Craig Smith Live in the Planetarium w/ Visualizers by Marina Sachs

Original songs by Craig Smith written by Smith and Dave Copenhaver performed live with visuals by Marina Sachs in the Santa Fe College Kika Silva Pla Planetarium’s Dome. Smith is a visual and performing artist who has created exhibitions and live multimedia events in cities across the world. This will be Smith’s first live music performance in Gainesville. Smith will perform songs from his recent album Emerald Cut and other tunes budding with the young energy of urban art rock.

Craig Smith is a visual and performing artist whose research and practice explores the foundations of social relations as an agent in cultural production. Smith creates photographs, videos, sounds, and live performances for a wide range of exhibition spaces including museums, galleries, athletic facilities, health care clinics, and financial institutions. Smith has been included in solo exhibitions and performances across thirteen countries. Smith has been featured as PS1MOMA in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., and has been featured as an artist and a curator by CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, one of New York state’s oldest not-for-profit galleries specializing in testing the boundaries of the photographic. Smith’s most recent book of photography is entitled American Ace: Limited Edition (with Ben Wise) and is available from Printed Matter in NYC. His most recent book of theory is entitled Relational Art: A Guided Tour (published by Bloomsbury LLC). Smith has released multiple sound recordings with both Lunacy Records and Legacy 405 (produced by Dave Copenhaver) and has performed these sound pieces live at venues including the Cantor Film Center in New York City and the Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) in Beijing, China. Smith is currently a senior faculty member in the College of the Arts at the University of Florida.