Speakers
Jason Lewis
Jason Lewis (Canada/USA) is a digital media artist and
technologist interested in creating innovative forms of
expression and the technology to support them. Jason's main body
of work revolves around experiments with dynamic, interactive
and performative text. Along with Alex Weyers, he created the
C++-based ActiveText library which has provided a whole new way
for artists to work with text and typography. He has used
ActiveText to create applications such as It's Alive!, for
experimenting with dynamic and interactive texts, as well
TextOrgan, an application which allows real-time manipulation of
text. In 2003 ActiveText evolved into NextText, the next
generation of interactive and dynamic text software which
emphasizes production-grade tools and live performance. Jason is
currently Assistant Professor of Digital Image/Sound and the
Fine Arts in the Department of Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, at
Concordia University in Montreal, where he shows the next
generation of digital designers and artists how to integrate
computation into their critical creative practice. As for his
own education, he studied philosophy and computer science at
Stanford University and then art and design at the Royal College
of Art, London, where he received an M.Phil.
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