audrey samson ... @ideacritik ... mail @ ideacritik.com ... see also fraud.la

: :: . NEWS . (old) news . NEWS . :: :

slowly upd a t i n g... see @ideacritik

26.06-23.09.2018 : Finis terra on show at the European Investment Bank (Luxembourg, LU)

16.06.2018 : Landscape leakage workshop at the Design Museum (London, UK)

13.06-24.06.2018 : Carbon rifts in Complex Value$ exhibition at the Somerset House Studios (London, UK)

17.05-30.06.2018 : _Whitepaper in Rethinking Affordance exhibition curated by Ashley Scarlett and Martin Zeilinger + symposium (akademie schloss solitude, DE)

14.05-25.06.2018 : In residence at the European Investment Bank (Luxembourg, LU)

26.04.2018 : Presenting edible counter-imaginaries and digital data funerals at Interfaces Monthly 'Flesh and Feeling' organised by The Trampery & The Barbican Centre 💾💽. (London, UK)

15.02-04.03.2018 : Residency at the Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP) (Helsinki, FI])

08.01-07.02.2018 : Landscape Leakage a workshop in MAGMD @ LCC (brief) (London, UK)

25.11.2017 : Terra Preta - Terra Obscura. On Earth Grabbing, Forest Deserts (and Desserts), and Black Gold. 🌲 🌳 🌴 A genealogy of yet another carbon derivative talk at Onsite Gallery (Toronto, CA)

10.11-17.12.2017 : 'Récupération' solo exhibition at Centre des arts de Shawinigan (Shawinigan, CA)

01.11.2017 : A review of Sight + Sound by Greg J. Smith in Creative Applications Network.

20.10.2017 : 'Carbon Derivatives' in ATARAXIA (salonière Koyo Kouoh) in biennals.ch at the Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi (Venice, IT)

11.10.2017 : Discussing digital death and immortality on Global News Radio 640 Toronto (Toronto, CA)

28.09-01.10.2017 : 'Goodnight Sweetheart' in 'Non-Compliant Futures' exhibition at Never Apart Gallery (Montreal, CA)

28.09.2017 : Research Network: Carbon Rifts. FRAUD in conversation with Shela Sheikh at Iniva (London, UK)

21.09-17.11.2017 : 'Goodnight Sweetheart' in 'Emotion + the Tech(no)body' exhibition curated by Sally Golding at the Austrian Cultural Forum London (London, UK)

15.09.2017 : Design Diplomacy in Helsinki Design Week at the British Ambassador’s residence (Helsinki, FI)

14.09-21.12.2017 : 'Shrimping under Working Conditions' in 'A New We' exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim curated by the Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (Trondheim, NO)

13.09.2017 : A fore(s)taste at the Helsinki Design Week at Galleria Sinne (Helsinki, FI)

15.08-18.09.2017 & 15.08-18.09.2017 : Residency at Helsinki International Artist Programme HIAP (Helsinki, FI)

27.06-02.07.2017 : 'Let them eat cake!' in Microbites of Innovation exhibition at the Art Science Museum (Singapore, SG)

05.06-24.09.2017 : 'Que quiere ver canarias?' (acquired by CDAN) in El Borde de une herida curated by Guardiola at Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN) (Huesca, SP)

16.05-30.05.2017 : Residency at Helsinki International Artist Programme HIAP (Helsinki, FI)

28.04.2017 : Finissage + networked conversations 'Embedded Politics of Technology' (London, UK - Graz, AT)

08.04.2017 : Selected with FRAUD for the Helsinki Design residency organised by the British Council, to work on #CarbonDerivatives.

01.04.2017 : Joining Somerset House Studios ! (London, UK)

29.03.2017 : 'Goodnight Sweetheart' review in Radio Steiermark - "Gute Nacht zu unseren digitalen Spuren".

29.03.2017 : 'Goodnight Sweetheart' networked digital data funeral performance London - Linz - Graz. Hosted by esc medien kunst labor.

