Audrey Samson
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Audrey Samson is a Canadian a multidisciplinary artist-researcher whose work points to the materiality of data and its consequences.[1] She is largely known for her exploration of erasure as a means of knowledge production through digital data funerals.[2]
Samson studied Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute, where she obtained a MFA in 2007.
Together with Sabrina Basten, she co-founded Roger10-4. Their work was featured in Arte,[3] NRK,[4] and Motherboard. She has been an active member of the networked performance group aether9,[5] and the feminist tech network Genderchangers. Her work has been shown across the Asia-Pacific, Europe and Canada, at such venues as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Transmediale, Mediamatic,[6] Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMK), Connecting Spaces, Kunsthal Aarhus,[7] and the biennale Hybrid City. Samson is also known by the pseudonym ideacritik.
Writing
- 'Network Affordances: Unpredictable parameters of a Hong Kong SPEED SHOW' in The Fibreculture Journal, 24 (2015)
- 'Erasure, an attempt to surpass datafication' in APRJA 4.1 (2015)
- 'Tassophonics: Nanotechnology and the magical unknown' in Design, User Experience, and Usability. User Experience in Novel Technological Environments 8014 (2013): pp. 548–557
- Aether9, Remote Realtime Storytelling, ed. Audrey Samson and Manuel Schmalstieg (Greyscale Press, 2012)
- 'Pixel Experience Poetics' in White Smoke, ed. Hexaplex (Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2010)
- 'Haunted profiles; Social networking sites and the crisis of death' in Re:live Media Art Histories 2009 conference proceedings, ed. Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas (Melbourne: The University of Melbourne & Victorian College of the Arts and Music, 2009): pp. 140–147
Interviews
- 'Digital Data Funerals' in Behind The Smart World.[8]
- 'When I go' in This is not a piece of me. Interview by Lisa Matzi. (print)
- 'Hackin' some coils into wearables'.[9]
References
- ↑ "Putting Data to Rest | Fringe Arts – The Link". Thelinknewspaper.ca. 2015-03-03. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
- ↑ "Die Referentin;Die schmutzigen Seiten unserer High Tech Welt". diereferentin.servus.at. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ↑ "Leaking Transmediale: Medienkunst in Zeiten totaler Transparenz | ARTE Creative". Creative.arte.tv (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-03.
- ↑ "NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling". Nrk.no. Archived from the original on 2016-04-03. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
- ↑ aether9 (2011). aether9 - Remote Realtime Storytelling. Ghent: Greyscale Press. ISBN 978-2-9700706-4-1.
- ↑ "Badger". Mediamatic.net. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
- ↑ "Audrey Samson | Kunsthal Aarhus". Kunsthalaarhus.dk. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
- ↑ Menu. "Book: Behind the Smart World – saving, deleting, resurfacing data – KairUs.org – Linda Kronman & Andreas Zingerle". Kairus.org.
- ↑ Hustic, Deborah (9 August 2011). "Hackin some coils into wearables". Body Pixel. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
External links
- National Canadian Media (Radio Canada) in French ("Josée Brouillard : faire le deuil de notre mémoire virtuelle. Que faire avec nos souvenirs en format numérique ? L’artiste Audrey Samson embaume les clés USB et disques durs.")
- National Norwegian TV (NRK)
- Arte Creative (Franco-German media)
- Danish newspaper
- Montreal newspaper
- Montreal newspaper
- Motherboard (online Vice magazine)
- Artist website