Biography
Greg J. Smith is a Toronto-based designer and researcher with interests in media theory and digital culture. His work is invested in exploring how contemporary information paradigms affect representational and spatial systems. These dynamics have been explored in a range of mediums including drawing, visualization, writing and editing. Greg is a principal designer at Mission Specialist, he co-curates and edits the digital arts publication Vague Terrain and is a contributor to Rhizome.
Greg has presented work at venues and institutions which include Medialab-Prado (Madrid), the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy (Los Angeles), the Public Memories Project (Syracuse), soundaXis (Toronto), Université de Montréal and The School of Architecture at Waterloo. He has taught digital humanities for Communications Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University and been a guest reviewer at the University of Toronto, Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Ryerson University and the Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design (LAIAD).
Greg received a Masters in Architecture from John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto in 2007. He also studied design at LAIAD and received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1999.
Select Bibliography
- “Critical Sections”Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (forthcoming)
- “YOU SUCK: An Airlock Lexicon” in Junk Jet No. 3. 2010.
- "Continuous City: The Impossibility of Understanding in the Path of a Torontonian" catalog essay for "The Impossibility of Understanding" at Convenience, Toronto, Jan. 15-Feb. 13, 2010.
- “Information Visualization and Interface Culture” in Handbook of
Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics. (eds.
James Braman, Giovanni Vincenti) Hershey: IGI Global, 2009. - Beyond the Edifice: Architectural Visualization Reconsidered published online as part of proceedings for VISUALIZAR’08: Database City. Madrid: Medialab-Prado, 2008.
- Smith, Greg J., and Jackie Kriekle, eds. Infrastructure: 2005 al&d Thesis Publication. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Rhizome Articles
- Imperfect Sound Forever: Caleb Kelly's "Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction" - Jan. 2010.
- Notes on Going Under: A DEVO Primer - Oct. 2009.
- Racing the Beam: The Atari VCS as Platform - July 2009.
- Variable Frame Rate: Multimedia Performance at MUTEK 2009 - June 2009.
- Means of Production: Fabbing and Digital Art - Mar. 2009.
- Out of Context: Artists and Web Inventories - Jan. 2009.
- Interface Aesthetics at the Dept. of Rhythmanalysis - Dec. 2008.
- Mitchell Whitelaw Interview - Nov. 2008.
Conference Papers / Public Lectures
- Networked Geography - Dorkbot Toronto. Mar. 25, 2010.
- Drafting Boards and Patch Cords - Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design (Los Angeles, USA). Apr. 2, 2009.
- Beyond the Edifice: Architectural Representation Reconsidered - VISUALIZAR’08: Database City, Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain). Nov. 4, 2008.
- Critical Sections: Indexing 20th Century Architectural and Cinematic Space in Los Angeles - Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse University (Syracuse, USA). Oct. 4th, 2008.
Informal Presentations / Panel Discussions
- Content Management - Paths to Practice: Alternate Career Paths Panel, The School of Architecture at Waterloo (Waterloo, Canada). Oct. 3, 2009.
- Urban Screens - Ignite Toronto (Toronto, Canada). Aug. 25, 2009.
- Architecture and the Blogosphere - Postopolis! LA: Media Panel (Los Angeles, USA). Apr. 6, 2009.
- Curate the Glitch - talk20 (Toronto, Canada). Sept. 20, 2007.
- Los Angeles Disremembered - Vectors Workshop, USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy (Los Angeles, USA). June 14, 2006.
