T'ai Smith
Individual
Roles
Curator, Educator, Writer, Curator, Educator, WriterBiography
T’ai Smith received her MA and PhD from the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and her BA in Visual Arts/Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University. In addition to her teaching and advising role in the department, she is a core member of the Group for Media Research in the Faculty of Arts at UBC.The recipient of several awards and grants, including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (2016) and the American Craft Council Emerging Scholar Award (2015), she has been a Wall Scholar in residence at the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies at UBC (2014–15) and a Senior Fellow at IKKM (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturktechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie) in Weimar, Germany (Summer 2014).
Concerned with the politics of mediation, gender, labor, and economy, Smith’s research, teaching, and advising focus on the areas of modern and contemporary European and American art and design, visual studies, critical theory, media theory and cultural techniques.
For her current SSHRC-funded project, Smith is drafting a second book manuscript, Fashion After Capital: Frock Coats and Philosophy from Marx to Duchamp. She has also developed, in collaboration with graduate students, a public Facebook group concerning fashion and modes in modern and contemporary art, media, economy, and culture.
Adapted from UBC, 2024;