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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), Weise7, agenceTOPO, StudioXX, micro research, Perte de Signal. Samson is largely known for her exploration of erasure as a means of knowledge production through digital data funerals. Samson's work has been described as work that points to the materiality of data and its consequences.

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Together with Sabrina Basten, she co-founded Roger10-4. Their work was featured in Arte, NRK, 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, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMK), Connecting Spaces, Kunsthal Aarhus, 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.
  • 'When I go' in This is not a piece of me. Interview by Lisa Matzi. (print)
  • 'Hackin' some coils into wearables'.[1]
  • References

    Audrey Samson Wikipedia