August 2011
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith is a Wellington-based artist who works in a wide-range of media, specialising in cross-platform, trans-disciplinary installation practice.
Her work often examines and engages with new technologies and the futuristic ideals and challenges these inventions present, with a recent focus on internet culture, 3-dimensional printing, open source art, and space colonisation. Her work has been shown internationally as well as throughout New Zealand, and she has works held in private and public collections including the Wallace Trust, the Wellington City Council, and Massey University.
Recent career highlights include: inclusion in “The Obstinate Object” – a major survey of contemporary NZ Sculpture at City Gallery Wellington in 2012; being commissioned by AUT’s CoLab research centre to develop a video work for Air New Zealand’s Inflight Entertainment programme (screened on all international flights in early 2013); being commissioned by the acclaimed public art group “Letting Space” to create Pioneer City a major installation in downtown Wellington in 2012; and being selected as one of the first artists to create a billboard artwork for Wellington City Council’s Ghuznee St Art Billboard series.
Holloway-Smith has won the bi-annual New Zealand Open Source Arts Award 2 years running: once in 2010 for Ghosts In The Form Of Gifts and again in 2012 for Whisper Down The Lane.
She has served the NZ arts sector in several roles, including sitting on the Enjoy Public Art Gallery Trust from 2008-2012; working as Project Coordinator for the widely acclaimed One Day Sculpture public art series in 2008-2009; and her current role: Teaching Learning Projects Advisor at Massey University College of Creative Arts.
In 2008 she co-founded – and is current Director of – the Creative Freedom Foundation: a not-for-profit New Zealand artist’s copyright advocacy group. Being spokesperson for the 2009 CFF-led “internet blackout” online public protest that gained significant media attention in NZ and overseas, paving the way for high-profile 2012 SOPA/PIPA blackout protests in the USA. Subsequently earning a place on the NZ National Business Review’s 2009 list of the “25 Most Powerful People In Technology”.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from Massey University and is currently studying copyright at Harvard University through the online education network EdX.
Education
CopyrightX course
Harvard University/edX, 2013 (currently studying)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours)
Massey University, 2006
Exhibitions & Projects
2013
Welcome to Pioneer City (video)
CoLab New Terrains Commission, Air New Zealand in-flight entertainment programme (all international flights), Jan-March 2013
2012
Fair Deal: Copyright, the Public Domain and Fair Dealing in the New Zealand Creative Sector
Museum of Modern Activity (MoMA), Wellington, from 7 Dec 2012
Curator: Dr Dan Clark
Ménage à trois: Artist-run Spaces Exchange in the Asia-Pacific Region
XYZ Collective, Tokyo, Oct 5 – 28 2012
TCB artinc., Melbourne, Oct 24 – Nov 10 2012
New Zealand Curator: Claudia Arozqueta
Social Interface
RAMP, Hamilton, 25 April – 16 May 2012
Curator: Melanie Oliver
Improbable Objects
What It Is, Chicago, IL, USA, 29 March–28 April 2012
The Obstinate Object
City Gallery Wellington, 24 February–10 June 2012
Curator: Aaron Lister and Abby Cunnae
2011
10:13
The Engine Room, Massey University School of Fine Arts, Wellington, 3–19 November 2011
Curators: Kate Adolph and Johnathan Titheridge
Small & Beautiful Takeaways
Mahara Gallery, Waikanae, 14 August – 13 November 2011
Game On
Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, 9 July – 2 October 2011
Curators: Jacob Scott and John Walsh
Pioneer-City.com (solo)
Letting Space public art commission. Ground Floor, Soho Apartments, 80 Taranaki St, Wellington, 17 June – 10 July 2011
Curators: Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram
Pioneer City (Billboard) (solo)
Ghuznee St Art Billboard, Wellington, 28 March – July 2011
Place Makers
The Engine Room, Wellington, 17 March – 9 April 2011
Curators: Anne Noble, Amanda Yates and Jenny Gillam
Lost and Found
Bartley + Company Art, Wellington, 2-27 March 2011
CALH 2011
Flock House, Bulls, 11-13 February 2011
Curator: Sarah-Jane Parton
The Un-Sited
Hancock Gallery: City Gallery Wellington, 29 January – 1 May 2011
Curator: Aaron Lister
2010
Enjoy Recipes Illustrated
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 29 September – 16 October 2010
Colonial Real Estate, presenting the new territories
Page work and website, Hue & Cry Journal, Issue 4, launched 24 June 2010, ISSN 1178-2374
Surplus and Creativity
DOC Conservation House, Wellington, 15-26 November 2010
2009
Ringworm
Clubfoot Initiative, Wellington, 19 December 2009
Curator: Melanie Oliver
Ghosts in the form of gifts
Permanent installation, Executive Seminar Suite, Massey University Wellington and online, unveiled 8 December 2009
2008
The Third Artist’s Film Festival
New Zealand Film Archive mediaplex, Wellington, 11 April – 17 May 2008. Also shown at The Physics Room, Christchurch, 4-7 June 2008
Curator: Paula Booker
