Sam Lavigne Explained

Sam Lavigne (born 1981) is an artist and educator based in New York. His work deals with technology, data, surveillance, natural language processing, and automation.

Education

Born in San Francisco, Lavigne studied Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He has a Master in Professional Studies at Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.

Lavigne has since taught at ITP/NYU,[1] The New School, and the School for Poetic Computation, and was formerly Magic Grant fellow at the Brown Institute at Columbia University,[2] and Special Projects editor at the New Inquiry Magazine.[3]

He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Design at University of Texas in Austin.

Projects

Lavigne describes his work as "online interventions that surface the frequently opaque political and economic conditions that shape computational technologies".

He has exhibited work at the Whitney Museum,[4] the Shed,[5] Lincoln Center,[6] SFMOMA, Pioneer Works, DIS, Ars Electronica, the New Museum.[7]

Selected works include Smell Dating with artist Tega Brain,[8] White Collar Crime Risk Zones,[9] [10] [11] The Good Life[12] and The Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon.[13] [14]

He has been named an Honoree at the Webby Awards twice.[15]

ICE controversy

In 2018, Lavigne published a database of the names of nearly 1600 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees sourced from LinkedIn in response to the Trump administration's family separation policy.[16] The project was removed by GitHub who claimed it violated community guidelines and information about the project removed from Twitter and Medium.[17] [18] This prompted WikiLeaks to post a mirror.[19] [20] Experts stated the project was not illegal as all information was already publicly available.[21]

References

  1. Web site: SAM LAVIGNE. NYU TISCH. 5 May 2020.
  2. Web site: 2017-18 Magic Grants Announced – Brown Institute. 4 May 2017 . en-US. 2020-05-05.
  3. Web site: Announcing Derica Shields, Sam Lavigne, and Anwar Batte. Siddiqi. Ayesha. 2014-12-19. The New Inquiry. en-US. 2020-05-05.
  4. Web site: How Two Artists Combined Thousands of NYC Listings Into an Ad for One Massive, $43.9 Billion Apartment. Hampton. Rachelle. 2020-04-02. Slate Magazine. en. 2020-05-05.
  5. Web site: The Shed Is Funding 52 Emerging New York Artists to Make New Work—Here They Are. 2018-10-09. artnet News. en-US. 2020-05-05.
  6. Web site: LYFE Glass Ghost – Performance Space New York. en-US. 2020-05-05.
  7. Web site: Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: New York Apartment. whitney.org. en. 2020-05-05.
  8. Web site: New Dating Website Uses Body Odor to Match You With a Mate. ABC News. en. 2020-05-05.
  9. Web site: This App Warns You If You're Entering A Sketchy Financial District. BuzzFeed News. 25 April 2017 . en. 2020-05-05.
  10. Web site: White-Collar Crime The Record. The Marshall Project. 2020-05-05.
  11. Web site: This app alerts you to rampant white-collar crime in your area. 2017-04-25. The Daily Dot. en-US. 2020-05-05.
  12. Web site: Experience Enron's Everyday Evil with a 500,000+ Email Experiment. Wannmann. Azura. 2017-01-04. Vice. en. 2020-05-05.
  13. Web site: Stupid Hackathon celebrates terrible tech with eyeball pong, a robot porn addict, and more. Vincent. James. 2017-03-03. The Verge. en. 2020-05-05.
  14. News: Mahdawi. Arwa. 2016-02-08. Mansplain it to Me: inside the Stupid Hackathon for extremely stupid ideas. en-GB. The Guardian. 2020-05-05. 0261-3077.
  15. Web site: Ghosts of a Chance ARG at the Smithsonian American Art Museum -- The Webby Awards. en-US. 2020-05-05.
  16. Web site: What We Know: Family Separation And 'Zero Tolerance' At The Border. NPR.org. en. 2020-05-05.
  17. Web site: Anti-Trump professor thwarted in bid to share ICE employee data. Mikelionis. Lukas. 2018-06-20. Fox News. en-US. 2020-05-05.
  18. Web site: GitHub, Medium, and Twitter take down database of ICE employee LinkedIn accounts. Lecher. Colin. 2018-06-19. The Verge. en. 2020-05-05.
  19. Web site: WikiLeaks posts ICE employees' personal data, report says. Betz. Bradford. 2018-06-23. Fox News. en-US. 2020-05-06.
  20. News: Flynn. Meagan. 22 June 2018. WikiLeaks publishes identities and information about ICE employees amid intensifying anger. The Washington Post. 7 May 2020.
  21. Web site: Security, privacy experts weigh in on the ICE doxxing. TechCrunch. en-US. 2020-05-05.

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