John Geoffrey Smithies (born 1954) is an Australian artist and arts manager.
[2] At Cinemedia, Smithies was deputy director, with prime responsibility for developing the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).
It houses exhibition spaces, state-of-the art cinemas, and media production spaces, and the combined access collection of the National Film and Sound Archive and the State film and media collection.
[4] After a period of turmoil, with the organisation over budget,[5][6] Smithies resigned from the Victorian Public Service in 2004.
[citation needed] About the same time, he recommenced working as an artist (painting and sculpture) with an ongoing interest in digital media and interactive broadcasting.