Aaro Murphy is an installation artist working with sound, animation, glass and smell. His work takes form as time based sculptures and kinetic installations exploring techno-human relationships and the poetics of machines. A recurring theme in Murphy’s practice is the ability for machines and complex mechanisms to adopt spatial agency and performative potential – shifting between robotic beings and instruments.
Murphy graduated from The Studio for Immediate Spaces in 2017 and has been based in Amsterdam since then. In October/November 2022, he is at The Tokyo Arts & Science, research residency organised by the Finnish Cultural Institute and BioArt Society, researching digital scenting systems and synthetic smell manufacturing.
Curves of Inquiry is a Gerrit Rietveld Academie initiative that showcases the findings of nine artist-researchers who completed a fellowships trajectory in the previous academic year. Each of these projects is carried out in close collaboration with a department of the Rietveld Academie or Sandberg Instituut to foster relationships between educational programs, research activities, and societal issues.
In the Fellows-in-Process series the research fellows of the Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut 2022/2023 will share their process and findings with students and the Rietveld community at large. The series aims to aid interaction, while engendering meaningful conversations between the fellows, students and teachers of both institutes. To that end, events are open to Rietveld and Sandberg students and teachers. Below you can find all workshops. Note that for some workshops you have to sign up.
Art & Spatial Praxis – During his fellowship, Aaro Murphy will dedicate his research around artificial smell production as a form of virtual space making. With a particular emphasis on the rise of synthetic aromas and digitised scenting in our cities, he aims to explore the social and political effects of olfactory space making.