[Bio c. 2017]
Trudi is an artist and anthropologist. She works with cultural practices of media and archives. Her current research interests include the role of entropy within archives, and helping to re-establish connections between contemporary photography practices, camera obscuras. She received an interdisciplinary PhD in Anthropology and Visual Art from University of Victoria, Canada.
Trudi's artistic and academic practices are platforms to address the significance of photography by breaking it down to its fundamental properties. Her work explores the way that places like National Parks are maintained through photography; the relationships between archives and photography; and the structure of artworlds as a complex of people, funding, studios and materials.
Her writing and photo-essay work has been published in journals such as Visual Anthropology, Anthropologica, and Imaginations Journal and her artworks have been installed in locations across North America and in venues such as Open Space Gallery, The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and Arts Incubator.
She was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow from 2010-2013; and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholar from 2005-2008. She recently received funding from the British Columbia Arts Council (2016) for the project Furtive and was artist-in-residence at University of Utah Honors College (2013) and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society at UVic (2015).
Since 2009, she has worked with the award-winning collective, Ethnographic Terminalia, curating exhibitions at intersections of art and anthropology.
As artist-in-residence in the Making Culture Lab, Trudi works with Kate Hennessy investigate the role of the anarchival materiality within archives.
[Bio c. 2013]
Trudi Lynn Smith (Canada) is an artist and visual anthropologist who studies practices of photography. She currently holds a position at York University as a SSHRC Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Humanities. In writing, artworks, and performances, she explores the photograph as event, following fleeting moments and shifting visualities in archives and on the ground.
[Bio c. 2010]
Trudi Lynn Smith brings anthropology, art and curatorial practice to bear on her studies of place. Currently finishing her PhD in the Departments of Anthropology and Visual Arts at the University of Victoria, she will take up a Post-Doctoral position at York University in January 2011. Since 2002, she has conducted image-based research into the relationship between photography and national park landscapes in Canada, and how the two constitute one other. In 2007, Trudi participated in the residency “Walking and Art” at the Banff Centre for the Arts where she furthered her exploration of the photograph as event, that is, how photographs are not only something to look at, or objects we can hold, but also acts grounded in place. She is particularly interested in bringing together the methods of art practice and social research and published Repeat Photography as Method in Visual Anthropology in Visual Anthropology (2007). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Finding Aid at The Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2010), Portable Camera Obscura at the Crane Arts as a part of Ethnographic Terminalia (2009), onsite works in Waterton Lakes National Park (2008-2010) and Conduit (with Jamie Drouin) at Open Space Gallery (2011). At present she is engaged in producing installations and bookworks that play with the truth of photography and the always fleeting present. In pursuit of the fleeting moment, she guides invited participants on quests to relocate historical photographs and to install the work Portable Camera Obscura in remote locations of the Canadian wilderness.
[Bio c. 2009]
Trudi Lynn Smith is an interdisciplinary PhD student in the Departments of Anthropology and Visual Art at University of Victoria, Canada. Bringing together anthropology, art, and curatorial practice, she has conducted image-based research in Jasper, Banff and Waterton Lakes National Parks since 2002, investigating the relationship between photography and national park landscapes. She is particularly interested in the entanglement of art and science and explores the productive friction between the two in her research. She specializes in theoretical and methodological approaches to visual research and published in the journal Visual Anthropology (2007). In 2007, Trudi participated in the Artist Residency “Walking and Art”at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Fieldnotes at the Nanaimo Art Gallery (2008), various on-site works in Waterton Lakes National Park (2008-2010) including Portable Camera Obscura (2009-2010), and she has an upcoming exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, AB) in summer 2010.
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| Role | Project |
|---|---|
| Artist | Portable Camera Obscura |