Ash Eliza Smith
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Speculative Design Lab, Assistant Professor
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2023
Ash Eliza Smith, Assistant Professor, Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States. Smith is an artist and designer using storytelling, worldbuilding, and speculative design to shape new realities. Smith incorporates strategies of liveness, play and participatory co-design to to create prototypes of the future.
ISEA2022
Ash Smith is a speculative artist, designer and researcher who creates stories for film, stage and immersive play. She comes to Nebraska from the University of California at San Diego, where she was a lecturer and the associate director of their Art and Technology program.
In her work, Smith incorporates strategies of play and speculation to solve problems, re-imagine systems and build worlds to create interactive stories, mixed reality experience, simulations and prototypes of the future. In addition to teaching, Smith works on the speculative design team at Hyundai’s The Design Lab, where her pioneering work focuses on robotaxis and microbility.
Smith received her Master of Fine Arts in visual arts from the University of California at San Diego and a Master of Arts in performance studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She received her Bachelor of Arts in media and technology studies and media production from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has also completed a Spanish language immersion program at the University of Havana in Cuba.
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Last Known Location:
- Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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Title: Live Participatory Worldbuilding with GPT-3: A Radio Play and Transmission Symposium: | Organiser/Presenter(s):
Title: Radio Play: Live Participatory Worldbuilding and Performance with GPT Symposium: | Organiser/Presenter(s):
