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All the Stars We Cannot See

All the Stars We Cannot See

by | Jun 12, 2025 | Projects

Data perspectives in the age of satellite visualization… ALL THE STARS WE CANNOT SEE All the Stars We Cannot See is an immersive installation that situates participants within a virtual sky activated by 25,500+ satellites orbiting Earth. Smith & Gao are...
FIELD NOTES: adrift

FIELD NOTES: adrift

by | Jun 13, 2015 | Projects

June 14-26, 2015: a durational performance by Megan L. Smith These FIELD NOTES form the beginning of a survey of zooplankton adrift 200 km of the Rideau Canal waterway. You can view live updates on the FIELD NOTES web-site http://adrift.megansmith.ca . This project is...
Ur Beating

Ur Beating <3

by | Jan 7, 2014 | Projects

A project by Michael Grant & Megan Smith. ‘ur beating <3’ is a work in progress. A first prototype will be released for Valentine’s Day, Feb 14 2014. This Arduino-based wearable work will detect the human pulse and relay the data through a...
hack ur baubles

hack ur baubles

by | Nov 4, 2013 | Projects

  A project by Michael Grant & Megan Smith. hack ur baubles Customize your Christmas lights and add a personal narrative to your baubles with light and sound sensors. Build your Christmas experience to your taste and then control your project with a TV...
Landline

Landline

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

‘Landline’ is a free app for audio archiving site-specific experiences. It was built with JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS using the ApplicationCraft cloud IDE and compiler. It runs on Android, iPhone and from the Chrome web browser, links at the bottom. Created by artists:...
this.message.will.self-destruct.

this.message.will.self-destruct.

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

‘this.message.will.self-destruct.’ is project by Megan Smith & Michael Grant, that relays secret messages using infrared light and handheld technologies. The project is narrative-based, leading and informing an audience through a physical journey...
647 days 18 hours

647 days 18 hours

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

‘647 days 18 hours’ (2010) was an interactive map that referenced my GPS trail for the duration of the title. The recording of my movement in this piece became a performed journey that carved out a networked narrative from digital space. Collecting data on myself, and...
My Portable Home

My Portable Home

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

My Portable Home is part of curator Lars Vilhelmsen’s The Travellers Box project. I used a tent, rogue internet signal, laptop, cell phone, and audio-visual equipment to make the piece. The tent formed a symbolic shelter within the city. It represented a way to strip...
The DoGoSee Project

The DoGoSee Project

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

‘The DoGoSee Project’, is a collaboration between Megan Smith & Benjamin Halsall. This project explores new methods of creatively mapping out space using mobile phones and their cameras, as well as GPS technologies. The outcome digital prints, blogs, audio...
Our City, Our Music

Our City, Our Music

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

‘Our City, Our Music’ investigates the use of binaural sound recording and geo-located video to map urban spaces. It is a collaborative project led by myself, Ben Dalton & Ben Halsall. ‘Our City, Our Music’ is accessible via mobile devices on the streets of Leeds....
The Ottawa River/La rivière des Outaouais/

The Ottawa River/La rivière des Outaouais/

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

This film was shot in 2004 in Canada, on the river that separates Quebec and Ontario. It is a natural border and can be a fragile environment for political debate. Quebec is famous for its francophone culture and for preserving the French language. Unfortunately, for...
As I become an avatar and Edwige becomes me

As I become an avatar and Edwige becomes me

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

After exploring the virtual world Second Life as a tourist, in the form of avatar Edwige Pronovost, I decided to flip my position to confront my inability to embody both a digital character and a weather resistant ‘flesh and blood’ avatar. Within Second Life I had...
SocialMoment

SocialMoment

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

The ‘SocialMoment’ series draws iconic instances from the popular social media platform Twitter, during surges of topic-centred emotional activity online. I have isolated these public reflections in digital print to point to shifts in social perception and use of new...
Pst! microCONTROL

Pst! microCONTROL

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects

‘Pst!’ is the surreptitious beckoning of attention and the acronym for Physical Space Tweets. It is an installation of 5 small storytellers placed in a public space giving an audience a glimpse into geo-tagged community topic feeds that unravel in real-time. For the...
Cultural Probe (book)

Cultural Probe (book)

by | Oct 17, 2013 | Projects, Writing

This artist book references 1199 contributions to Twitter made during the last two years of my PhD research at Leeds Metropolitan University. The content takes place between 8 July 2008 & 8 July 2010. The primary recording tool used to do this was an iPhone, which...
Field Research

Field Research

by | Oct 16, 2013 | Projects

‘Field Research’ is a collaborative project between Locomoocow Arts Centre in Mangrove Mountain, NSW, Australia and The Farm, Clarendon, QC, Canada. Working with video and binaural microphones a diptych narrative is currently being produced tying these two...
Nuit Blanche Ottawa+Gatineau 2013 SUPERNOVA!

Nuit Blanche Ottawa+Gatineau 2013 SUPERNOVA!

by | Oct 16, 2013 | Curating, Projects

Nuit Blanche Ottawa+Gatineau is a 1 night per year, dusk-until-dawn celebration of Contemporary Art and local culture that takes place across multiple venues in the National Capital Region. The event showcases the creativity and cohesion of this dynamic community, the...
Child

Child

by | Oct 9, 2013 | Projects

Child explores technology mediated experience and bond with technology. The making of this animation and subsequent website documenting the process allowed me to experience and reflect on the intimate situation of human engagement with computer-generated imagery....

‘New Media Practice is…’ #ART3116 visualization.

by | Feb 16, 2013 | blôg

This is a screen shot of a visualization/infograph that my 60+ #uOttawa #ART3116 students are collectively working on to help them understand New Media practice. updated: Feb 19, 2013. updates: Feb 21, 2013 updated: Feb 27, 2013 Final Document: Accessible here:...
Nuit Blanche press/

Nuit Blanche press/

by | Jul 3, 2012 | Press

Here is some recent press about Nuit Blanche Ottawa. It’s getting very close now and the excitement is building. Guerilla Magazine/ By/ Tony Martins Click the link to read / Nuit Blanche curators prepare for one-night stand of engaging art Tuesday, July 3, 2012...
Come get in bed with us. love, Lainie & Megan xox

Come get in bed with us. love, Lainie & Megan xox

by | Jun 19, 2012 | Curating

  Climb in bed with Nuit Blanche Ottawa curators, Megan Smith and Lainie Towell. Enjoy an intimate conversation, a glass of wine and recline at the prelude soiree to Nuit Blanche Ottawa (NBO) 2012. On June 29th NBO and Gallery La Petite Mort invite partners,...
7th Berlin Biennale/ Art Wiki Project

7th Berlin Biennale/ Art Wiki Project

by | Apr 30, 2012 | Exhibition

Launching with the beginning of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art the Art Wiki is hosting 1800+ artist profiles. I am pleased to count myself among the first participants in this growing project. My profile is here: http://artwiki.org/Megan_Smith...