Audrey Samson

Audrey Samson is a Canadian a multidisciplinary artist-researcher. She also goes by the pseudonym of ideacritik. Samson studied Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute, where she obtained a MFA in 2007. She then followed residencies at Eastern Bloc (art centre),^[1] Weise7, agenceTOPO, StudioXX,^[2] micro research, Perte de Signal. Samson is largely known for her exploration of erasure as a means of knowledge production through digital data funerals.^[3]^[4] Samson's work has been described as work that points to the materiality of data and its consequences.^[5]

Together with Sabrina Basten, she co-founded Roger10-4. Their work was featured in Arte,^[6] NRK,^[7] and Motherboard. She was an active member of aether9, and genderchangers. Her work has been shown across the Asia-pacific, Europe and Canada, at such venues as: the Victoria and Albert Museum, Transmediale, Mediamatic,^[8] Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMK), Connecting Spaces, Kunsthal Aarhus,^[9] and the biennale Hybrid City.

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.^[10]
'When I go' in This is not a piece of me. Interview by Lisa Matzi. (print)
'Hackin' some coils into wearables'.

References

↑ "Eastern Bloc | New Media Exhibition & Production Centre". Easternbloc.ca. 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
↑ "audrey samson : threads/ | StudioXX". Secure.studioxx.org. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
↑ "Émissions, actualités en direct | ICI". Radio-canada.ca. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
↑ "Le quotidien gratuit offrant l'essentiel de l'info! - 0035". Virtuel.24hmontreal.canoe.ca. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
↑ "Putting Data to Rest | Fringe Arts – The Link". Thelinknewspaper.ca. 2015-03-03. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
↑ "Leaking Transmediale: Medienkunst in Zeiten totaler Transparenz | ARTE Creative". Creative.arte.tv (in German). Retrieved 2016-04-03.
↑ "NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling". Nrk.no. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
↑ "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. Retrieved 2016-04-03.

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