Work

Rhododendrites , Sea of Skulls CalAcademy 1 , Color and cropping by Koven J. Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0
A series of icons in a grid depicting actions one might take on a computer, with a magenta and grey color overlay.

Knight Digital Maturity Model

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, 2024

An framework for assessing the digital capacity of arts organizations.
A person holds and operates a tablet computer with their right hand. The image is overlaid with a strong magenta filter.

Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, 2021 - 2025

$8M open call program to provide technology for arts practitioners.
Painting of male and female cafe-goers dressed in late 1800s attire.

Drinking About Museums

Koven J. Smith Consulting, 2011 - 2022

A worldwide network of meetups for museum professionals.
A series of icons in a grid depicting actions one might take on a computer, with a magenta and grey color overlay.

Research Report: Digital Transformation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, 2021

An assessment of grants supporting digital staff in museums.
A person holds and operates a tablet computer with their right hand. The image is overlaid with a strong magenta filter.

Ignite MCN

Museum Computer Network, 2012 - 2019

Annual series of talks by museum professionals.

Ephemera Mobile App

Blanton Museum of Art, 2017

A location-based app that tells a different story every time you visit.

Art Primers

Blanton Museum of Art, 2017 - 2018

A novel, context-first approach to online collections.

Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s Cassette Mixtapes

Blanton Museum of Art, 2016

Crowdsourced playlists for an exhibition, played on vintage cassette walkmans.

Blanton Site Redesign

Blanton Museum of Art, 2016

Complete migration, re-design, and re-architecting of blantonmuseum.org.

The Crusader Bible: A Gothic Masterpiece AR Translations

Blanton Museum of Art, 2015

Augmented Reality translations of text in illustrations from the Crusader Bible.

Witness Voices

Blanton Museum of Art, 2015

Real-time cross-platform aggregation of visitor responses to an exhibition.
Image shows a single empty gallery with dramatically sloping walls. Streams of individual digital characters are projected onto the walls and ceilings

Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image

Denver Art Museum, 2011

A large-scale installation of Time-Based Media artworks.

American Wing Interpretive Technology

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009

Digital interpretive and wayfinding signage for the Met’s redesigned American Wing.

Greek and Roman Study Gallery Kiosks

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006

Electronic labels and wayfinding for hundreds of objects in the Met’s Greek & Roman study gallery.

IMA Collections Management Overhaul

Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2004

Completely overhauling a museum’s collections management infrastructure.