Audrey Samson

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Audrey Samson is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose work points to the materiality of data and its consequences.{{cite web|url=http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/putting-data-to-rest|title=Putting Data to Rest | Fringe Arts – The Link|date=2015-03-03|website=Thelinknewspaper.ca|access-date=2016-04-03}} She is largely known for her exploration of erasure as a means of knowledge production through digital data funerals.{{cite web|url=http://diereferentin.servus.at/die-schmutzigen-seiten-unserer-high-tech-welt/|title=Die Referentin;Die schmutzigen Seiten unserer High Tech Welt|website=diereferentin.servus.at|date=June 2016|access-date=2017-06-08}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://roger10-4.hotglue.me/ |title=Roger10-4 |language=en |access-date=21 August 2017}} Their work was featured in Arte,{{cite web |url=http://creative.arte.tv/de/episode/leaking-transmediale-medienkunst-zeiten-totaler-transparenz |title=Leaking Transmediale: Medienkunst in Zeiten totaler Transparenz | ARTE Creative |language=de |website=Creative.arte.tv |access-date=2016-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124015953/http://creative.arte.tv/de/episode/leaking-transmediale-medienkunst-zeiten-totaler-transparenz |archive-date=2015-11-24 |url-status=dead }} NRK,{{cite web|url=http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/287047/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160403021735/http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/287047/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-04-03 |title=NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling |website=Nrk.no |access-date=2016-04-03}} and Motherboard. She has been an active member of the networked performance group aether9,{{Cite book|title=aether9 - Remote Realtime Storytelling|last=aether9|publisher=Greyscale Press|year=2011|isbn=978-2-9700706-4-1|location=Ghent}} 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.{{cite web|author=Somerset House Studios |url=https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/residents/fraud |title=Somerset House Studios residents |date=6 March 2017 |language=en |access-date=21 August 2017}}

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.{{Cite book |last1=Sabra |first1=Jakob Borrits |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1042329783 |title=The Routledge handbook of death and the afterlife |last2=Troyer |first2=John |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge |others=Candi K. Cann |isbn=978-1-134-81734-4 |location=Abingdon, Oxon |pages=115 |chapter=The Right to Be Dead: Designing Future Cemeteries |oclc=1042329783}}