Conor McGarrigle holds a Bsc from UCD an MA Art in the Digital World from The National College of Art & Design Dublin. He is currently a PhD candidate at GradCAM, The Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, and a visiting lecturer at NCAD.

He has been creating net art since 1999 and is well known for works such as Spook... (2000 -2002) and The Bono Probability Positioning System (2006) which have crossed into mainstream internet culture garnering large audiences in the process. Recent projects include Joyce Walks which re-enacts Bloomsday as an ongoing series of performative interventions which have taken place in over 70 cities worldwide and the mobile phone apps NAMAland and WalkSpace..

His work has been exhibited in Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Denmark, UK, USA , Brazil, Japan, Korea and Australia. Notable exhibitions include EV+A, SIGGRAPH, Fundacio La Caixa Barcelona, St Etienne Biennale, FILE Brazil, The Boston Cyberarts Festival, Seoul Net Festival, Art on the Net Tokyo, Fundacio Miro and the Werkleitz Biennale. In 2007 he was an invited participant in the Documenta 12 Magazine project.
He is a member of the organising committee of the Dublin Art & Technology Association (DATA) and an artist Director of the Irish Visual Artists Rights Association (IVARO).