about us

Founded in 2023, daaad ltd are an independent AV design and installation practice working exclusively in the cultural sector - museums, galleries, exhibitions, and the artists working within them.

Between us we have over forty years experience in cultural sector audio-visual projects - fourteen leading the technical team at FACT Liverpool, and fifteen specifying and delivering Barbican Immersive's international touring exhibitions. Recent and current clients include Liverpool Biennial, Science Museum Group, Serpentine Gallery, Film & Video Umbrella and Liverpool Cathedral. We've worked with countless artists, Barbara Kruger, Isaac Julien, Elizabeth Price and Anish Kapoor, to name just a few.

We founded daaad to bring institutional-grade thinking to projects of any scale, without the institutional overhead. Working with us means dealing with the people who will be on site. We scope it, we draw it, we install it, we commission it. No handovers, no juniors learning on your project, no surprises when the van arrives.

We don't do shop fits, corporate AV or live events. We work in culture, exclusively - because that's where our experience is most useful, and because exhibitions don't behave like meeting rooms.

what we do

  • design

    We will help you imagine your project from the ground up and will create a coherent visual language across all design elements, providing technical drawings, room layouts and 3D visualisations.

  • technology

    We have 40 years combined experience in audio-visual installations and can spec and provide innovative technology and equipment to bring the sound and video aspects of your project to life.

  • production

    Our experienced project managers can support you throughout the entire production process, from inception to planning to delivery, with a holistic and methodical approach.

  • installation

    Our team of expert and friendly technicians will build and install your project on site with the necessary sensitivity towards the demands and complexities of all types of projects.

who we are

Mark Murphy

Director

Mark spent fourteen years as Technical Director at FACT Liverpool, leading technical delivery across one of the UK's most ambitious new media programmes — large-scale immersive commissions, experimental pop-ups, and international co-productions designed to tour. He brought FACT's production pipeline in-house, building a department that handled everything from 3D spatial design to AV installation.

His specialism is the unforgiving end of cultural AV: show control, integration, and projection systems that have to run unattended for six months at a time. He works fluently across CAD, Q-SYS scripting and physical computing, and prefers plain English over jargon when explaining a system to curators or producers. Several of the technicians he trained at FACT have gone on to senior posts at the Barbican and BALTIC. Born and raised in Liverpool.

Dave Berger

Director

Dave has 20 years of experience in arts and music production and has helped realise the technical aspects of countless exhibitions and events in the UK and world-wide.

Having previously worked primarily as a sound engineer, he became involved in gallery and museum installations in 2008 and went on to work for the Barbican Centre’s international department as an audio-visual technician, installing multi-disciplinary exhibitions in venues around the globe. He has been working as a freelance AV consultant and production manager for various arts organisations and individuals in Liverpool and London since 2016 and works across English, German and French.