Danny Smith Salfati is an artist, art historian, and curator. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.



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Patient Denies

Patient Denies translates the coded language of a lengthy diagnostic process into the International Code of Signals.

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2023

Exhibited in:
Holding Over
Ortega y Gasset Projects
May 30, 2023

Organized by Renana Neuman



Walking Tour

A wall sculpture playing field recordings made across the city of Rome through a web of the disposable, mono headphones used to whisper into the ears of tourists.

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2022



Personal Odyssey

An installation of Cornell University’s  19th-century plaster cast of a bust of Homer on a customized plinth. At the push of a button on the plinth, Homer, as bard and guide, generates directions from classically named locations across New York state (i.e. Troy, Attica, Rome) back to Ithaca New York. Viewers receive these directions as a printed receipt.

With Rebecca Levitan.

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2022

Exhibited in:
The Sculpture Shoppe
Cornell University
5-30 May, 2022

Curated by David Nasca and Verity Platt




Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood, 1851-1900

Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood 1851-1900, the Cantor Arts Center's first born-digital exhibition, documents the political role of early photography across the Mediterranean. Works included photographs by Pascal Sébah, the Gaetano Pedo Studio, Giorgio Sommer, Francis Frith, and William Henry Fox Talbot.

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Cantor Arts Center
29 March 2021 - 31 March 2022



 
Miracole de Roma

Miracole de Roma is an ongoing project about the sonic and historical landscape of Rome. The work consists of binaural field recordings made at every site listed in the Miracole de Roma, a thirteenth-century pilgrims' guide to the city and the first guidebook to Rome written in vulgate Italian.

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2021
Installed in the Aqua Traina
American Academy in Rome






Carni Misti

Cyanotype images of Italian deli meats. Forms that are both natural and unnatural, recognizable and totally abstract.

With Sara Harrison.

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2021



Chapel

A 5-channel video and audio installation exploring time and space and light at the Calera Chapel, Toyahvale, Texas.

With Lora Webb.


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Coulter Gallery
Stanford University
11 July - 20 August 2017