EXHIBITIONS

BRADBURY ART MUSEUM

I THINK WE SHOULD SEE OTHER PEOPLE

An exhibition of artwork exploring fourteen months of contagious pathogens, individual isolation, and societal collapse

May 27 - July 7

Memphis transmedia artist, Cameron Buckley, and multimedia Boston area artist, Daniel Alexander Smith, combine an eclectic range of media from oil painting to artificial intelligence to wooden sculpture to video installation, in order to construct an introspective vision of the Covid crisis. Smith's figural work depicts the flattening of individual experience during the pandemic, while Buckley's conceptual installations portray the transformation of social culture and media.

Since 2015, Buckley and Smith have collaborated on new media artworks which dismantle political and geographic boundaries facing artists in today's fragmented cultural landscape. Buckley, Assistant Professor of New Media and Game Design at Arkansas State, has exhibited his work internationally at biennales, festivals, museums, and alternative exhibitions spaces. Smith is Design Manager at Studio Echelman, where he oversees development of Janet Echelman's architectural fiber sculptures. Independent of the studio, Smith creates multimedia artworks which have been commissioned for projects funded by Google, Epson, Boston Cyberarts, The Illuminus Festival, and Hubweek, among others.