Professor Emeritus Barbara Layne is the Director of Studio subTela and Co-Director of the Textiles and Materiality Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Art, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Layne lectures and exhibits internationally, most recently in AS-Helix: The Integration of Art and Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Exhibition at The National Museum of China, Beijing, the Festival de la Image Exhibition, Museo de Arte de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia and Taking Care, Ars Electronica Exhibition in Linz, Austria. Her work is supported by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Hexagram and the Milieux Institute.