Ashley Jane Lewis
Ashley Jane Lewis is a new media artist with a focus on speculative design and tech education. Her artistic practice explores black diaspora of the past, present and future through computational and analog mediums including science fiction, networked devices, machine learning, data weaving, food design, bio art and performance. Her award winning work has exhibited in Canada and America, most notably on the White House website during the Obama presidency. As an educator, Ashley has taught more than 3500 young people how to code, landing her on the 2016 Top 100 Black Women to Watch in Canada. She’s helped lower the barrier to entry into creative computing in her work with Dan Shiffman and ml5.org, a “friendly machine learning for the web” platform. Ashley holds a New Media BFA from Ryerson University in Toronto and a Master’s degree from ITP at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.