Samara Smith

documentary + technology + social practice

Posts by: Samara Smith

Central Park: Democratic Playground

Delivered through an innovative “location aware” smartphone app (Detour), Central Park: Democratic Playground utilized responsive GPS triggers to adjust with the speed and the path of the user, creating an immersive, personalized experience. Narrated by Adrian Benepe, who served as New York’s…

On Hamburger Square

Created for Elsewhere Museum, this Virtual Reality sound montage is a community portrait of Greensboro’s Hamburger Square told through the stories of its citizens exploring the past, present, and future of the city’s historic crossroads. Augmented Reality links montages of community…

Chain Reaction (Westwood)

Locative Game exhibited at the Hammer Museum as part of the group show, Game Room. Designed to bring visitors out of the gallery and into the surrounding neighborhood, players picked up instructions at the gallery and used them to navigate…

Anyplace Brooklyn

Anyplace, Brooklyn

Anyplace, Brooklyn, an audio walking tour of Downtown Brooklyn, premiered at Conflux, the annual New York Festival for Contemporary Psychogeography, in September, 2007.  Participants described the experience as “eye-opening,” “multi-layered,” “complex,” “nuanced,” and “informative and thoughtful.” “Part art project, part…