Dr. Jason Lewis

Biography

Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media theorist, poet, and software designer who founded the Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media. He conducts research and creation projects that explore computation in creative cultural materials. As a University Research Chair in Computational Media Indigenous Future Imaginary, he is committed to developing intriguing new forms of expression that work on conceptual, critical, and creative technical levels simultaneously. Lewis co-directs the Abundant Intelligences Partnership, the Indigenous Futures Research Centre, and works with the Aboriginal Territories Cyberspace research network and Skins Workshops focused on Aboriginal Storytelling Video Game Design. He has directed the Initiative Indigenous Futures and co-directed Indigenous Protocol AI Workshops. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, and his research interests include emergent media theory and the history of methodologies conducting art-led technology research. As a lead author of the award-winning "Making Kin Machines" and an editor of the groundbreaking Indigenous Protocol Artificial Intelligence Position Paper, he has contributed to several collected editions regarding Indigenous futures and mobile media. Lewis has also worked in various industrial research settings and has received recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society Canada and other prestigious fellowships.

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