Joanna was born in Poland has lived in Algeria, Gabon, Canada, Norway, Australia and the USA. She obtained undergraduate degrees in Pure Mathematics and in Fine Arts, and a Masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on what she calls "Computational Expressionism". She has worked as a researcher with the Institute for Interactive Media at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and with the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. She was for two years the Director of Design for a high-tech startup and recently co-founded International Fashion Machines, where she serves as Chief Creative Officer. She is currently on the faculty in the Design Art and Digital Image and Sound Department at Concordia University. Her art and design work has been shown in the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery in Los Angeles, the Art Directors Club in NYC, the Australian Museum in Sydney, the NTT ICC in Tokyo, the Ars Electronica Center in Linz (Computational Expressionism and the MusicBottles), as well as in Montreal, Boston, Mexico City and Cannes. She has spoken about the intersections of art, design, technology and computation at SIGGRAPH, Banff New Media Institute in Canada, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy, MILIA in France, Concordia University in Montreal and the University of Washington in Seattle among others.
