Tiffany Katarina Smith is a media artist and educator whose work traces how images function as systems that shape perception, memory, and behavior.
While earning her MFA at the University of Texas at Austin, her practice shifted toward material processes—particularly 3D printing and UV printing—as ways of understanding how images are translated, degraded, and reconstituted through digital and analog systems.
Using family photos surfaced by the cloud as source material, she produces hybrid portrait landscapes that treat images as data continuously reshaped by machines. These works engage with Jussi Parikka’s concept of the operational image, in which images function less as objects to be viewed and more as instructions to be executed.
Smith’s work has been exhibited across the United States, including at the Visual Arts Center, Co-Lab Projects, Ivester Contemporary, Design Austin, and the Museum of Human Achievement. Her interactive, time-based works have been presented by the School for Poetic Computation at the Museum of the Moving Image and NEW INC’s DEMO2025 at Water Street Projects in New York.
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