About Steven Smethurst
Steven Smethurst is a Vancouver based maker, hacker, and installation artist. Steven primarily works with light and technology. Light changes everything around it. It’s messy and bleeds into and over everything. It is loud and demands attention but its effects are temporary. Remove the light from the environment and the environment returns to its natural, unaltered state. Steven’s technological background adds unique interactive elements to his work. His work reacts to people, inviting them to touch, play and interact with his installations.
Exhibitions
- (2020) City of glass, Luminescence V Deer Lake Gallery
- (2019) Illuminated Stained Glass Tetragonal Trapezohedron, Vancouver Maker Faire 2019
- (2019) Stained Glass Windows, Luminescence IV Deer Lake Gallery, Vancouver Maker Faire 2019
- (2018) Stained Glass Windows, Vancouver Culture crawl.
- (2018) Edge lit lantern, re-vision Granville Island vancouver
- (2018) Pillar of Tetris, Sh’Bang festival
- (2017) LED Pillar, Vancouver Mini Maker faire
- (2017) Thunderstorm cloud, Luminescence Deer Lake Gallery, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2017) Laser Kaleidoscope, Luminescence Deer Lake Gallery, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2017) Fairmont Pacific Rim Bike Carousel, Chapel Arts and Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel
- (2017) Asics cloud project, HFour Studios
- (2016) Heart of Mount Pleasant, Vancouver Foundation
- (2016) Branchy light box, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, Burning man
- (2016) Ball of life, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, Basecoast, Burn in the forest
- (2016) CNC Zen Garden, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2016) Make the night, Absolute Make the night
- (2015) Pocket Universe, Burning man, Burn in the forest, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, SHHH25
- (2015) The 100 Day Project, The Great Discontent
- (2015) Mapping fairy Doors, Vancouver
- (2014) Thread map of vancouver, Maker labs
- (2014) The Giant Claw Game!, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2013) Glowing Vest, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2012) Tornado art, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2012) Teeth - Hot One Inch Action
Awards and Grants
- (2018) Lookout Arts Quarry grant - Pillar of Tetris
- (2016) Vancouver Foundation grant - Heart of Mount Pleasant
- (2015) Vancouver Foundation grant - Fairy doors
- (2015) Black rock city (Burning man) Honoraria - Pocket Universe
- (2015) Greater Vancouver Interactive Arts Society (GVIAS) grant - Pocket Universe
Talks
- (2020) Pecha Kucha Burnaby - Creative Progression: 100 days challange to a 1 year project
- (2020) Vancouver Creative Technology Meetup - Creative Consistency: An Illuminating Process
Workshops
2020
- 2020/September - Digital Stained Glass workshop for Tools for Women residency at Maker Labs
2019
- 2019/October - Digital Stained Glass workshop for Tools for Women residency at Maker Labs
- 2019/September - Digital stained glass workshop at Maker Labs
- 2019/May - Arduino/ESP8266 Lighting Workshop at Maker Labs
- 2019/March - Arduino/ESP8266 Lighting Workshop at Maker Labs
2018
- 2018/June - Cutting Board workshop at Maker Labs for Chipkin Automation Systems
- 2018/March - Light paiting workshop
2017
- 2017/November - Intro to laser cutting
- 2017/September - Arduino LED workshop - Building a thunderstom cloud
2016
- 2016/July - Overpowered LED flashlight workshop - 100W battery powered LED flood lights.
2015
A goal this year was to run a workshop once a month.
- 2015/December - Oscilloscope workshop - How to use a oscilloscope for debugging projects
- 2015/November - Sew it again - fabric repaire workshop
- 2015/October - Intro to lighitng with the Arduino
- 2015/September - Arduino Binary clock Workshop #IStandWithAhmed
- 2015/August - ESP8266 + DS18b20 + sparkfun
- 2015/July - Fairy door workshop #2
- 2015/July - Fairy door workshop
- 2015/June - Intro to ESP8266 workshop
- 2015/May - Intro to lighitng with the Arduino
- 2015/April - Advanced laser cutter CNC workshop
- 2015/March - Piccolo cnc workshop
- 2015/Febuary - Esp8266 Internet button
- 2015/January - Intro to lighitng with the Arduino
2014
- 2014/November - Intro to lighitng with the Arduino
- 2014/October - Introduction to Arduino blink and E-Textiles
- 2014/September - Learn to solder workshop
- 2014/August - Getting started with Raspberry PI workshop
- 2014/August - Balloon maping workshop
- 2014/July - Getting started with Arudino workshop
- 2014/June - Large LED Maxtrix workshop. Teaching people how to program a large LED maxtrix
- 2014/January - Intro to lockpicking
2013
- 2013/November - Introduction to Home automation with the Raspberry Pi workshop
- 2013/September - Sock Knitting Night
- 2013/September - Getting started with Raspberry PI workshop
- 2013/Febuary - Getting a Raspberry PI to blink workshop