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Jason Aston

Lecturer
aston@umd.edu

Many emerging technologies and novel, immersive contributions are continuously expanding the fields of art and design. Jason Aston is an educator, designer, artist, and entrepreneur with a deep focus in the areas of technology, data, storytelling and experiential/emerging media. He has exhibited in various museums, galleries, exhibitions and institutions worldwide, including Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, IAC Center in New York City, and the Museum of Science in Queens, New York. He has served in many creative and technology positions on major works of note, including the Moon by Ai WeiWei and Olafur Eliasson and Aabode, a forthcoming, frictionless home-buying tool that aims to bring more potential but marginalized homeowners into the benefits of property equity. As a founding member of Collab NYC, a non-profit collaborative art/technology organization operating out of Brooklyn, Jason parlays his creative technology expertise into fully-realized, built projects and installations driven by projection, fabrication, and immersive techniques. He is involved in teaching expressive visual and data design within the context of human-computer interaction (HCI) emphasizing exploratory form and storytelling.