Description: Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media poet, artist, and software designer.
Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media theorist, poet, and software designer. He founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media , where he conducts research/creation projects exploring computation as a creative and cultural material. Lewis is deeply committed to developing intriguing new forms of expression by working on conceptual, critical, creative and technical levels simultaneously. He is the University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well Professor of Computa
Lewis co-directs Abundant Intelligences , the Indigenous Futures Research Centre , the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace research network , and the Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Video Game Design . He directed the Initiative for Indigenous Futures and co-directed the Indigenous Protocol and AI Workshops .
Lewis’ creative and production work has been featured at Ars Electronica, Mobilefest, Elektra, Urban Screens, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, FILE and the Hawaiian International Film Festival, among other venues, and has been recognized with the inaugural Robert Coover Award for Best Work of Electronic Literature, two Prix Ars Electronica Honorable Mentions, several imagineNATIVE Best New Media awards and multiple solo exhibitions. His research interests include emergent media theory and history, and methodologies for cond