Kathy Smith

Background

Smith was born in Taree, New South Wales.

Education

She graduated from the Sydney College of the Arts in 1985.

Career

She has been the Chair of DADA since 2004. Shortly after graduation, she was awarded the Sydney Morning Herald Traveling Arts Scholarship for Painting. Her films have screened "internationally, including Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques North-Space Art Gallery, Sundance Film Festival, New York Digital Salon, Hiroshima, Anima Mundi, and Ottawa International Animation Festivals has exhibited internationally at group and solo exhibitions such as Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Conservatorio di Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence, Italy, and the Australian National Gallery, Canberra." Her body of work includes the award-winning animated film, Indefinable Moods (2001).

Indefinable Moods Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques 2001 Computer Graphics International 2001, Hong Kong Rhode Island International Film Festival Prix Leonardo, Italy New York Expo of Short Film & Video, New York Anima Mundi International Animation Festival Rio de Janeiro Brazil Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland Micromuseum of Mediaterra Festival, Greece 14th Foyle Film Festival, Northern Ireland Mediarama 2001 Electronic Art & New Technologies Festival, Spain Canberra International Short Film Festival, Australia Ajjijic International Film Festival, Mexico Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey Banff Mountain Film Festival, Canada Living on the Comet California Institute of the Arts Los Angeles, United States of America Anima Mundi International Animation Festival, Brazil ‘Animania’ International Retrospective of Animation, Italy 5th International Animation Festival, Japan Cardiff International Film Festival, United Kingdom New York International Expo of Short Film & Video Animated Moments American Film Institute Cinema Sydney, Australia 2005 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award in the Creative Arts, University of Southern California, for ‘Indefinable Moods’.

Achievements

• 2005 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award in the Creative Arts, University of Southern California, for ‘Indefinable Moods’ 2002 Best Animated Short, United States of America Film Festival, ‘Indefinable Moods’ 2002 Best Animated Film Convergence Art Festival 2001 First Place, Computer Graphics International 2001 Silver Award, Prix Leonardo Parma Italy, ‘Indefinable Moods’ 2001 Rhode Island International Film Festival, ‘Indefinable Moods’ 2001 Jury Award, New York Expo of Short Film & Video, ‘Indefinable Moods’ 1994 Bronze Award, ‘Living on the Comet’ at the Expo of Short Film & Video New York 1994 Certificate of Merit ‘Living on the Comet’ Cork International Film Festival 1985 Sydney Morning Herald Traveling Arts Scholarship for painting.