Completed AHRC Research Grant-funded PhD studentship in 2012. Since completing his PhD, Dr. Dominic Smith now works as Digital Media Projects Manager for Tyneside Cinema, and was recently invited speaker at the BBC Academy/Arts Council digital partnership 'Building Digital Capacity for the Arts'. He originally studied sculpture and electronic installation, and worked at Tyne and Wear Museums for 5 years in curatorial, outreach, and new media development roles. He is one of the founders of Polytechnic, an artists' group that re-purposes technology and explores open source methods of project development. His doctoral research examined the relationship between open source production methods, and art/curating methods.

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