Audrey Samson Explained

Audrey Samson is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and 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.^[3] Their work was featured in Arte,^[4] NRK,^[5] and Motherboard. She has been an active member of the networked performance group aether9,^[6] and the feminist tech network Genderchangers. Samson is also known by the pseudonym ideacritik, and is part of the duo FRAUD, where she collaborates with the artist Fran Gallardo.^[7]

Samson's Dust2Seed project was proposed to memorialise a deceased person by encoding their personal data as DNA that would be synthesised and grafted into the DNA of a seedling, so a tree would grow embodying the deceased person's data.^[8]

Interviews

• 'Digital Data Funerals' in Behind The Smart World.^[9]
• 'When I go' in This is not a piece of me. Interview by Lisa Matzi. (print)
• 'Hackin' some coils into wearables'.^[10]

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
• Motherboard (online Vice magazine)
• Artist website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Putting Data to Rest | Fringe Arts – The Link. 2015-03-03. Thelinknewspaper.ca. 2016-04-03.
2. Web site: Die Referentin;Die schmutzigen Seiten unserer High Tech Welt. diereferentin.servus.at. June 2016. 2017-06-08.
3. Web site: Roger10-4 . en . 21 August 2017.
4. Web site: Leaking Transmediale: Medienkunst in Zeiten totaler Transparenz | ARTE Creative . de . Creative.arte.tv . 2016-04-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151124015953/http://creative.arte.tv/de/episode/leaking-transmediale-medienkunst-zeiten-totaler-transparenz . 2015-11-24 . dead .
5. Web site: NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling . https://archive.today/20160403021735/http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/287047/ . dead . 2016-04-03 . Nrk.no . 2016-04-03.
6. Book: aether9. aether9 - Remote Realtime Storytelling. Greyscale Press. 2011. 978-2-9700706-4-1. Ghent.
7. Web site: Somerset House Studios . Somerset House Studios residents . 6 March 2017 . en . 21 August 2017.
8. Book: Sabra, Jakob Borrits . The Routledge handbook of death and the afterlife . Troyer . John . 2018 . . Candi K. Cann . 978-1-134-81734-4 . Abingdon, Oxon . 115 . The Right to Be Dead: Designing Future Cemeteries . 1042329783.
9. Web site: Kronman . Linda . Zingerl . Andreas . . 2015 . Book: Behind the Smart World – saving, deleting, resurfacing data – KairUs.org – Linda Kronman & Andreas Zingerle . Kairus.org.
10. Web site: Hackin some coils into wearables . Hustic . Deborah . 9 August 2011 . Body Pixel . 21 August 2017 .