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Exploring art’s digital frontiers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor of Digital Media\/Digital Photography<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, Associate Professor of Art Jeff Murphy and his wife, Professor Heather Freeman<\/a>, spent the month of July in residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute with their son Quinn. Murphy was just beginning to explore virtual reality (VR) video<\/a> and every day he would walk along the Santa Fe River and immerse his new Go Pro Fusion camera in the water. But as the month progressed, the water dried up, and by the end of July, the river had disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt really was a great metaphor for the issues that surround global warming and climate change,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murphy\u2019s work began to explore environmental concerns in the early 2010s. He had always enjoyed outdoor life \u2013 hiking, kayaking, mountain biking \u2013 but as the father of a small boy, he spent a lot of time in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cQuinn loved being outside. We spent so much time in the creek on our property.\u201d Protecting the land became important, Murphy says. \u201cAs an artist you have to find a way to have your creative work reflect your life and vice-versa. As a parent, you address things that you think are relevant to your child\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before that time, much of Murphy\u2019s work had focused on themes of religious identity. He grew up in a Catholic home and attended Catholic school in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. There were no artists in his family, and he didn\u2019t take a formal art class until he was a student at The Ohio State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI took a photography class and then just kept doing it. My instructors just assumed I was a photography major.\u201d When they discovered otherwise, they convinced him to pursue the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, Film, and Video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio State was one of the first programs to teach animation, through the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, and that training served Murphy well in his first job out of undergraduate school, with a business communications company. A few years later, he entered graduate school at the University of Florida, right as digital media was exploding. When he graduated in 1995 with his Master of Fine Arts, he had studied interactive design and digital photography and, inspired by professor Jerry Uelsmann, had embraced photomontage\/composite photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murphy\u2019s master\u2019s thesis, the first works in his\u00a0Bible Stories<\/a><\/em>, launched his artistic investigation into religion, a thematic journey that lasted more than a decade and culminated in a research semester in Spain in 2006. From that research, he developed\u00a0Convergence<\/em><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0an extensive body of work that examines the visual dynamic created by both the Islamic and Christian traditions in Andalusia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That same year, the Department of Art & Art History, which Murphy had joined in 1998, hired a second digital media professor: Heather Freeman. Freeman and Murphy had met on an online dating site four years before and then in person at a College Art Association conference in 2003. At the time, Freeman was teaching at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, but over the next few years, she and Murphy began to look for teaching positions in closer proximity. Freeman landed a job first at Clemson University. Then a position opened at UNC Charlotte. While Murphy was completing his artist residency in Spain, UNC Charlotte hired Freeman. The two were married that July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their son Quinn was born in 2008, and fatherhood has profoundly affected Murphy\u2019s life and work, from videos like\u00a0Building Your Vocabulary<\/em><\/a>, to the 2D photographic\u00a0Happy SAHD (Stay at Home Dad)<\/em>\u00a0series, to a series of 360 Degree Panoramas inspired by Quinn\u2019s fascination with digging in the dirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He continues, too, to ride the crest of the digital wave. He recently acquired an Oculus VR headset and is reworking videos to be viewed with the new technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And especially with the pandemic, he is still spending a lot of time outdoors. Now 12, Quinn doesn\u2019t need constant supervision on walks along the creek, but Barley, the family\u2019s Boxer mix, is a happy companion. \u201cI have my dog working for me,\u201d Murphy says. \u201cI just strap my camera to her back, and off we go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Murphy\u2019s work at his website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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