ideacritik | audrey samson ... blog ... mail @ ideacritik.com
05.2010 :
aether9 residency @ agence TOPO (Montreal, Canada)
15-23.05.2010 :
White Smoke publication (design: Hexaplex, publisher: Onomatopee) and exhibition at Kunst Vlaai (Amsterdam, NL)
21.04.2010 :
ghost trio (aether9 performance) @ Arti (Amsterdam, NL)
15-17.04.2010 :
presentation & workshop @ liwoli2010 (Linz, A)
03.2010 :
presenting fils d'instructions (installation and online interface) @ compagnie-f (Montreal, Canada)
01-03.2010 :
residency @ studioXX (Montreal, Canada)
28.11.2009 :
presenting paper: Haunted profiles;
Social networking sites and the crisis of death
@ re:live09 conference (Melbourne, AUS)
> re:live 2009 conference referred proceedings
25.11.2009 :
presentation archives seminar at Victoria University (Melbourne, AUS)
21.11.2009 :
TRINKNICS workshop at miss despoinas hacklab (Hobart, AUS)
25-31.10.2009 :
residency at _____-micro research with aether9 group (Berlin, D)
15-22.08.2009 :
connected domes workweek (noisy plants) along with stefanie wuschitz @ OKNO (Brussels, B)
07.2009 :
VACATION (totally offline!!! :)
07-15.06.2009 :
workshops @ /ETC Umeå (Umeå, S)
03-05.2009 :
workshop: Portable Pixels and Worn Out Sounds along with kristina andersen @ the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam, NL)
14.03-05.04.2009 :
exhibiting a version of spectres? in Rietveld's DOGtime teachers exposure (Censored pornography) @ De Service Garage (Amsterdam, NL)
03-07.03.2009 :
genderchangers @ winter camp! (Amsterdam, NL)
16.01.2009 :
presenting thesis paper: Praise the Media! Mediated Mourning Rituals and the Acceptance of Death @ Specters, Hauntings and Archives Conference : University of Amsterdam (NL)
23-5.10.2008 :
train journeys screening @ Simultan04 Festival (Timisoara, RO)
28.09.2008 :
aether9 performance @ hamra street -outdoor screen of el medina theater (Beirut, Lebanon)
08.2008 :
month stay at the rustines | lab of perte de signal (montreal, CAN)
26.07.2008 : aether9 presentation @ ISEA (Singapore)
05.06.2008 :
threads/ @ blaak10 gallery
...along with pieces by Walter Langelaar (Netherlands), Tsila Hassine (Israel), Shahee Ilyas (Maldives), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Australia) in a show called GPS at the blaak10 gallery (Rotterdam, NL)
04.05.2008 :
'spectres?' installation in collaboration with Peter Venus + Reni HofmŸller, part of Soundscape #1 at ESC im labor in graz (A) also presented during the Galerientage (Graz, A)
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bit about me...
occupation(s)
montréal/rotterdam based media designer, artist and researcher.
i teach at the gerrit rietveld academie (communication 2009 / theory 2008, 2009 / hacking & free software 2010). i have also taught at the willem de kooning academie (media design minor / software). i routinely give workshops (i.e. trinknics, html/css, soldering, wearables).
research focus
> use of online medium for mourning purposes
> concept of finality in reproducible media
> women's relationship to technology
> the affordances of the internet medium in telematic performance
education
> media design ma from the piet zwart institute in rotterdam, NL.
> bachelor in fine arts at concordia
university, majoring in design art.
ideacritik
i conjured up the name ideacritik mainly because of my penchant for conceptual thinking and sharp sense of critique.
herstory
i grew up and studied in montreal, at first to become a commercial pilot and then in various faculties at concordia university.
i then moved to australia, living and working in melbourne, doing a whole
range of things, from tomato picking to graphic and web design (for
common ground publishing). i came to the netherlands to complete my masters degree in media design @ the piet zwart institute.
i am now based in rotterdam (NL) / montreal (Canada) working as a freelancer. the hats include media artist, teacher, web/graphic designer and workshop facilitator. i am also a member of genderchangers (a collective of women which promote the exchange of technical skills using FLOSS), and aether9 (a collaborative art project exploring the field of realtime video transmission).