Slime Mold + Social Justice with Ashley Jane Lewis

Episode 18 March 29, 2022 01:47:57
Slime Mold + Social Justice with Ashley Jane Lewis
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Slime Mold + Social Justice with Ashley Jane Lewis

Mar 29 2022 | 01:47:57

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Show Notes

Ashley Jane Lewis (she/her) is a new media artist with a focus on Afrofuturism, bio-art, social justice, and speculative design.

Her artistic practice explores black cultures of the past, present, and future through computational and analog mediums, including coding and machine learning, data weaving, microorganisms, and live performance. Listed in the Top 100 Black Women to Watch in Canada, her award-winning work on empowered futures for marginalized groups has exhibited in both Canada and the U.S., most notably featured on the White House website during the Obama presidency. Her practice is tied to science and actively incorporates living organisms like slime mold and food cultures (kombucha and sourdough starters) to explore ways of decentralizing humans and imagining collective, multi-species survival. Ashley is currently an Artist in Residence at CultureHub NYC as well as part of the Culture Futures Track in the NEW INC year 7 cohort, an art, design, and technology incubator run within the New Museum.

In this episode, Ashley and Brandi talk about the intersections of Slime Mold + Social Justice, including:

Listeners can find Ashley online at ashleyjanelewis.com, as well as Instagram and Twitter.

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