17.03-28.04.2017 : 'Goodnight Sweetheart' solo exhibition at esc medien kunst labor (Graz, AT)

01.03.2017 : Joining University of Greenwich as senior lecturer in digital arts (London, UK)

17.02-04.06.2017 : 'Que quiere ver canarias?' in El Borde de une herida curated by Guardiola at Centro-centro (Madrid, ES)

05.02.2017 : Executing practices launched at Transmediale (Berlin, DE)

21.12.2016 : 'Goodnight Sweetheart' presented at #digitag2 : Archaeological Storytelling & the Digital Turn. Write-up (Southampton, UK)

04.11.2016 : Dégustation Amère performance (London, UK)

25-29.10.2016 : Research in the Nantes diplomatic archives (Nantes, FR)

01.10.2016 : Presentation at RIXC Media Center #openFields (Riga, LT)

29.08.2016 : Shrimping After Working Conditions workshop (Leigh-On-Sea, UK)

18.08-26.09.2016 : FRAUD in residence at the Delfina Foundation (London, UK)

01.06.2016 : 'Goodnight Sweetheart' review in Die Referentin newspaper (AT)

05.2016 : Goodnight Sweetheart in 'Behind the Smart World' exhibition in AMRO 2016 at KunstRaum + digital.data.funeral(selfie) workshops (Linz, AT)

11.03.2016 : 'Behind the Smart World' publication is out! featuring #digitaldatafunerals [pdf]

06.03.2016 : ne.me.quitte(s).pas features in web series 'Revisiting Genesis' by Oreet Ashery.

05.03.2016 : Shortlisted Future Cemetary Design Award

02.2016 : Goodnight Sweetheart featured in Radio Canada's #numéricains series (Montreal, CA)

30.01.2016 : Dreaming in tongues/舌頭/langues/ بألسنة/tunger featured in Århus Stiftstidende (Aarhus, DK)

30.01.2016 : Tasting event: Dreaming in tongues/舌頭/langues/ بألسنة/tunger @ Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus, DK)

28.01.2016 : Presentation: 'Death in Infinite Times' @ IT University of Copenhagen's Culture and Games department (Copenhagen, DK)

01.2016 : Shortlisted for the Future Cemetery Design Award

03.12.2015 : Presentation: 'Memory execution / immortal data' @ Executions: conversations on code, power & death (version 0.1) held at Aarhus University (Aarhus, DK)

11.2015-02.2016 : Visiting researcher @ Aarhus University's School of Communication and Culture (Aarhus, DK)

10-24.10.2015 : Goodnight Sweetheart part of 'The Promise of the Internet' exhibition @ DINA (Sheffield, UK)

10.2015 : 'Let Them Eat cake!' article published in The Forager Magazine

17-18.08.2015 : Presentation: 'Erasure and the Datafied Self' @ Second International Death Online Research Symposium held at Kingston University (London, UK)

29.05.2015 : Goodnight Sweetheart workshop @ Victoria and Albert Museum in the context of the Friday Late programme (London, UK)

22-23.04.2015 : Posthumans n postburials workshop @ University of the Arts London (UAL) in the context of the Access Through Tools festival (London, UK)

20-22.03.2015 : Chéri, ne me quitte pas featured in 24h newspaper (Montréal, CA)

03.03.2015 : Goodnight Sweetheart featured in The Link newspaper (Montréal, CA)

01-03.2015 : Developing Funeral Parlour Data Embalming Services in the context of a residency @ Eastern Bloc (Montreal, Canada)

31.01.2015 : Presentation in the Capture Things panel @ Transmediale, and release of Datafied Research (Volume 4, Issue 1, 2015) published by Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University in collaboration with Transmediale (Berlin, DE)

28.01.2015 : 'Erasure, an attempt to surpass datafication' published in the APRJA journal datafied research issue.

