Miriam Simun & Gillian Smith
Miriam Simun
Miriam Simun is an artist whose work spans video, sculpture, scent, food, writing, public performance and numerous other disciplines. Often based in ethnographic, historical and scientific research, her work has been called “Performance as Research/Research as Performance.” Among her chief concerns are are attending to sensorial, embodied forms of knowledge; exploring the messy complexities and contradictory poetics residing at the intersection of Nature/Culture/Power; and developing the means to imagine alternate futures.
Gillian Smith
Dr. Smith's research interests are in computational creativity, game design, computer science education, and the intersection of traditional crafts and computation. Her interdisciplinary work merges technical research in AI and HCI with creative practice in textiles and games, with a view towards addressing social issues and broadening participation and perspectives on computing.
