Nathan Smith
Glasgow, Scotland
grpahicdeisgn.com @nathandavidsmith

Nathan is an artist and critical technologist based in Glasgow, Scotland. His work challenges emerging technologies, examining their impacts and exploring critiques of the techno-capitalist structures which support them. Through approachable and experimental artworks, Nathan's practice questions the orthodoxy of the tech world and encourages a disenfranchised audience to wrestle for agency: not by simplifying technology, nor by rejecting it, but by peeling back the layers to reveal the machinery within.

After plumbing the depths of creative industries for several years, Nathan completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2024 and returned to Scotland, establishing experimental art studio and gallery Grpahic Deisgn in Glasgow. This renewed a focus on human-machine and human-human interaction mediated by technologies which intervene in communication, education and social and cultural relationships.

Artist CV (PDF)

Group exhibitions

^{July 2026}
In Translucence
xCoAx, Scopri Palazzo Madama, Torino

^{June 2026}
In Translucence
Hidden Door Festival, The Paper Factory, Edinburgh

^{October 2025}
In Translucence
Peckham Digital, Copeland Gallery, London

^{June 2025}
In Translucence
AI Can’t Write Symphonies (and Neither Can You), The Boardwalk, Glasgow

^{May 2025}
Grpahic Deisgn (virtual experience)
Hybrid Realities Lab #2, Six Minutes Past Nine, (online)

^{Dec 2024}
Shapeshifter (with Lidi Fu)
Reverse Alchemy, RCA Hangar Space, London

^{Oct 2024}
Swimming Through Synthesis
Eight Sec Catching, LowLowLand Gallery, Guangzhou

^{Sept 2024}
It is not what is in it but it is what it is in
A World of Many Worlds_, _V&A South Kensington, London

^{August 2024}
Shapeshifter (with Lidi Fu)
Reverse Alchemy, On Dream Society, Seoul

^{July 2024}
It is not what is in it but it is what it is in
Do You Read Me?, Royal College of Art, London

^{June 2024}
Swimming Through Synthesis
Specctra 002, Peckham Audio, London

^{May 2024}
Cyclopticon
Reveries in the Round, Brompton Cemetery Chapel, London

Press and Publications

^{July 2026}
In Translucence published in The Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, xCoAx

^{July 2025}
Interview with The Herald, What it's like to have a studio in the heart of The Barras, Print + online

Education

^2023-2024
Royal College of Art
MA Information Experience Design

^2009-2012
University of the Arts London, London College of Communication
BA, 1st class hons. Graphic Media Design for Interaction and Moving Image

Selected commissions

Heriot-Watt University Large Language Machine, Artist in Residence, December 2025 – June 2026

BBC Scotland Election 2026, virtual studio development, live AR graphics, May 2026

Gay Times x Garnier Messages To Our Younger Selves, immersive experience, Outernet, June 2025

The Budos Band Overlander, music video, March 2025

EHFM Community Radio mobile app development, iOS/Android 2024

BBC Scotland Election 2024, live 3D augmented reality graphics, June-July 2024

Redstone Press Feeling Everything, All At Once artwork & creative direction, January 2024

Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet The Wreckers, music video, December 2022

Pseudopolis High for Life, artwork & creative direction, August 2022

Ezra Furman Point Me Toward The Real, Lilac & Black, Book of Our Names, music videos, 2022

BBC Scotland Our Planet Now live 3D augmented reality graphics, October 2021

BBC Scotland Election 2021, live 3D augmented reality graphics, April-May 2021

Clyde Built Radio Technical Director, February 2020 – August 2021

Young Vic Theatre Changing Destiny live projection graphics, July 2021

BBC Scotland The Sunday Show live 3D augmented reality graphics, January 2021

Preoccupations Espionage music video, January 2018

Kevin Morby Come to Me Now music video, June 2017

Slowdive Star Roving music video, January 2017

Performance

^22/02/2024
Sparring Partners at Specctra 001, Peckham Audio, London

^21/10/2023
Sparring Partners at Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Iklectic, London

^2020-present
Town Centre live performances

Additional work

^{2025 (ongoing)}
Grpahic Deisgn Gallery, non-commercial gallery + exhibition programme, Glasgow

^{Sept 2024}
Royal College of Art Visiting lecturer, workshop leader

^{May 2024}
Swimming Through Synthesis Short-run exhibition writing, self-published in London and Guangzhou

^2023-present
emails from Nathan, subscription newsletters, ongoing project