Symposium

Sorting Daemons Symposium

Program Information

Sarah E.K. Smith is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Art at Queen's University. Her research scope is modern and contemporary visual and material culture, with specific interest in the intersections of art, visuality, and critical theory, as well as the ways in which artists have adopted, subverted, and resisted modes of surveillance. She is a founder and co-editor of the new online journal Shift: Queen's Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture. Smith published "The Mexican/Canadian Video Exchange: Contemporary Art as 'Post-Nation'?" in the Revista Mexicana de Estudios Canadienses, 2007. In 2009, she presented "Evaluating the Transgressive Potential of Performance: René Francisco's El Romerillo Trilogy" at the Universities Art Association of Canada annual conference, and her upcoming plans include presentation of "Remix: Indigenous Visual Culture in Narratives of the New North America" at the College Art Association annual conference in 2010. She was awarded a SSHRCC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement in support of research to be undertaken at the Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, winter 2010.