Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne: Artist Lecture

Tega Brain is an Australian artist and environmental engineer born when atmospheric CO2 was below 350ppm. Her work addresses issues of ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure and has taken the form of digital networks controlled by environmental phenomena, schemes for obfuscating personal data, and a wildly popular, online smell-based dating service. Through these provisional systems she investigates how technologies orchestrate and reorchestrate agency. Tega is co-author of Code as Creative Medium (MIT Press) with CMU School of Art Faculty, Golan Levin. Tega is currently an Industry Associate Professor of Technology, Culture and Society at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose practice deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He works both on the web, and through installations and prints. He is a Creative Capital grantee, recipient of the Pioneer Works Working Artist Fellowship, and the Brown Institute’s Magic Grant. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, Lincoln Center, Ars Electronica and elsewhere, and has been widely covered in the press. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Synthetic Media and Algorithmic Justice at the Parsons School of Design.