Dr Audrey Samson
Staff details

Audrey Samson is Head of the Digital Arts Computing BSc and a lecturer in Fine Arts (Critical Studies) in the Art Department at Goldsmiths. Resident at the Somerset House Studios, she is a critical technical practitioner in the métis duo FRAUD, which develops forms of art-led enquiry into modes of governmentality and power that flow through physical and cultural spaces, and their entanglements with networked technical objects.
Her work has presented work at such institutions as le Salon Suisse (the 57th Venice Biennale) (IT); the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK); the Whitechapel Gallery (UK); the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale (NL); Kunsthal Aarhus (DK); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE); Kunsthal Trondheim (NO); le Bâtiment d’art Contemporain (CH); the ArtScience Museum (SG); la Maison d’Art Actuel des Chartreux (BE); and CentroCentro (SP).
Up to date list of publications/exhibitions can be found here
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
Samson, Audrey. 2021. Partnerships; or how to reap without sowing. In: Mariana Pestana; Sumitra Upham and Billie Muraben, eds. Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one. Eindhoven: Onomatopee, pp. 215-226. ISBN 9789493148598
Gauthier, David; Samson, Audrey; Snodgrass, Eric; Soon, Winnie and Tyżlik-Carver, Magda. 2021. Executing. In: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup; Daniela Agostinho; Annie Ring; Catherine D'Ignazio and Kristin Veel, eds. Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 209-216. ISBN 9780262539883
Samson, Audrey. 2019. Digital data funerals. In: Tamara Kohn; Martin Gibbs; Bjorn Nansen and Luke van Ryn, eds. Residues of Death. Routledge, pp. 91-106. ISBN 9780429456404
Samson, Audrey and Gallardo, Francisco. 2018. Commercial extinction: The exhaustion of exhaustion. In: Daniel Fernandez Pascual and Alon Schwabe, eds. The Empire Remains Shop. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 109-119. ISBN 9781941332375
Samson, Audrey and Tobias Schäfer, Mirko. 2018. Static Glow. In: Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, eds. Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 407-411. ISBN 9781350030244
Samson, Audrey; Muldtofte, Lea; Soon, Winnie; Snodgrass, Eric and Gallardo, Francisco. 2018. Execution. In: Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, eds. Posthuman Glossary. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 141-145. ISBN 9781350030244
Gallardo, Francisco and Samson, Audrey. 2017. Shrimping under working conditions. In: Helen Pritchard; Eric Snodgrass and Magda Tyżlik-Carver, eds. EXECUTING PRACTICES. (06) Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, pp. 253-266. ISBN 9781570273216
Samson, Audrey. 2017. Erasure. In: Helen Pritchard; Eric Snodgrass and Magda Tyżlik-Carver, eds. EXECUTING PRACTICES. (06) Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, pp. 143-154. ISBN 9781570273216
Article
Samson, Audrey. 2015. Erasure, an attempt to surpass datafication. APRJA (A Peer-Reviewed Journal About), 4(1), pp. 44-55.
Samson, Audrey and Soon, Winnie. 2015. Network Affordances: Unpredictable parameters of a Hong Kong SPEED SHOW. The Fibreculture Journal(24),
Art Object
Samson, Audrey. 2015. Goodnight Sweetheart; A digital data funeral.
Audio
Samson, Audrey. 2022. Critical Raw Materials Podcast Series by FRAUD.
Conference or Workshop Item
Samson, Audrey and Gallardo, Francisco. 2017. 'Let them eat cake!'. In: 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition. Singapore, Singapore 27-30 June 2017.