Biography
Audrey Samson develops artistic strategies that examine the implications of the materiality of networks, exploring how social memory is related to objects and networked data archiving, particularly investigating the effects of these systems on how we remember and how they alter our experience. She thinks of ways of conceptualising data that could be understood within an ecosystem of human and non-human agents; as having a 'life cycle'. Her practice focuses on the erasure of data as a performative strategy that emphasises how sociopolitical issues are intertwined with network materiality. Her approach is anthropological and rooted in software studies informed by the cultural context of technology. Practice, theory, and knowledge sharing form a reciprocal relationship within her methodology that focuses on making invisible structures/systems tangible.
