INGRID OLIVIA NORRMÉN-SMITH
PRÉCIS
I am a writer-director and interdisciplinary researcher whose projects hold central examinations of psychic life; existential questions of ambition, love, and memory; meaning-making; human–culture–technology relations; and the unusual, miraculous and extraordinarily banal idiosyncracies of existence.
FELLOWSHIPS // NOTABLE AWARDS
Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow
Thomas J. Watson Fellow
B3 Moving-Image Biennale Talent Lab
OBORO artist-in-residence
Alumnus, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
I am a writer-director and interdisciplinary researcher whose projects hold central examinations of psychic life; existential questions of ambition, love, and memory; meaning-making; human–culture–technology relations; and the unusual, miraculous and extraordinarily banal idiosyncracies of existence.
FELLOWSHIPS // NOTABLE AWARDS
Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow
Thomas J. Watson Fellow
B3 Moving-Image Biennale Talent Lab
OBORO artist-in-residence
Alumnus, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
My path has moved from brain circuits towards stories, navigating multiple spheres and lenses: the neurobiological, the phenomenological, the artistic. I hold a B.S. in Neuroscience and an M.Sc. in Psychiatry. My artistic practice is equal parts critical inquiry and poetic expression. My explorations are by way of intimate portraiture, nonlinear narrative, oral history, states of enchantment, and meditations on recollection and time. My experience and hybrid projects have straddled intersections of the worlds of journalistic reportage, the documentary film industry, the artists’ moving image, and narrative fiction. My emergent auteur works have shown in New York, Los Angeles, London, Oslo, and Montréal.
A thread of my graduate interdisciplinary research was published as an article, “#Mombrain and Sticky DNA” in peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers in Sociology, where it currently has more views than 90% of all Frontiers articles. The research was the first to examine popular translations of epigenetics and neuroplasticity research vis à vis the perinatal period, that research’s intermingling with dominant narratives in public spheres, and consequent impacts on individual psychology, behavior and attitudes.
I presently work closely in a creative, psycho-social clinical capacity with a group of diverse vulnerable and formerly homeless women.
I am a New York City native and am currently operating in Montréal.