MICHAEL BELL-SMITH
ARTIST TALK + SCREENING

EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 6:30 pm

In his first artist talk in New York City, Michael Bell-Smith spoke at EAI about his innovative media works and digital art practice. Bell-Smith talked about how he uses digital forms to explore contemporary visual culture and how it is mediated through popular technologies. Directly referencing art historical and painting traditions as well as the visual vocabulary of the Internet, Bell-Smith's rigorously constructed, highly conceptual works suggest new directions and possibilities in digital art. New and recent works works by the artist were also screened.