Olga Smith, M.Phil. PhD

Sprechstunde

EcoMethods-Workshop poster 2021-22

Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

• University of Cambridge, Ph.D., History of Art.
• École Normale Supérieure Paris, Residential Studentship.
• University of Cambridge, M.Phil., European Literature and Culture. Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.
• University of Cambridge, B.A., Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Russian). Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

• University of Vienna, Individual Fellowship Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. From 2021.
• Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, Visiting Research Fellow. 2021.
• WIRL Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow (Horizon 2020), Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. 2017-2020.
• Institut national de l’histoire de l’art, Paris, Visiting Fellowship. 2016.
• Postdoctoral Fellow. Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte), Humboldt University of Berlin. 2014-2017.
• Curator of Public Programmes, Tate Galleries, London.
• Teaching Fellow, School of Art History, University of St Andrews.

Publikationsverzeichnis

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Between Theory and Practice: Contemporary Photography in France. Leuven University Press. 2022. Received awards from Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft and Association for Art History.

Edited Volumes

• Guest Editor, Special Issue ‘Photography and Landscape,’ journal Photographies. Vol. 12. 2019.
• (with Peter Collier and Anna Elsner) Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), 359 p.

Articles (peer-reviewed)

• ‘Décentrer la perspective humaine: Le paysage dans l’Anthropocène’, in Danièle Méaux and Jonathan Tichit (eds), Arts Contemporains et Anthropocène (Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2022).
• ‘Exhibition as Film, Film as Exhibition: Philippe Parreno and the Moving Image in the Museum.’ MIRAJ: Moving Image Review & Art Journal, 11: 1 (2022), pp. 34-53.
• ‘Jean Baudrillard and the Challenge of Photography’. MAST: The Journal of Media Art, Study and Theory, 2: 1 (2021), pp. 113-130. ISSN 2691-1566.
• ‘Introduction: Photography and Landscape’. Photographies, Special Issue ‘Photography and Landscape’, 12: 2 (June 2019), pp. 137-142.
• ‘The Reality of the Place Where We Live: Interview with John Davies’, Photographies, Special Issue ‘Photography and Landscape’, 12: 2 (June 2019), pp. 143-153.
• ‘Making Visible: Representing Violence, Resistance and Everyday Life on the Margins’, Photographies, 11: 2-3, June 2018, pp. 235-250.
• ‘Authorless Pictures: Photography in Christian Boltanski’s Early Work (1969-1975)’, Art History, 40: 3 (June 2017), pp. 634-657.
• (with Dina Gusejnova), ‘Die Ästhetik des Zastoi. Boris Mikhailov als Fotograf des letztensowjetischen Jahrzehnts’, Fotogeschichte, 136: 35 (Summer 2015), pp. 43-51.
• ‘The Spaces of Containment: Valérie Jouve’s Urban Portraits’, Nottingham French Studies, 53: 2 (July 2014), pp. 155-168.

Book Chapters & Reference Works

• Co-authored, with Andrew Patrizio, ‘Ecocriticism and Eco-Phenomenologies’ and ‘Visualising Catastrophe and Extinction Studies’, in Barry Sandywell and Martin Hand (eds), The Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Visual Culture (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming in 2024).
• ‘Interview with Olga Smith,’ in Lucy Soutter and Duncan Woolridge (eds), Writer Conversations (London: 1000 words, 2022).
• ‘Climate Migration,’ in Christina Baldacci, Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Shaul Bassi (eds), Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide (Venice: Wetlands Books, 2022). In print.
• ‘Dafna Talmor: Manipulated Landscapes,’ in Dafna Talmor, Constructed Landscapes (Fw: Books, 2020), pp. 33-39.
• ‘Plaines et platitudes: les réinventions du paysage photographique dans l’œuvre de Jean-Marc Bustamante et Joachim Brohm’, in Pierre-Henry Frangne and Patricia Limido (eds), Les inventions photographiques du paysage, du XIXe siècle à nos jours (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016), pp. 49-59.
• ‘Joachim Schmid: Other People’s Photographs’, in Il Presente. Fotografia: Festival Internazionale di Roma (Quodlibet, Rome, 2015), pp. 140-142
• ‘Pierre Huyghe’s travels with Edgar Allan Poe’, in Jörg von Brincken, Ute Gröbel and Irina Schulzki (eds), Fictions/Realities. New Forms and Interactions (München: Martin Meidenbauer, 2012), pp. 85-100.
• (with Dina Gusejnova), ‘The Social Medium: An Introduction’, EitherAnd, The National Media Museum, London, http://eitherand.org/social-medium/social-medium-how-photography-shapes-world/
• ‘Philippe Parreno, 00 PM’, in Tate Summaries (2014): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks
• ‘Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Séance de Shadow II (bleu)’, in Tate Summaries (2014): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks
• ‘Hoaxer’s voyage: Pierre Huyghe’s A Journey that wasn’t’, in Manon Mathias, Maria O’Sullivan, Ruth Vorstman (eds), Display and Disguise (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 205-222.
• ‘“A hollow image of the person”: objects of memory in the art of Christian Boltanski’, in Olga Smith, Peter Collier and Anna Elsner, Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 117-130.

Reviews (selected)

• Hilde van Gelder, Ground Sea: Photography and the Right to Be Reborn. Forthcoming in Focales, No. 7, 2023.
• Karl Kusserow (ed.), Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective. Journal 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, No. 3 (2022), pp. 709-714. DOI: 10.11588/xxi.2022.3.90397.
• Danièle Méaux, Géo-photographies : une approche renouvelée des territoires. History of Photography, Vol. 41, no. 2, (2017), pp. 209-211.

Aktivitäten

• Association for Art History (UK)
• AICA International Association of Art Critics
• European Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology
• Marie Curie Alumni Association
• Ph: The Photography Research Network
• Vienna Anthropocene Network
• Advisory Board of Focales
• Expert Peer-Reviewer for Focales, Arts, photographies and 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual – Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur