Dr Patrick Brian Smith's Outputs (11)

Law’s Capture of Human Rights focused Open-Source Investigations: the Dangers of Legal Deference (2025)
Journal Article

With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirements of legal processes that exclude alternate horizons of justice and accountability. Instead, we propos... Read More about Law’s Capture of Human Rights focused Open-Source Investigations: the Dangers of Legal Deference.

Futurist Forensics: Indigenous Evidence, Cosmo-Epistemologies, and the New Red Order (2024)
Journal Article

This article critically engages with the emerging ‘media forensic’ turn at the intersection of visual culture, new media practice, and humanitarian and political activism. This field purports to subvert dominant forensic and surveillant regimes, weap... Read More about Futurist Forensics: Indigenous Evidence, Cosmo-Epistemologies, and the New Red Order.

Tricksterism and Indigenous Media Epistemologies: An Interview with New Red Order (2024)
Journal Article

This interview with two of the core members of the Indigenous media collective New Red Order (Ojibway filmmaker Adam Khalil and Tlingit visual artist Jackson Polys, referred to as NRO hereafter), explores how their expanded multimedia practice—operat... Read More about Tricksterism and Indigenous Media Epistemologies: An Interview with New Red Order.

Counter Logistics/Counter Forensics: Seeing the Rot (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, P. B. (2024). Counter Logistics/Counter Forensics: Seeing the Rot. #Journal not on list, 45(3), 355-380

Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies (2023)
Journal Article
Smith, P. B. (2023). Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies. #Journal not on list, 3(1), 61-82. https://doi.org/10.1163/26659891-bja10025

This article examines the interconnections between fire and Indigenous politics, geographies and epistemologies. More precisely, the article focuses on how different modes of emergent nonfiction media practice are engaging with the pyrological and in... Read More about Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies.

Teaching Media Forensics (2022)
Journal Article

Counter(media) Visioning and AI (2022)
Journal Article

Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon (2022)
Journal Article
Brian Smith, P., & Watson, R. (2023). Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon. Media, Culture and Society, 45(1), 36-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221088954

This article focuses on new media technologies and practices that are reshaping how human rights media activism is practiced, disseminated and received. Through an examination of two works by the research agency Forensic Architecture, we examine how... Read More about Mediated forensics and militant evidence: rethinking the camera as weapon.

Documenting Extractive and Indigenous Futurities: Thirza Cuthand’s and Thomas Kneubühler’s Radical Work (2020)
Journal Article
Smith, P. B. (2020). Documenting Extractive and Indigenous Futurities: Thirza Cuthand’s and Thomas Kneubühler’s Radical Work. #Journal not on list, 47(4), 50-68. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.47.4.50

The aim of this article is to examine how different modes of moving image practice can expose and critique the impacts of extractive capitalism and settler colonialism on Indigenous communities in northern Canada. The article focuses on the work of t... Read More about Documenting Extractive and Indigenous Futurities: Thirza Cuthand’s and Thomas Kneubühler’s Radical Work.

Visualising Spatial Injustice and Exploitation, Q&A with Alberto Toscano and Miranda Pennell (2018)
Journal Article

The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s ‘Toponimia’ (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, P. B. (2016). The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s ‘Toponimia’. #Journal not on list, 5(2), 49-71. https://doi.org/10.25969/MEDIAREP/3356

This article maps out the presence of a spatio-political tendency within a diverse corpus of experimental nonfiction films. Within such works urban/rural landscapes and spaces – typically presented through protracted, deep focus shots – become the ce... Read More about The politics of spatiality in experimental nonfiction cinema: Jonathan Perel’s ‘Toponimia’.