, Bergson and Virno on the Technics of Living' in Culture Machine (2005) and 'The Mutation of "Cognition" and the Fracturing of Modernity' in Scan (2005) and 'Clone Your Technics: Research creation, radical empiricism and the constraints of models' in Inflexions (2008). Forthcoming publications include ‘Deleuze, Guattari and Neuroscience’, 'Performance as the Distribution of Life: from Aeschylus to Chekhov to VJing via Deleuze and Guattari' and 'Joyce Hinterding and David Haines: High Res Resonations with the Milky Way'.

He also works with Anna Munster on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project: Dynamic Media: innovative social and artistic developments in new media in Australia, Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990. He very occasionally pretends to be an amateur VJ, as VJ Comfy, and sometimes works with the wonderful Senselab in Montréal. In the distant past, he’s worked as a marketing manager and production manager for arts companies, and as a freelance theatre director (which has included work on productions of Samuel Beckett's shorter plays and Heiner Muller's Hamlet-Machine).

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