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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]
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