T’ai Smith

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T’ai Smith is an assistant professor of Art History at UBC. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Art Journal, Grey Room, Journal of Modern Craft, and Texte zur Kunst. In her forthcoming book, Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Craft to Design, to be published by University of Minnesota Press in late 2014, she looks at how Bauhaus weavers harnessed the language of other media to articulate the specific dimensions of their field. She is currently developing a new book project, provisionally titled “Textile Media and Philosophy,” which will examine the use of textile metaphors in media theory and philosophy since the 19th-century. This summer she will be a fellow at IKKM, at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, Germany.