As part of her process Smith regularly collaborates and works through the bringing together of transdisciplinary teams. She works regularly with leading academics and professionals from across the world from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, classics, linguistics, mathematics, molecular chemistry, musicology, neuro-science, physics, and psychology.
Involving thousands of members of the public in each project Smith creates events, performances, scores, performance objects, installations and public realm works.
Previous exhibitions and commissions include for Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, The Showroom, Bluecoat, Whitworth, Tramway, ICA, Arnolfini, Grizedale Arts, Art on the Underground, Delfina Foundation, Wysing Arts Centre, Matadero Madrid, Kunstmusem Luzern, Fabrikken for Kust of Design, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, MAAS Sydney, and Temple Contemporary Philadelphia, among many others.