Megan Smith
Dr. Megan Smith is a new media artist, designer, and UBC 2022 Killam Laureate. Her practice-based research probes systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure. She works with scientific data, AI, and virtual and augmented reality, geo-location, live-feed installation, and performance as storytelling methods. She has shown artwork internationally for over two decades.
She co-created All the Stars We Cannot See (2020–2024) with Dr. Gao, an immersive installation of a virtual sky activated by 29,000+ satellites orbiting Earth. It won an Ars Electronica Honorary Mention in 2022, was funded by the Killam Trusts, and has shown at Kelowna Art Gallery, York University, and venues in the USA, UK, and Pakistan.
Smith holds a PhD in Contemporary Art & Graphic Design from Leeds Beckett University. She has taught at Leeds College of Art, University of Ottawa, University of Regina, and joined UBC in July 2020.
About
Dr. Megan Smith
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan
Email: megan.smith@ubc.ca
RESEARCH CLUSTER FOCUS:
- Physical Computing
- Critical Design