Ash Smith
Assistant Professor and Edgeworks NRI Grant Co-Principal Investigator School of Art, Art History & Design University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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CEMA 244
Lincoln NE 68588-0205 - Phone
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402-472-2615 On-campus 2-2615
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ash.e.s@unl.edu
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Ash Eliza Smith is an artist and designer who uses storytelling, worldbuilding, and speculative design to shape new realities. Smith works across art and science, between fact and fiction, and with human and non-human agents such as animals, plants, and machines to re-imagine the past and future of technology, systems, and rural-urban ecologies. Her work uses liveness, play, and participatory co-design, resulting in interactive stories, films, mixed reality theater, live-action role-plays (LARPs), and future prototypes. Smith is a visiting fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and is an Assistant Professor at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. She received her MFA from the Visual Arts program at UCSD, where she worked as an affiliate of the UCSD Design Lab and associate director of the Culture, Art, and Technology department. Previously, she attended the Performance Studies program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith has presented work at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Qualcomm Institute (Gallery QI), and La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival.