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  • Fugitives in the Archive exhibition by Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy. Photograph by Rachel Topham

    What’s Insight Magazine

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith July 1, 2018March 4, 2023

    What’s Insight Magazine July 2018. Check out the write up Kate Hennessy and I put together on our research-creation work at the Royal British Columbia Museum Fugitives: Anarchival Materiality in Archives

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  • Trudi Lynn Smith at Chicago Field Museum archives. Photo by Kate Hennessy

    Fugitives

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith July 1, 2018March 4, 2023

    Geist Magazine July 2018. Kate Hennessy and I were invited to create a photo-essay of our work with anarchival materiality  for the spring 2018 edition of Geist Magazine. Fugitives explores the shape and smell of…

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  • Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest

    Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith May 2, 2018March 4, 2023

    Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest May to September 2018. Excited to be invited to show A Continuous Slow Movement (Drift Camera) at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria! On view: May to September 2018…

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  • Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith video showing anarchival materiality in archives

    Anarchival materiality

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2018August 15, 2023

    Anarchival materiality within archives is an ongoing research-creation project that documents the generative force of entropy in archives. The force of molecular transformation, violence, displacement, and other human and non-human agencies render archival materials as fugitives, both eluding and driving preservation.

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  • Image showing exhibition Fugitives in the Archive. Photograph By Rachel Topham

    Fugitives in the Archive

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith February 17, 2018March 4, 2023

    Kate Hennessy and my exhibition Fugitives in the Archive at the Royal British Columbia Museum’s Pocket Gallery and Lightbox Gallery opened on Nov. 2 2018 and ran until January 1, 2019.

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  • Swimming in Lake Linnet, Waterton Lakes National Park 2013

    Linnet Lake

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith September 26, 2017September 23, 2018

    Watch the video footage here   The impermanent return: Photography, protected areas and the matter of Linnet Lake. This is a film still from Lake Linnet, in Waterton Lakes National Park. The film still shows…

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  • Swimming in Lake Linnet, Waterton Lakes National Park 2013

    Linnet Lake

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith September 23, 2017August 15, 2023

    A line in process by Jenaya Webb, an open water swimmer, anthropologist, and librarian, who I work with in parks and protected areas. This is experimental feminist praxis, fieldwork that prioritizes lake swimming as a way to explore the ‘thick description’ of embodied gestures, lines, abstraction in film and photography, the social life of rumours, and ‘swimmer’s itch’.

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  • Breath Camera at UMaryland Seminar in Digital Cultures and Creativity: students surrounding wearing Breath Camera.

    Digital Cultures

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith September 14, 2017August 14, 2023

    Fall 2017. Invited scholar, Digital Cultures and Creativity, University of Maryland. Workshop on respiration and photography with the Breath Camera. Students are part of the Seminar Fleshy Futures: Technologies and the Body.

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  • Pup Tent Camera Obscura

    Pup Tent Camera Obscura

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith January 30, 2017August 14, 2023

    Pup Tent Camera Obscura is a repurposed 1970s/80s McKinley A-frame tent modified to be completely dark inside and fitted with a set of simple lenses on one end. Inside the room the lens projects the world outside onto the walls of the room and onto hand-held paper.

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  • showing Imagine our Parks website, a collaborative project between Krista Cabellero and Trudi Lynn Smith

    Imagine Our Parks Press Release

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith June 11, 2016March 4, 2023

    I have been working on a collaborative project with Krista Caballero alongside invited artists Rebecca Clark, Hali Felt, Katie Hargrave, Sharon Mansur, Emily Nilsen, Ebony Rose. This week, we launch our traveling experimental installation along…

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