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562 Fisgard wall. Trudi Lynn Smith and Lynda Gammon. 12 - 16x20" contact photographs.

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562 Fisgard wall. Trudi Lynn Smith and Lynda Gammon. 12 - 16x20" contact photographs.
Trudi Lynn Smith

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  • Conduit Open Space showing mirrors reflecting the skylight in Open Space Gallery 2011

    Conduit: Open Space

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2016March 4, 2023

    Using the central skylight in a gallery as a starting point, Jamie Drouin and I direct frequencies into the Open Space Arts Society space using simple lenses, mirrors and antennae. (2011-2013).

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  • film still by Jamie Drouin of Conduit Roundhouse

    Conduit

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2016March 4, 2023

    A modified swing-lens Kodak Panoram broken and rebuilt to reconsider the interface between time and space in photographic embodiments.

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  • detail images of exhibition finding aid by Trudi Lynn Smth

    Finding Aid

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2016March 4, 2023

    An ongoing performed archive and exhibitions (2009-) documenting the productive failure of re-enactments of photographs in mountain environments of Canadian National Parks.

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  • Image showing portable camera obscura

    Portable Camera Obscura

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2016July 12, 2024

    Portable Camera Obscura is an immersive technology. It is a walk-in, room-sized camera – a tent that breaks into multiple pieces to refigure relations between people, images and materials.

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  • Installation view showing Trudi Lynn Smith under darkcloth of 16x20 camera

    562 Fisgard

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2016March 4, 2023

    This work resulted in a two-volume set of books published by flask, and a paper presentation at the International Visual Sociology Association in summer 2009.

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  • Ethnographic Terminalia

    Ethnographic Terminalia

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2016March 4, 2023

    The Ethnographic Terminalia curatorial collective explores the boundaries of anthropology and art through exhibitions, experimental installations, events and publications. Working since 2009, we’ve shown more than 150 artists in locations across North America.

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  • Breath Camera at City of Rocks, Oregon. artist: Trudi Lynn Smith

    Breath Camera

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith January 30, 2016March 4, 2023

    The Breath Camera is a wearable camera form about impermanence: camera bellows, viewing screen, and a 3 x 9 foot darkcloth mix the fleshy with the fleeting.

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  • photograph of the interior space of a portable camera obscura artwork at Ideasfest UVic

    Talk at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society (CSRS) at University of Victoria

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2015March 4, 2023

    My presentation on my works, Portable Camera Obscura and the Breath Camera at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society….

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  • Image of a photocollage showing Dawson's 1874 image of present day Waterton Lake with collaged butterflies by Trudi Lynn Smith

    Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2014March 4, 2023

    My visual research into contested territories of parks and protected areas in North America explores the affective force of photography. I work with scientists, tourists, artists and locals to explore and connect ecological and social…

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I acknowledge with respect that I live on the territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. I am an uninvited settler on these territories.

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