Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne
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Exhibition
Data Relations
...critically and poetically reflect on our contemporary data economy and techno-mediated relationships in ways that are profound, humorous, poetic and, at times, confronting. Concerns that impact all aspects of contemporary day to day life loom large. Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne hijack clickbait logic...
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Program
Data Relations: Curatorial Walkthrough
Join Guest Curator Miriam Kelly and Coordinating Curator Shelley McSpedden for a walkthrough of Data Relations. They will provide insights into the exhibition including the six major new commissions and site-specific installations by Zach Blas, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Lauren Lee...
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Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne: Offset
Tega Brain and Sam LavigneOffset 2023Alternative carbon credit registry...
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Program
Opening Celebration of Data Relations
...of artificial intelligence. Featuring Australian and international artists: Zach Blas, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern), Lauren Lee McCarthy, Mimi Ọnụọha and Winnie Soon, plus Data Relations Summer School...
Press Release
Data Relations
Featuring artists: Zach Blas, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern), Mimi Onuoha, Winnie Soon; plus Data Relations Summer School Guest Curator Miriam Kelly, Coordinating...
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Data Relations Exhibition Kit
Artists: Zach Blas, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern), Mimi Ọnụọha, Winnie Soon; plus Data Relations Summer School...
Press Release
ACCA launches new Digital Wing
A new commission by New York based artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne and the Data Relations digital publication will launch ACCA’s new Digital Wing on 30 January 2023...
Press Release
2023 Artistic Program
March 19
Artists: Zach Blas, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Machine Listening, Mimi Onuoha, Winne Soon, and the Digital Relations Summer School
Curator: Miriam Kelly
Coordinating Curator: Shelley McSpedden
Data Relations brings together artist-led projects...
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Data Relations Summer School Schedule
RMIT: Scrapism with Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne and Machine Vision Reading Group with Chris O’Neill, Thao Phan, Zach Blas and Michael Richardson
Public Program #2, 6–8pm, ACCA: Lauren Lee McCarthy: Surrogate, Performance in Progress...
Podcast
Suvani Suri with Aasma Tulika, Uzma Falak, Shareeka Helaluddin, Mehak Sawhney
Listen to performance lectures 'Loops, Echoes, Phonophanies, and other Détournments' by Suvani Suri and 'Listening to Misrecognition' by Thao Phan, as well as an Artist Talk with Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne on their new digital commission 'Offset'.
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Program
Data Relations: Professional Learning for Teachers
Join exhibiting artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne with ACCA Educators for a teacher professional learning session in response to our current exhibition Data...
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Program
Data Relations Summer School Closing Event: Suvani Suri, Thao Phan, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne
...as an Artist Talk with Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne on their new digital commission Offset. The ACCA bar and exhibition will remain open throughout this event.
Performance lecture: Suvani Suri, Loops, Echoes, Phonophanies...
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Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne: What is data?
Centre for Contemporary Art) · Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne...
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Digital Wing
...artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, which functions as an alternate carbon credit registry for the emerging global voluntary carbon offset market. The work has been commissioned by ACCA as part...
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STEM in Art
Key Idea 2: Algorithms
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Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, Offset, 2023
Support Material
For Teachers...
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Teacher Professional Learning
...and workshop with Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne
2022 Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH Artist talk...
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Data in contemporary art exhibitions by Miriam Kelly
...between ideas and images, histories of film, literature, music and art, while weaving new and political narratives pertinent to the datafied contemporary experience.
Similarly, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne are New York and Sydney-based collaborators who, with tongue firmly in cheek, both...
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Data Relations Summer School Callout
Sam Lavigne (exhibiting artist, University of Texas, USA)
Sean Dockray (exhibiting artist, Australian National University, Australia)
Shareeka Helaluddin (Capture All artist...
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Video
Data Relations exhibition video featuring artists Zach Blas, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern), Mimi Ọnụọha and Winnie Soon
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Contributor Biographies
Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He has exhibited work at Lincoln Center, SFMOMA, Pioneer Works, DIS, Ars Electronica, The New Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Sam is currently...