Séance for Nam June Paik
School of Fine Arts Gallery Basement, Christchurch Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand. Screened as part of Tending Networks: the fifth Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) symposium, and in conjunction with The Physics Room’s public exhibitions programme, 23 February 2008
Curator: Dan Agnihotri-Clark
2007
Living Together
Hirschfeld Gallery: City Gallery, Wellington, 23 November 2007 – 27 January 2008
Curator: Jessica Reid
Mighty Box
Square2: City Gallery, Wellington, 5 November – 9 December 2007
Territorial Pissings
The Engine Room Gallery, Wellington, 8-25 August 2007
Curator: Caroline Johnston
2006
An Introduction to the Theory of Everything
Hirschfeld Gallery: City Gallery, Wellington, 21 December 2006 – 11 February 2007
Curator: Jessica Reid
Wildlife (solo)
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, 27 October – 5 November 2006
The Drawing Show
The Engine Room Gallery, Wellington, 16 August – 1 September 2006
Working Title
Show Gallery, Wellington, 13 July – 5 August 2006
Makebelieve
Rm 103, Auckland, 6-15 July 2006
Draw’n’
110 Devon St New Plymouth, 24-25 June 2006
Curators: Bruce Phillips and Justin Morgan
2005
To There and Back Again
University of Southern Queensland, Toowomba, 20 April – 15 May 2005
2004
CupCup, with Thomas Baryle
Dowse Art Museum, 11 September – 14 November 2004
Employment
Current
Teaching & Learning Projects Advisor, Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Office, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, December 2011 – present
Past
Assistant to the Research Directors, Research Office, Pro Vice Chancellor’s Office, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, July 2010-December 2011
Executive Secretary and Website Redevelopment Project Manager, Unlimited Potential, July 2007 – February 2011
Conference Manager, IE2010: The 7th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, October – November 2010
Project Coordinator, One Day Sculpture, Litmus Research Initiative, Massey University, Jan 2008 – April 2009
Professional Affiliations (Voluntary)
Current
Director and Co-Founder, Creative Freedom Foundation, 2008-present
Past
Trustee, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2008-2012
Awards & Recognition
2012
NZ Open Source Society: Award for Open Source in the Arts
Massey University College of Creative Arts: RATAS Award for Excellence in Support
CoLab (AUT creative technology centre): Awarded video commission for Air New Zealand’s in-flight entertainment system (completed May 2012, screened December 2012-February 2013)
Photo Remix Judge: Mix & Mash 2011 Competition
2010
Wellington City Council Public Art Panel: Awarded billboard commission (completed March-July 2011)
Letting Space: Awarded public art project commission (completed June-July 2011)
NZ Open Source Society: Award for Open Source in the Arts
Affect Centre for Design Research: Surplus & Creativity Award: Softer on Materials
2009
National Business Review: 25 Most Powerful People in Technology list
Massey University Wellington Acquisitions Team: Awarded 10th Anniversary Commission (completed in 2009)
Selected Public Presentations
The Readymade Revisited, invited panel member, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 3 October 2012. In conjunction with the exhibition “Peripheral Relations: Marcel Duchamp & New Zealand Art 1960-2011″
Making The Most Of Creative Opportunities, invited panel member, NetHui 2012, Sky City Convention Centre, Auckland, 13 August 2012
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith and David Cross, artist talk, City Gallery Wellington, 4 May 2012
Pioneer-City.com Public Discussion, artist talk, Film Archive MediaPlex, Wellington, 15 July 2011
Online Public Meeting on the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) legislation: what happened, what it means and what the future holds, guest speaker, Bowen House and online, 25 May 2011
Fair Dealing, Fair Use and New Zealand, paper presentation, Art & Law symposium, Faculty of Law University of Otago and Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, 29 October 2010
Inquiry into Copyright, invited expert witness to the Commerce Committee, Youth Parliament, Government Buildings, Wellington, 6 July 2010
The Pioneer, invited art project pitch, Urban Dream Brokerage, Adam Auditorium, City Gallery Wellington, 6 May 2010
ACTA Panel, invited panellist, PublicACTA Conference, Wellington Town Hall, 10 April 2010
Repeat Infringers and Related Issues, paper presentation, The Copyright Future: Authors, Owners, Orphans, Users and Repeat Infringers, New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law Symposium, Spectrum Theatre, Victoria University of Wellington, 30 October 2009
Introduction to Copyright in NZ, workshop, Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium, Friday June 26, 2009
Copyright and Licensing Panel, panellist, Digital Learning Resources Conference: A Day in the Life of a Digital Learning Resource, Illot Theatre, Wellington Town Hall, 19 March 2009
Bibliography
At the end of the day: Richard Meros
Written response to Pioneer-City.com, Letting Space, November 2011. Published online.
