Joel Gethin Lewis is a London-based con­sult­ant, lecturer and artist with a passion for work that allows for real-time interaction between people, places, stories and objects.

For over 20 years, Joel's award winning vision and work has enabled cultural organisations, brands and charities to surprise, engage and connect with their audiences in ever more innovative ways.

He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College, before com­pleting an MA in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in 2003.

After graduation he went to Fabrica in Italy, before returning to London working as interaction designer at United Visual Artists. There he toured with the likes of U2 and Massive Attack and helped to create large scale public installations including "Volume" at London's V&A museum.

In 2008 Joel co-founded the interactive collective YesYesNo together with Zach Lieberman and Theo Watson as well as co-founding the open source craft, design and technology studio Hellicar & Lewis, where he pioneered archi­tec­tural scale LED inter­action, real time projection mapping and social network activated sculpture.

Since 2017 he has worked as a consultant for orga­ni­za­tions such as Universal Everything, Superflux, food.xyz, Preloaded and Google Cultural Institute on interactive projects that blend the analogue and digital to make something new.

Joel is the course leader of the new Diploma in Apple Development at the Creative Com­puting Institute in London, where in addition to teaching he is currently re­search­ing solar-powered computing, the history of weaving and global scale augmented reality sculpture.