1. About - Sam Lavigne | Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation.
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Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data,
surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He is
currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at UT
Austin.
Software
- p5.vscode: an extension for Visual Studio Code to manage p5.js
projects
- p5.riso: a p5.js library for generating files suitable for Risograph
printing
- videogrep: python script to create automatic video supercuts
- audiogrep: python script to create automatic audio supercuts
- vidpy: video editing and compositing in python
- IndigEmoji: a sticker pack featuring Indigenous emoji (contributor)
- p5.js editor: a desktop editor for the p5.js project (deprecated)
Writing
- Gaslighting Your Boss: Creative Experiments in Digital Sabotage
- The Battle to Control the Carbon Media Cycle
- Rhetorical Software
- Immigration Made Easy
- Simulating Enron
- The Networked Assembly Line
- The Military Industrial Complex Yard Sale
Contact
Join my mailing list at: tinyletter.com/lolcapitalism
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @sam_lavigne
Github: github.com/antiboredom
Vimeo: vimeo.com/saaaam
YouTube: youtube.com/c/saaaam
2. Sam Lavigne - Wikipedia | Sam Lavigne (born 1981) is an artist and educator based in New York. His work deals with technology, data, surveillance, natural language processing, ...
Education[edit]
Born in San Francisco, Lavigne studied Comparative Literature at the
University of Chicago. He has a Master in Professional Studies at
Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
Lavigne has since taught at ITP/NYU,^([1]) The New School, and the
School for Poetic Computation, and was formerly Magic Grant fellow at
the Brown Institute at Columbia University,^([2]) and Special Projects
editor at the New Inquiry Magazine.^([3])
He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Design at
University of Texas in Austin.
Projects[edit]
Lavigne describes his work as "online interventions that surface the
frequently opaque political and economic conditions that shape
computational technologies".
He has exhibited work at the Whitney Museum,^([4]) the Shed,^([5])
Lincoln Center,^([6]) SFMOMA, Pioneer Works, DIS, Ars Electronica, the
New Museum.^([7])
Selected works include Smell Dating with artist Tega Brain,^([8]) White
Collar Crime Risk Zones,^([9][10][11]) The Good Life^([12]) and The
Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon.^([13][14])
He has been named an Honoree at the Webby Awards twice.^([15])
ICE controversy[edit]
In 2018, Lavigne published a database of the names of nearly 1600 U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees sourced from
LinkedIn in response to the Trump administration's family separation
policy.^([16]) The project was removed by GitHub who claimed it violated
community guidelines and information about the project removed from
Twitter and Medium.^([17][18]) This prompted WikiLeaks to post a
mirror.^([19][20]) Experts stated the project was not illegal as all
information was already publicly available.^([21])
References[edit]
1. ^
"SAM LAVIGNE". NYU TISCH. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
2. ^ "2017-18 Magic Grants Announced – Brown Institute". Retrieved
2020-05-05.
3. ^ Siddiqi, Ayesha (2014-12-19). "Announcing Derica Shields, Sam
Lavigne, and Anwar Batte". The New Inquiry. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
4. ^ Hampton, Rachelle (2020-04-02). "How Two Artists Combined
Thousands of NYC Listings Into an Ad for One Massive, $43.9 Billion
Apartment". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
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Artist and educator based in New York (born 1981)
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Sam Lavigne at the Re:publica conference 2023
Sam Lavigne (born 1981) is an artist and educator based in New York. His
work deals with technology, data, surveillance, natural language
processing, and automation.
Education[edit]
Born in San Francisco, Lavigne studied Comparative Literature at the
University of Chicago. He has a Master in Professional Studies at
Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
3. Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: The Good Life - New Museum | Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain: The Good Life. #. What kinds of texts are AI systems trained on? This artwork explores one unexpected source. Cover Image: Sam ...
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