Dr Rebecca Smith
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: R.H.Smith@ljmu.ac.uk
Dr Rebecca Smith is an artist, lecturer, and researcher with specialist expertise and academic interest in art history, contemporary art, digital cultures, fine art, media studies, performance art, politics, technological infrastructures and truth discourses. Her interdisciplinary work engages with art practice and curation, including at internationally recognised festivals such as transmediale festival of art and digital culture.
Degrees
2020, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, PhD
2015, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, MRes in Art and Design - Distinction
2014, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, BA (Hons) History of Art - First Class
Certifications
2017, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, Associate Fellowship
Academic appointments
Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Museum Studies, History of Art and Museum Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, 2023 - present
Lecturer in Art and Performance, Art and Performance, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2023 - present
Sessional Lecturer, School of Education, Liverpool John Moores University, 2020 - 2021
Sessional Lecturer, History of Art and Museum Studies, Fine Art, Foundation in Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - 2021
Teaching Support Officer and Assistant Lecturer, History of Art and Museum Studies, Fine Art, Masters in Research in Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016 - 2019
Highlighted publications
Smith R. 2021. Claiming Kin with the Image: An Instructional Guide for Free-Falling with the Image Publisher Url
Smith R. 2019. Parafictions and Contemporary Media Art 2008-2018 Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology (RE:SOUND 2019) DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Smith R. The Legacy of the Berlin Dada Media Hoaxes in Contemporary Parafictive Acts Dada Data: Contemporary Art Practice in the Era of Post-Truth Politics :55-68 Bloomsbury Visual Arts 9781350227613 DOI Publisher Url
Internet publication
Smith R. 2021. Claiming Kin with the Image: An Instructional Guide for Free-Falling with the Image Publisher Url
Thesis/Dissertation
Smith R. 2020. Parafiction as Matter and Method Fallows C. Public Url
Conference publication
Smith R. 2019. Parafictions and Contemporary Media Art 2008-2018 Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology (RE:SOUND 2019) DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Smith R. 2019. Parafictions: UBERMORGEN.COM as a case study of parafictive practice conducted between 1998 and 2018 JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students, 5 :29-42 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Exhibition
Smith R, Lorkowska M, McAllister N. DIPSTICK
Chapters
Smith R. The Legacy of the Berlin Dada Media Hoaxes in Contemporary Parafictive Acts Dada Data: Contemporary Art Practice in the Era of Post-Truth Politics :55-68 Bloomsbury Visual Arts 9781350227613 DOI Publisher Url
Conference presentation:
The Burden of (Visible) Proof, Images of History XXVIII Visible Evidence, Gdansk, Oral presentation. 2022
Parafictions and Contemporary Art 2008 - 2018, RE:SAW The Web that Was, University of Amsterdam, Oral presentation. 2019
Parafictions and Contemporary Media Art: Ubermorgen as a Case Study of Parafictive Practice Conducted 1998 - 2018, King's CMCI PhD Conference 2018: World in Flux, King's College London, Oral presentation. 2018
Parafictions and Immateriality: The Legacy of the Berlin Dada Media Hoaxes in Contemporary Parafictive Acts, Association for Art History Annual Conference, Courtauld Institute of Art and King's College London, Oral presentation. 2018