Game On: A Selectors Choice of Contemporary New Zealand Artists, Jacob Scott and John Walsh
Exhibition catalogue, Hastings City Art Gallery, 2011. ISBN 978-0-473-19122-1
Utopia Hedonism, Kate Linzey
Place Makers exhibition catalogue, Massey University School of Fine Arts Litmus Research Initiative, 2011. ISBN 0-9864625-0-4
The Un-Sited: from the Wellington City Council City Art Collection, Aaron Lister
Exhibition catalogue, City Gallery Wellington, 2011.
Enjoy Recipes Illustrated, Edited by the Enjoy Trust: Amit Charan, Ann Shelton, Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Kate Woods and Molly Samsell. Design and layout by Duncan Munro.
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2010. ISBN 978-0-473-18182-6
Working Title, Raewyn Martyn
Written response to Working Title at SHOW, Enzyme Publishing, 2009, pp. 92-94. ISBN 0-9582706-0-0
Available via: http://www.show.net.nz/
S.O.S. – Save us from ourselves, Mark Williams
Written response to Wildlife, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2007, pp. 68-71
Interview with the artists, Jessica Reid, et. al
On the occasion of An Introduction to the Theory of Everything, City Gallery Wellington, 2006
Wildlife, Bronwyn Smith and Louise Menzies in conversation
Published for the exhibition Wildlife, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2006. Available from Enjoy Public Art Gallery
Together/Apart: five Wellington artists explore displacement and location, Andrea Bell
Published for the exhibition Sister City, Blindside, 2006. ISBN: 0-9775235-6-X
Selected Writing
The last of the magicians, catalogue essay, published online, 2009.
Review of Actron and Reactron by Peter Trevelyan. Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 18 Oct-3 Nov, 2007
Peace may reign, catalogue essay, published online, 2008.
Review of Gospel by Murray Hewitt. Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 3-19 April, 2008. Published online
Words, and the lack of them, catalogue essay, published online, 2007.
Review of Your words in my mind become mind. Your words are mind now. by Layla Rudneva-Mackay. Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 11-28 July, 2007
So, where’s the art?, Article Review of No. 10* by Tao Wells. The Engine Room, 12-29 April, 2006
Magneto Magazine, Vol #13: Issue 03, 2006.
Interview with Monique Redmond about her project Inhabitants developed for LITMUS and exhibited at Massey University from 11-21 October 2005
Magneto Magazine, Vol #12: Issue 05, 2005.
Selected Media
Art For Cool’s Sake | By Todd Atticus | Salient | Published 5 June, 2012
Glancing at the History of Digital Art | By Peter Dornauf | EyeContact | Published 6 May, 2012
The Stubbornness of Sculpture 2 | By Mark Amery | EyeContact | Published 10 April, 2012
Pioneer City| By Rebecca Lancashire | The Listener | Issue 3711| Published June 20, 2011
Prime real estate? Look to the sky | By Diana Dekker | The Dominion Post: Your Weekend magazine | Published on June 20, 2011
Pioneer City (interview: mp3) | With Lynn Freeman | Radio NZ National: The Arts on Sunday | Aired on June 12, 2011 | Also available in Ogg Vorbis format
Exploring alternatives for our cities | Art News New Zealand | Autumn 2011 issue
Location, location, location | By Robert Johnson | The Wellingtonian | Published May 19, 2011
A second public art billboard project | By Alison Bartley | Connecting With Art (Blog) | Published March 28, 2011
3D printer deployed for the cause of art: Exhibition poses questions about technology and art | By Rob O’Neill | Computerworld | 28 January 2010
Makers and their magic machines | By Rob O’Neill | Sunday Star Times, p. C9.| 17 January 2010
Ghuznee St Art Billboard, Wellington, 28 March – July