Graham Smith (artist and inventor)

Graham Smith is an artist, inventor and educator based in Germany, Canada and the Netherlands. He has exhibited internationally for the last 25 years.

Early Telepresence Robot

Early life

Smith was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1958.

Education

1977-1979 Langara College, Vancouver, British Columbia

1979-1983 Associate of the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario

Themes

Frame to Frame Robot

Robotic, virtual reality, photographic and telepresence media.

Projects

1993 to 1995

Graham Smith Berlin Wall 1988.

Smith directed the VRAAP program (Virtual Reality Artist Access Program) at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto.

2001

1 of 9 invited artists involved in the groundbreaking "Liveform Telekinetics" project that linked Interaccess in Toronto with the WAAG new media centre in Amsterdam with telepresence media.

2007

Smith was the only artist in the international Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) to display 2 large scale works, "MOBI" and "Morphing Machinery" and is one of the founders of the German art collective Cybercity Ruhr which is currently developing “The Third Eye" telepresence exhibition for the European Capital of Culture that will take place in the Ruhr area of Germany in 2010.

Current

An interactive video mural of the Berlin Wall called “Intersection”. Smith's "Intersections Though Time- Berlin Wall '88", consists of three multi-image panoramas, one of which is made up of 600 Polaroid photos. In 2009 he returned to Berlin to create a second piece of the artwork. Documenting the same location, Check Point Charlie but instead using digital cameras creating a 360-degree repeating panoramic view spiraling through time and space.

The "Emoti-chair", a 3-year research project with Ryerson University to develop a way to simulate the effect of sound in movies for deaf people using a combination of non audio sensory inputs.

“Liberation”, an art piece that will allow audiences the ability to experience the sensation of being weightless in orbit around the earth by projecting video to people who are underwater wearing scuba masks and snorkels.

Teaching

2004-08 Utrecht School of the Arts, Industrial Design and Robotics, Utrecht, Netherlands

2004-08 Willem de Kooning Academie, Interaction and Multi Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2006-07 Hanze University Groningen, Frank Mohr Institute, Masters Program, Groningen, NL

1997-98 Avondale Alternative School, Robots and Art, Toronto, Ontario

1993-95 University of Toronto, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Toronto, Ontario

Sources

2007

Revver, http://one.revver.com/watch/243959

New Media Scotland, Poker Club, March 15, Edinburgh, Scotland

WAZ, Kinder Planen, March 13, Eseen Germany

Nord Anzeiger, Cowboy ist ein Roboter, Feb. 24, Eseen Germany

NRZ, Kinder planen die Zukunft, Feb, 23, Eseen Germany

NRZ, Mit einem kleinen Roboter, Feb. 20, Eseen Germany

NRZ, Kunstler unterrichten Schuler, Feb. 19, Eseen Germany

WESTFALENPOST, Wenn die Maschine plotzlich, Feb. 16, Eseen Germany

WAZ, Make-up fur die Sicherheit, Feb, 5, Eseen Germany

Stadtauzeijer, Neue farbe fur die Viehfer Strasse, Feb, Eseen Germany

NRZ, jetzt oder nie in der Nord-city, Feb. 3, Eseen Germany

Ruttensceider, Fur sie hat die Zukunft langst begonnen, Jan., Eseen Germany

2006

WAZ, Gestaltete fassaden in der City, Dec. 2, Eseen Germany

NRZ, Ideen von heute als Hoffnung Fur morgen, Sept. 25, Essen, Germany

WAZ, Wir-Gefuhl, Sept 25, Eseen Germany

NRZ, Neue Ideen Fur die Viehofer, Sept. 25, Eseen Germany

WAZ, Utopia Machen, August 5, Eseen Germany

SWITCH, March 16, V2, Rotterdam Netherlands

2005

Splendid Immersion, June 2, V2, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Re:mote, March 19,Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand

