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All the Stars We Cannot See
Megan Smith & Gao Yujie / December 12, 2025 - January 7, 2026
Urban Screens at Kelowna Community TheatreComing Soon
Exhibitions & Awards
2025
All the Stars We Cannot See, [immersive installation] Group exhibition ‘SPACE: Internal Illuminations’ Fotografiska Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art & Culture, Shanghai, China (Nov 12, 2025 – March 8, 2026).
All the Stars We Cannot See, [immersive installation] part of ‘Lumiere Festival’, Vancouver (Nov 13-16, 2025).
All the Stars We Cannot See, [immersive installation] Festival International de la Imagen, Columbia (May 2025).
2024
All the Stars We Cannot See, [immersive installation] York University, Markham Campus Opening Event (Fall 2024)
All the Stars We Cannot See, [immersive installation] ‘Unity in Flux: The Ones & The Zeros’, Ejaz Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan, July – August.
All the Stars We Cannot See, [print] Computer Arts Society Members Exhibition, British Computer Society, London, UK, July – September
All the Stars We Cannot See, [print] FCCS Banner Project, Artwalk, Kelowna, April
All the Stars We Cannot See, [video projection] Canada House Telefilm Canada, SXSW Conference, March
2023
All the Stars We Cannot See, [Immersive installation] Kelowna Art Gallery, October 28 – March 10, 2024. https://kelownaartgallery.com/all-the-stars-we-cannot-see/
2022 All the Stars We Cannot See, [Immersive installation] Visualization and Emerging Media Studio, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, April 23, 2022. https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/2022/03/29/research-project-spotlight-all-the-stars-we-cannot-see/
2022
Prix Ars Electronica – Honorary Mention – Digital Communities
Speaker, Megan Smith, Yujie Gao, ‘All the Stars We Cannot See: a deep look into real-time satellite traffic’, Technarte conference, Bilbao, February 2022.
Speaker, ‘What is the Metaverse?’, CBC Kids.
2021 Speaker, ‘7th Annual Immersive Learning Research Conference: Online & in VR’, May.
Speaker with Gao Yujie, ‘All the Stars We Cannot See: a deep look into real-time satellite traffic’, Electronic and Visual Arts, British Computer Society, July.
About the Artists
Dr. Gao Yujie
Dr. Megan Smith
Dr. Gao Yujie is a media artist, performer, and researcher whose work explores time as an artistic material through generative systems, site-specific performances, and interactive installations. Her research investigates how computational and performative practices shape our taken-for-granted perceptions of time across physical, digital, and intercultural contexts.
She holds a PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities from the University of British Columbia and teaches Creative and Media Studies, where she fosters research-creation through experimental, process-based art making. Her work has been presented internationally, recognized with an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica (2022) and a Lumen Prize longlisting (2017).
Dr. Megan Smith is a new media artists and designer. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Art & Graphic Design from Leeds Beckett University, and she became a Killam Fellow in 2022. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her art practice probes new systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with geo-location, live-feed installation, and performance as methods for storytelling.