Bio
Wesley Smith is a media artist, programmer, and hardware designer focusing on real-time video for performances and installation. He writes his own video processing software. Recently, he has been working on problems of computational geometry and real-time shading and has a strong background in computer vision. He also designs unique hardware interfaces for manipulating video that are both tactile and optical.
He is currently persuing a master's degree in Visual and Spatial Arts and the University of California, Santa Barbara's Media Arts and Technology Program after which he will begin the PhD program there.
| AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS | |
| 2004 | IGERT Research Fellowship , Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program for cross-disciplinary, collaborative graduate research |
| 2002 | The John Boswell Whitehead Award for outstanding achievement in electrical engineering by an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins |
| Sudler Arts Prize, granted to a Senior at Johns Hopkins who has demonstrated excellence and the highest standards of proficiency in the arts | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2005 | MAT PhD, accepted into the MAT PhD program |
| 2004 | MAT Visual and Spatial Arts MA, accepted into the MAT master's program |
| 2003 | Maryland Institute College of Art, completed Post-Baccelaureate program |
| 2002 | Johns Hopkins University, graduated with honors with a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in French |
| EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2005 | SeoNang, 26 November - 4 December, 2005 at Freemont Studios at DXArts, Seattle, WA and ArtSpaceHue, Seoul, Korea |
| 2004 | Axiom, Gallery 4, Baltimore, MD, Arpil 16, 2004 - May 29, 2004 |
| Modular Radiation, Dog Couch, Baltimore, MD, February, 2004 | |
| 2002 | Emergent Behavior, H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, February, 2002 |
| 2001 | Environnements Corporels, Electron Libre, 1 rue de Rivoli, Paris, France, May 2001 |
| PERFORMANCES and SCREENINGS | |
| 2005 | Quiver, Red's Cafe, downtown Santa Barbara, CA |
| Quiver, Fall CREATE concert at UCSB | |
| Proteus, Spring CREATE concert at UCSB | |
| 2003 | Modular Radiation, Gallery 4, Baltimore MD |
| Modular Radiation, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD | |
| Modular Radiation, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA | |