obx

Obx Labs is interested in living letterforms, massively multi-contributor texts and time-travelling provocateurs. We create artwork that utilizes and motivates the software that we develop and the technologies we repurpose. Our main goal is to provide both the inspiration and the means for others to push the boundaries of computationally-based expression.
Writing with Complex Type

Lewis, Jason E. and Bruno Nadeau. “Writing with Complex Type”. Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture 2009 Conference, Dec. 12 – 15. UC. Ed. Simon Penny. Irvine, CA : UC Irvine. (December 2009)

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Future First Nations: Rezzing the 22nd Century

# Lewis, Jason, Beth A. Dillon, Skawennati Fragnito, and Bea Parsons. “Future First Nations: Rezzing the 22nd Century”. Canadian Games Studies Association Conference, Ottowa, ON. (May 2009).

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Writing-Designing-Programming: The NextText Project

Lewis, Jason. “Writing-Designing-Programming”. Media-Space Journal: Special Issue on Futures of New Media Art, vol. 1 no. 1. Ed. Ingrid Richardson. Perth, Australia: Media-Space Perth, 2008.

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Writing-Designing-Programming: The NextText Project

Lewis, Jason. “Writing-Designing-Programming: The Next Text Project”. Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Perth, Australia. (September 2007)

Performative Surface: Double Sided Interaction

Bruyère, Hugues and Thierry Giles. “Performative Surface: Double Sided Interaction.” MULTIMEDIA ‘07: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia, 2007. ACM, 2007.

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Cityspeak, Citywide

Lewis, Jason, Maroussia Lévesque and Lucie Bélanger. “Cityspeak, Citywide”. Mobilefest Conference on Mobile Technology, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (November 2006).

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p2P: Cityspeak’s Reconfiguration of Public Media Space

Lévesque, Maroussia, Jason Lewis and Lucie Bélanger. “p2P: Cityspeak’s Reconfiguration of Public Media Space”. Wi: Journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network. No. 1, vol. 1, Montreal, QC. (Fall 2006)

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Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace

Lewis, Jason and Skawennati Tricia Fragnito. “Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace”, Cultural Survival Quarterly, pp. 29 – 31, vol. 29.2, Cambridge, Mass. (July 2005)

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The Prime Designer

Textologies Interdisciplinary Workshop on Multmedia Technologies, Ethics and Culture, McMasters University, Hamilton ON (October 2004)

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A More Developed Life: Comments on the Materiality of Digital Media

Lewis, Jason. “A More Developed Life: Comments on the Materiality of Digital Media”, 2nd Annual Conference on Typography and Visual Communication, Thessaloniki, Greece. (June 2004)

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ActiveText: A Method for Creating Dynamic and Interctive Texts

Lewis, Jason and Alex Weyers. “ActiveText: A Method for Creating Dynamic and Interctive Texts”, User Interface Software and Technology Conference (UIST), Asheville, North Carolina. (November 1999)

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Invisibilities at the Interface

Lewis, Jason and Adrian Chan. “Invisibilities at the Interface”. Technologies of Vision Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (November 1992) (original title: “The Communicative Interface”)

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Trespassing | Transgression

Lévesque, Maroussia, and Jason Lewis. “Trespassing | Transgression”. No More Potlucks. No. 1, vol. 2, Montreal, QC. (Winter 2009)

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Skins: Virtual Modding as Self-Determination

Dillon, Beth A., and Jason Lewis, “Skins: Virtual Modding as Self-Determination”, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 1st Annual Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. (May 2009)

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What Do We Lose When We Make People Disappear? The Passage Oublié Project

Lévesque, Maroussia, and Jason Lewis. “What Do We Lose When We Make People Disappear? The Passage Oublié Project”. Wi: Journal of Mobile Media. No. 1, vol. 1, Montreal, QC. (Spring 2008)

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(Im)mobile Nation

Lewis, Jason and Maroussia Lévesque. “(Im)mobile Nation”. Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms. Eds. Martha Ladly and Philip Beesley. Toronto: Riverside Architectural Press, 2008. 141 – 147.

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The Threat of Text

Maroussia Lévesque, and Lewis, Jason. “The Threat of Text”. Public Lettering Conference, Montreal, Canada. (May 2007).

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Text Threat

Maroussia Lévesque, and Lewis, Jason. “The Threat of Text”. Public Lettering Conference, Montreal, Canada. (May 2007).

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Taking Sides: Dynamic Text and Hip-Hop Performance.

Lewis, Jason and Yannick Assogba. “Taking Sides: Dynamic Text and Hip-Hop Performance.” Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, October 23-27, 2006. ACM Press, 2006.

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Inter-inactivity

Lewis, Jason and Bruno Nadeau. “Inter-inactivity”. Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference 2005, December 1 – 6, 2005. Copenhagen: IT University of Copenhagen, 2005.

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SenseText: Gesture Based Control of Text Visualization

Lewis, Jason and Frank Tsonis. “SenseText: Gesture Based Control of Text Visualization”. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, Berder Island, France, May 18-20, 2005. Eds. Sylvie Gibet, et al. Frankfurt: Spring Verlag, 2005.

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Alien Letter Forms: An Ecosystem for Evolutionary Letterforms

Lewis, Jason and David Bouchard. “Alien Letter Forms: An Ecosystem for Evolutionary Letterforms”. Proceedings of COSIGN Conference on Computational Semiotics, Split, September 4 – 16, 2004. Ed. Andy Clarke. Split, Croatia: University of Split, 2004. 82 – 86.

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Terra Nullius, Terra Incognito : Aboriginal Reservations About Cyberspace

Lewis, Jason. “Terra Nullius, Terra Incognito : Aboriginal Reservations About Cyberspace”, BlackFlash, vol. 22. no. 1, Saskatoon, SK. (Spring 2004)

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