09-22.10.2014 : ne.me.quitte(s).pas part of the Tracing Data exhibition organised by The Writing Machine Collective @ Connecting Spaces (Hong Kong, HK / Zürich, CH)

12-14.09.2014 : Data funerals presentation (with Julian Priest) [video here] in the ADA Mesh Cities event hosted @ the Auckland University of Technology (Auckland, NZ)

27.03.2014 : Presentation of Speedshow 2.0 Hong Kong with Winnie Soon in the Cultural Transformations, Technology and Urban Development Roundtable Symposium @ Aarhus University (Aarhus, DK)

27-29.01.2014 : Roger10-4 in Art Hack Day | Transmediale @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Arte Creative, WMN!, and Motherboard coverage of our Field Sweeper Inc. project (Berlin, DE)

17.01-10.03.2014 : Guest teacher in Dan Buzzo's Digital Media course @ University of Western England (Bristol, UK)

01-03.2014 : Visiting researcher @ Goldsmiths' Centre for Cultural Studies. Working on ne.me.quittes.pas (London, UK)

08.12.2014 : Speedshow 2.0 together with Winnie Soon @ Cafe Kubrick (Hong Kong, HK)

09-12.2013 : 'Assistant hacker' in Samson Young's Blip, Blink & Move Laboratory @ School of Creative Media (Hong Kong, HK)

24.07.2013 : "Tassophonics: Nanotechnology and the magical unknown" in HCI International / Conference Proceedings (Springer publications)

27.05-07.07.2013 : Roger10-4 part of Haptic Interface exhibition @ Hong Kong House (Sydney, Australia)

19-26.05.2013 : Roger10-4 workshop/presentation in Datenspiel @ Hybrid City biennial (Athens, GR)

18.05.2013 : Roger10-4 part of Love Bazon hate Brock exhibition @ Kreuzberg Pavillon (Berlin, DE)

06.04.2013 : Haptic interface workshop with Tricia Flanagan and showing Roger10-4 @ Shenzhen Mini Maker Faire (Shenzhen, CN)

21.11.2012 : Failed Roger10-4 contribution to the Haptic InterFace Exhibition - thank you DHL! (Hong Kong)

01.11.2012 : Aether9 book is out!

09.2012 : Big move to Hong Kong - start PhD research at the School of Creative Media. (Hong Kong)

29.07-04.08.2012 : Telematic broadcasting tools workshop/performance @ 24HR Art (Darwin, Australia)

16-21.06.2012 : Aether9 book sprint with OSP (Brussels, NL)

05.2012 : Prototyping Tassophonics (Amsterdam, NL)

01.04.2012 : Finissage 'Zing!' exhibition (Rotterdam, NL)

05-10/03.2012 : Körperspule workshop and presentation during /etc in Kiberpipa (Ljubljana, SLO)

20-22/01.2012 : Körperspule workshop @ MAKE ME ECLECTIC festival in Museums Quartier (MQ) (Vienna, A)

12.2011 : Vibrobot, Digital Jewelry and USme workshops @ Planet M mobile tent (Amsterdam, NL)

17-20.11.2011 : Electromagnetic Cityscape workshop @ Piksel11 - check NRK news coverage (Bergen, NO)

10/11.2011 : Vibrobot workshops @ NIMK - part of 'The art of Hacking' exhibition tour and Museumnacht (Amsterdam, NL)

25.10.2011 : Deriving the Equilibrium artist talk @ Piet Zwart Institute (networked media) (Rotterdam, NL)

17.09.2011 : Cyborg Vanity panel and Weird/Wonderful Street Fair workshop @ ISEA (Istanbul, TR)

05-14.07.2011 : Roger 10-4 working @ Weise7 (Berlin, DE)

10-11.06.2011 : Electromagnetic Cityscape, Roger 10-4 workshop @ Napravi me! (Belgrade, SRB)

13-14.05.2011 : Liwoli, do you copy?, Roger 10-4 workshop @ Liwoli (Linz, A)

24.04.2011 : FLOSS narratives presentation, Programme#09 @ The UnifiedField (Granada, ES)

11.03-10.04.2011 : fils/threads online interface in DOGTIME the shortcut @ Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam, NL)

17-20.11.2010 : threads/ installation @ HTMlles (Montreal, Canada)

12+14.11.2010 : Intimacy over Distance workshop @ the Israeli Center for Digital Art (Holon, IL)

06.11.2010 : Confession performative installation @ Oude Kerk on Museumnacht (Amsterdam, NL)

17.06.2010 : White Smoke lecture / book presentation @ Designhuis (Eindhoven, NL)

25.05.2010 : aether9 presentation @ SAT (Montreal, Canada)

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)