2004

Cumulus Conference, Utrecht School of the Arts, Oct 1, Utrecht, Netherlands

NRC Handelsblad, De aarde op speelfilmlengte, June 4, Ine Poppe

7th Worskshop on Space and the Arts, ESTEC, May 20, Noordwijk, Netherlands

2003

WAAG Society, Sentient Creatures, Nov. 26, Amsterdam, Netherlands

ACSN, From Blackfoot to Robot, Nov. 28, Rotterdam, Netherlands

de Volkskrant, Passanten, Oct. 27, page 4

2002

Performing Arts Journal, The Disembodied eye, pp122–126

2000

Now Magazine, Pandora’s Box, March 4, page 44

Eye magazine, New Media, Oct 19, page 22, Jennifer Leonard

Teleconference Today, May, page 20

1998

Now Magazine, Space Probe, Feb 11, page 34

1996

Now magazine, Cyber swarea, Wilma

1995

Media TV, Electric Skin, City-TV, Aug 17, 8:30pm, Dennis McGarph

Virtual Virtigo, National Centre for the Arts, Mexico City

Virtual Reality Artwork at the McLuhan Program, São Paulo, Brazil

Panoramic Based VR, Toronto SIGGRAPH, Toronto, Canada

Videoconferencing Culture, DotCom, Hamburg, Germany

Visions of the Future, Planning 96, Toronto, Canada

Women's TV Network, CBC TV

Shift Minute, CBC TV

YTV, The Breakfast Zone

Toronto Star, Oct, Page C1, Christopher Hume

Electronic Imaging, Jan 24, Page 35, by Francis Hamit

1994

The Washington Post, Cyber-Culture, G8, Richard Lieby

Shift, The Achilles Stomach of VR, Page 22, Graham Smith

Media TV, VRAAP, City-TV, Aug 17, 8:30pm, Shelia Cameron

The Future, The McLuhan Program, TVO, April 1, 11pm, Nigel Hunt

Media TV, Virtual Sex, City TV, March 20, 8pm, Catherine Dumas

The Virtual Museum, Interaccess, Toronto, Canada

Virtual Reality in Ontario, Culture Technologies Convergence, Toronto, Canada

Cyberspace, multimedia and the artist, Images 94, Toronto, Canada

Virtual Reality Today, Ryerson, Toronto, Canada

Disorientation of the Image, ASTARIE, Paris, France

Engage, Enable, Empower, River Oaks Public School, Oakville, Canada

Cyberspace Virtual Reality and the Artist, Interaccess, Toronto, Canada

1993

Maclean's Magazine, 100 Canadians to Watch, July 5, Page 31, Bruce Wallace

Education and Virtual Reality, Dawson Creek Art Centre, Dawson Creek, Canada

Virtual Reality in the Next Century, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada

Virtual Reality Visionaries, OSIE, Toronto, Canada

Panoramic Imagery in Virtual Reality, Interval Research, San Francisco. USA

NOMAD Thinktank, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada

Art and Music in Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality Systems 93, New York, USA

The Bulletin, Art for Technology's Sake, Pages 6–7, David Todd

CityTV, How Much is To Much, City TV, Nov 8, 6pm, Carlo Basilone

Virtual, L'artista Neccessario, Page 29, Myron Krueger

Much Music, Virtual Reality and Music, Ch. 57, Sept 8, 8pm, Kim Champniss

Species Review, The Videophone at Home, Page 58-60, Graham Smith

SIGGRAPH 93, The Artistic Origins of Virtual Reality, Page 149, Myron Krueger

TV Ontario, The Teachers Awards, Ch. 19, 8pm, June 29, 1993, Louis Fletcher

Maclean's, Virtual Virtuosity, July 5, Page 56, Diane Brady

1992

Cyberart, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Toronto, Canada

1991

Virtual Reality and Photography, Turin Photography Biannual, Turin, Italy

1989

Photo Life, April, Page 13, Ken Hoffman

Toronto Toronto Star, January, Page G4, Christopher Hume

1988

Views, November, Cover, Page 8, Hamish Buchanan

1984

Toronto Star, July, Page D12, Christopher Hume

Photo Communique, December, Cover Page 23,24,25, Micheal Mitchel

Toronto Toronto Star, December, Page F5, Christopher Hume

1982

Vanguard, Fall, Page 32, Micheal Hume

Cybercity Ruhr

Liveform Telekinetics telepresence art project between Canada and The Netherlands

Telepresence art project between Sweden and Canada

Utopia Machen - Cybercity Viehofer Strasse

Mobi - DEAF 2007

Morphing Machinery DEAF 2007- long version in German

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