Sam Lavigne
Sam Lavigne. Photo courtesy of the Artist.
Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator who plugs into the interlocking interfaces of data, surveillance and policing, as well as natural language processing and automation.
From publishing a database of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees in response to the Trump administration's family separation policy, to White Collar Crime Zones — a re-appropriation of a predictive policing algorithm — his work harnesses digital tools such as apps and information mining. These online interventions reveal the often opaque political and economic conditions moulding computational technologies. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, New Museum, Ars Electronica and IDFA Doclab, among others.
