{"id":2594,"date":"2015-11-27T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2018-05-20T23:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T03:26:53","slug":"dr-craig-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/dr-craig-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Craig Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2637\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2594-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/craigsmith.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/craigsmith.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/craigsmith.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2624 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/smith_bianchi_sky_seminar_2013.556x556.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"smith_bianchi_sky_seminar_2013.556x556\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/smith_bianchi_sky_seminar_2013.556x556.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/smith_bianchi_sky_seminar_2013.556x556.jpg?w=556&amp;ssl=1 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Dr. Craig Smith is an American media artist whose art and research focuses on the process, aesthetics, and ethics of human\u2010to\u2010human interactivity in contemporary art, especially photography, sound, and socially engaged performances. Smith and his contemporaries are active in a diverse, media-enriched and socially engaged cultural field in which curating and the production of spaces of encounter are conceptualized, defined, and instrumentalized. Such a concept of curating space is a response to the situational structure of artistic practices that are no longer bound to the fixed and private location of a studio space for making art, nor to a gallery or museum for presenting artifacts from that private activity killing time in the studio. His exhibitions of photography, live sound performances, lectures, and other art media have been featured at an international range of museums, galleries, art fairs, athletic facilities, and financial organizations including the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corcoran.org\/exhibitions\/past\/manifest-armed\"><span class=\"s2\"> Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.<\/span><\/a>, PS1MOMA Contemporary Art Institute in New York, The Tate Modern in London, The George Eastman House in Rochester, the Hudson River Museum, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center as well as galleries and art fairs including CEPA Gallery (Buffalo), Galerie Schuster Photo (Berlin), RARE Art (New York), SCM Hong Kong, ARTSPACE Sydney, The Kent Gallery and White Columns (New York), and the Scope Art fairs in London, New York, and Miami. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Smith has been awarded grants from numerous organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts as well as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In 2013 Smith curated the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepagallery.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Art of Sport<\/i> <\/span><\/a>using diverse conceptual aesthetic modes to address the social engagement with a culture of competitive sports in the United States and abroad. The exhibition featured an international group of artists including\u00a0 Lee Walton, John Baldessari, Matthew Bakkom, Daria Martin, Paul Pfeiffer, Brad Beesely, Mitch Miller, Hans van der Meer, Vesna Pavlovic&#8217; and Catherine Opie. Smith\u2019s books about art practice and social engagement include <i>Training Manual for Relational Art<\/i> (2009) as well as <i>On the Subject of the Photographic<\/i> (2007).\u00a0 Smith\u2019s forthcoming book publication, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtauris.com\/Books\/The%20arts\/The%20arts%20general%20issues\/Relational%20Art%20A%20Guided%20Tour.aspx?menuitem=%7BE0961D02-3441-46BB-AC01-8728897BEF72\"><span class=\"s2\">Relational Art: A Guided Tour,<\/span><\/a> will be published by I.B. Tauris, LTD in 2016. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Smith has held teaching positions at numerous universities and colleges including New York University, Goldsmiths College, and the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London). Smith joined the University of Florida in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2625\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2625 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/boston-index.jpg?resize=625%2C461&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"boston index\" width=\"625\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/boston-index.jpg?resize=1024%2C755&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/boston-index.jpg?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/boston-index.jpg?resize=624%2C460&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/boston-index.jpg?w=1165&amp;ssl=1 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Boston Swim Turns&#8221; (performance and photography installation, Boston Harbor, USA 2011)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2627\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2627 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/index.jpg?resize=625%2C415&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"index\" width=\"625\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/index.jpg?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/index.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/index.jpg?resize=624%2C415&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/index.jpg?w=1293&amp;ssl=1 1293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Bored, Board, Board.&#8221; (performance and photography, Paris, FR 2012)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/craigsmith.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listDr. Craig Smith is an American media artist whose art and research focuses on the process, aesthetics, and ethics of human\u2010to\u2010human interactivity in contemporary art, especially photography, sound, and socially engaged performances. 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