Jen Lewin

Jen Lewin is an American interactive artist and engineer.

She is based in New York City and specializes in large scale installations in public spaces, usually combining elements such as light, sound and complex engineering.

Lewin married Kimbal Musk in 2001, brother of Elon Musk.

They had two children together.

Her interactive light installation The Pool debuted in 2008 and has been exhibited across the globe, in cities such as Singapore, Sydney, Denver, Montréal and Prague, and in events such as South By Southwest and Burning Man.

Lewin has written publications about CAD-related topics.

Her work has appeared on National Geographic.

Lewin grew up in Maui and obtained her BA in Architecture and Computer Aided Design from the University of Colorado Boulder, later obtaining her M.P.S. degree in Interactive Design from Tisch School of the Arts.

They divorced in 2010.

2012

Lewin, along with her Pool installation, was featured by the BBC News in May 2013.

Jen Lewin was co-founder of The Kitchen restaurants in Boulder, along with Hugo Matheson and then husband, Kimbal Musk.

She designed its three original locations.

Lewin is also the original designer behind the Learning Gardens created for Kimbal Musk and his foundation The Kitchen Community, now called Big Green.

Lewin also co-founded The Studio Boulder with business partner William Goodrich.

2013

2014

Lewin married William (Bill) Magnuson in 2015, and currently lives with Bill and their two children in New York City.

Her most known work, The Pool, featured on Wired, consists of over 200 LED-lit platforms that change color according to pressure and speed changes elicited by viewers' interactions with the system.

Termed an "interactive light sculpture", where human interaction is necessary for its display, this installation has toured several countries.

Specializing in works that involve technology and human interaction, she often includes musical elements into her creations.

For instance, other projects or hers include laser harps, where people elicit music via interrupting the laser arrangements.

According to the Boulder Weekly, Google commissioned Lewin to "create an Android app for tracking feedback between her innovations and the groups of people interacting with them".

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