Blair Simmons
Assistant Arts Professor
Blair Simmons is an artist, curator, storyteller, and technician who uses research, teaching and an iterative practice to explore themes of technology, memory, labor, bodies, objects, and pain. Simmons’ research engages in many forms of labor: collecting soft and hard data; reading and researching; teaching and discussing; making and iterating; and careful consideration for objects, people and spaces. The projects often use humor as an entry point to difficult conversations around technology, queerness, anxiety, pain and labor. When exploring these projects you will often encounter concrete casts, digital sculpting, dirt, digital renders, rocks, found objects, hand-coded software, curated exhibitions, performances, and audio recordings.
Simmons’ research often materializes as objects and performances that have been performed and shown at the likes of Pioneer Works, La Mama’s CultureHub, Wordhack at Babycastles, theBlanc and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and have been mentioned in publications like PARtake, The Scotsman, USA Today, ArtReview, Art Frankly, The Guardian, and the NYTimes.