About

Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He is a Creative Capital grantee, recipient of the Pioneer Works Working Artist Fellowship, and the Brown Institute’s Magic Grant. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Synthetic Media and Algorithmic Justice at the Parsons School of Design.

Software

• FFMpeg Explorer: a tool to explore FFmpeg filters in the browser
• 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

• All that is Air Melts into Air
• Scrapism: A Manifesto (pdf download)
• 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: lav.io/news

Email: contactsamlavigne@gmail.com
Twitter: @sam_lavigne
Github: github.com/antiboredom
Vimeo: vimeo.com/saaaam
YouTube: youtube.com/c/saaaam