TEDxLeeds - Megan Smith - Embedding Narrative August 22, 2011

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Megan Smith is a new media artist and PhD candidate in Contemporary Fine Art Practice at Leeds Metropolitan University. She uses the web as a space to source and make socially useful work. Her projects probe new systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with Arduino, geo-location, digital print, video, and installation or a hybridization of all of these.

She is the recipient of an Arts Council of England grant for the arts for her recent work Pst! microCONTROL, shown at Watermans Art Centre in London as part of the 'Unleashed Devices' exhibition. Her work was also included in 'Twitter/Art+Social Media' at the Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver, and was part of the Leeds pavilion at the 'Amsterdam Biennale' in 2009. She is one of three people behind the development of Our City, Our Music, a geo-located audio-visual album in Leeds, which was supported by HPLabs and was nominated for two awards in the 'Northern Design Competition'. She is co-founder of DoGoSee.com, a location-based mapping project made with mobile devices. Smith is also an Associate Lecturer at Leeds College of Art.

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