Lewis Kaye

Lewis Kaye is a Toronto-based media sciences researcher, educator, and sound artist. Currently an instructor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, he holds a Ph.D. from the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities in Toronto. He maintains a wide range of research interests, studying and teaching on the relationship between technology, space and aural experience, digital culture, and the materiality of media art. Lewis is also a practicing sound artist whose work explores the aesthetics of space and everyday sound. Major works include Through The Vanishing Point, a sound installation based on the work of Marshall McLuhan commissioned for the 2010 CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto and exhibited at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin and the Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris in 2011, and YOU ARE HERE, the official audio guide podcast for Toronto's first Nuit Blanche in 2006.