Kenneth Newby (born 1956) is a Canadian media artist, composer-performer, educator, interaction designer, and audio producer based in British Columbia.

[2] He is a research associate at the Center for Culture and Technology at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the Flicker Art Collaboratory at Frog Hollow, Mayne Island.

[4][5] In 2004 Newby collaborated with the group Gamelan Madu Sari on their album of Javanese music, New Nectar,[6] and later contributed to their live performance installation, "Semar's Journey", in Vancouver.

[7] Newby's recent work is focussed on long-term projects in generative art including the development of the Flicker Computer Assisted Composition system – a computer-aided system for the composition and performance of contemporary classical music; and Becoming World – a project in generative visual art in collaboration with Aleksandra Dulic.

Newby also worked as an interactivity consultant for Pixar Animation Studios, and as a sound artist and audio software developer at Electronic Arts.