Ashley Jane's guest appearances

Ashley Jane

Ada's Sisters podcast

Sugar Coated

The Articulation Zone

This Plus That

David Epstein

Charles Eisenstein

Adam Brock

Jane Lewis

Lincoln Carr

Tyler Thrasher

Serena Chopra

Eliza Williams

Kendra Krueger

Abrah Dresdale

Lauren Buckley

Clementine Morrigan

OwlTail

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:  Afro-futurism, bio-art, social justice, and speculative design. The tensions between art and science, especially as a Black woman. How Ashley got into sourdough, sci-fi, and slime mold. What slime mold has to do with Black popular culture. What it teaches us about gender, mutual aid, and immigration. De-centering humans in imagining the future. Using AI as a science fiction tool to predict a future imagined by BIPOC folks. Plus, a ton of other things related to food, fermentation, our ancestors, passing information generationally through time, writing as a prophetic tool, and geeky things that Ashley and I both love.  Listeners can find Ashley online at ashleyjanelewis.com, as well as Instagram and Twitter. Get more This Plus That: Sign up for the newsletter.  Check out this episode's show notes. Follow along on Twitter: @thisplusthatpod Follow along on Instagram: @thisplusthatpod Check out the Website: thisplusthat.com  Music: The in-house musicians at Slip.stream Audio Engineering: Joshua LaBure

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 <a href="https://www.culturehub.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CultureHub</a> NYC as well as part of the Culture Futures Track in the <a href="https://www.newinc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NEW INC</a> year 7 cohort, an art, design, and technology incubator run within the <a href="https://www.newmuseum.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Museum</a>. In this episode, Ashley and Brandi talk about the intersections of Slime Mold + Social Justice, including: <ul> <li>Afro-futurism, bio-art, social justice, and speculative design.</li> <li>The tensions between art and science, especially as a Black woman.</li> <li>How Ashley got into sourdough, sci-fi, and slime mold.</li> <li>What slime mold has to do with Black popular culture.</li> <li>What it teaches us about gender, mutual aid, and immigration.</li> <li>De-centering humans in imagining the future.</li> <li>Using AI as a science fiction tool to predict a future imagined by BIPOC folks.</li> <li>Plus, a ton of other things related to food, fermentation, our ancestors, passing information generationally through time, writing as a prophetic tool, and geeky things that Ashley and I both love.</li> </ul> Listeners can find Ashley online at <a href="https://ashleyjanelewis.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ashleyjanelewis.com</a>, as well as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ashleyjanelewis/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ashleyjanelewis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Get more This Plus That: <a href="https://thisplusthat.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up for the newsletter.</a> <a href="https://thisplusthat.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>Check out <a href="https://thisplusthat.com/episodes/slime-mold-plus-social-justice-ashley-jane-lewis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this episode's show notes.</a> Follow along on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/thisplusthatpod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@thisplusthatpod</a> Follow along on Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/thisplusthatpod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@thisplusthatpod</a> Check out the Website: <a href="https://thisplusthat.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thisplusthat.com</a> Music: The in-house musicians at <a href="https://slip.stream/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slip.stream</a> Audio Engineering: <a href="https://www.joshualabure.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joshua LaBure</a>


                Slime Mold + Social Justice with Ashley Jane Lewis
            

It’s been 20 years since I talked to Ashley and man how I have missed her so!! She is funny and all the Jersey I needed!! We reminisce about our high-school days, why we will not be attending our 20yr reunion, what are lives are like now that we have escaped NJ (we love NJ secretly). How are we dealing with the day to day of coordinating it all? Does our Jersey come out? Who was popular? Who was in a gang? Who has the thickest accent?Listen to why you ladies need the clue period tracker my $2,000 body sculpting experience and why I will NEVER lose touch with sweet Ashley again!

It’s been 20 years since I talked to Ashley and man how I have missed her so!! She is funny and all the Jersey I needed!! We reminisce about our high-school days, why we will not be attending our 20yr reunion, what are lives are like now that we have escaped NJ (we love NJ secretly). How are we dealing with the day to day of coordinating it all? Does our Jersey come out? Who was popular? Who was in a gang? Who has the thickest accent? Listen to why you ladies need the clue period tracker my $2,000 body sculpting experience and why I will NEVER lose touch with sweet Ashley again!

Ep. 09 20 Yrs?! Say Whaaat?? w Ashley Jane