*this site is not optimised for explorer [not that anyone should use that browser...]

p r o j e c t s

> Finis terra
> _Whitepaper
> Carbon Rifts
> Landscape Leakage [workshop]
> Carbon Derivatives - a fore(s)taste
> Shrimping Under Working Conditions [workshop]
> Dreaming in tongues/舌頭/langues/ةنسلأب/tunger
> Let them eat cake! [vimeo]
> Goodnight Sweetheart[vimeo]
> Chéri, ne me quitte pas[vimeo]
> SPEED SHOW [2.0] Hong Kong
> Roger 10-4
> Aether9
> Sing!
> Tassophonics
> Vibrobots
> Digital Art Lab
> threads/ (browser version)
> Confession
> Portable Pixels and Worn Out Sounds
> Connected domes
> Badger


p u b l i c a t i o n s

> Samson, Audrey. "Digital Data Funerals." In Residues of death: Disposal refigured, edited by Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen and Luke van Ryn. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.


> Gallardo, Francisco, and Audrey Samson. "Commercial Extinction; The Exhaustion of Exhaustion." In The Empire Shop Remains, edited by Daniel Fernandez and Alon Schwabe, 109-19. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.


> Samson, Audrey, Lea Muldtofte, Winnie Soon, Eric Snodgrass, and Francisco Gallardo. "Execution". In The Posthuman Glossary, edited by Rosa Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, 141-44. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2018.


> Schäfer, Mirko T., and Audrey Samson. "Static Glow." In The Posthuman Glossary, edited by Rosa Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, 407-10. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2018.


> Samson, Audrey, and Francisco Gallardo. "Let Them Eat cake!" In C&C '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 428-429. New York: ACM, 2017.


> Samson, Audrey. "Erasure." In Data Browser 06: Executing Practices, edited by Helen Pritchard, Eric Snodgrass, and Magda Tyżlik-Carver, 143-54. New York: Autonomedia. 2016.


> Gallardo, Francisco, and Audrey Samson. "Shrimping Under Working Conditions." In Data Browser 06: Executing Practices, edited by Helen Pritchard, Eric Snodgrass, and Magda Tyżlik-Carver, 253-66. New York: Autonomedia, 2016.


> Samson, Audrey, and Winnie Soon. "Network Affordances: Unpredictable parameters of a Hong Kong SPEED SHOW." The Fibreculture Journal 24 (2015). http://twentyfour.fibreculturejournal.org/2015/06/04/44/.


> Samson, Audrey. "Erasure, an attempt to surpass datafication." APRJA , no. 1 (2015). http://www.aprja.net/erasure-an-attempt-to-surpass-datafication/.


> Samson, Audrey, and Kristina Andersen. "Tassophonics: Nanotechnology as the Magical Unknown." In Design, User Experience, and Usability. User Experience in Novel Technological Environments, edited by Aaron Marcus, 548-57. Berlin: Springer, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39238-2_60.


> Samson, Audrey. "Pixel Experience Poetics." In White Smoke, edited by Hexaplex, 3-7. Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2010.


> Samson, Audrey. "Haunted profiles; Social networking sites and the crisis of death." In Re:live Media Art Histories 2009 conference proceedings, edited by Sean Cubitt, and Paul Thomas, 140-47. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne & Victorian College of the Arts and Music, 2009.


t e a c h i n g

> 2018-today: Co-head of Digital Arts Computing BSc and lecturer in Fine Arts(Critical Studies), Goldsmiths, University of London (London, UK)
> 2017-18: Senior Lecturer University of Greenwich (London, UK)
> 2016: Lecturer @ University of the West of England (Bristol, UK)
> 2012-14: Teaching Assistant @ School of Creative Media (Hong Kong, HK)
> 2008-12: Tutor @ Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, NL)
> 2008-10: Tutor @ Willem de Kooning Academie (Rotterdam, NL)
+ guest lectures


b i o

Audrey Samson is an artist-researcher whose performative installations explore how memory and technical objects are iteratively reconfigured and entangled in the context of networked data archiving. She works together with Francisco Gallardo in the duo FRAUD, currently resident at the Somerset House Studios. Samson's work has been presented internationally.