Megan Smith
Assistant Professor
Media, Art, and Performance
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Dr. Megan Smith is a new media artist and curator. Her art practice probes new systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with geo-location, live-feed installation, and community projects as methods for storytelling. Group shows include ‘In Transit: Mediated Identities in Space” at The Works Art & Design Festival, Edmonton June 2015), ‘Conversations électroniques’, La Panacée, Montpellier, France (June-December 2013) and Electric Fields (September 2013). She is Creative Director and co-Founder of the National Capital’s Nuit Blanche festival, a pop-up Contemporary Art event focused on embedding temporary transformative projects into public spaces. The festival annually hosts over a hundred artists from diverse areas of practice and is regularly attended by thousands of smiling people.
Research Interest
New media, geo-location, storytelling, creative technologies, community-based practices, site-specific art, curation, DIY & maker culture, pop-up festival culture.
