Sam Lavigne

The Enron scandal was, as of 2004, the largest bankruptcy in American history and is a prescient example of corporate fraud and audit failure.

Cut-out masks made from the faces of 130 executives at leading biometric corporations.

An index of selected commodities listed for sale on alibaba.com.

White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US.

I emailed a single-question yes/no survey to the top 3000 economists in the world: “Do capitalists earn profit by exploiting workers?”

A collection of 800,000 imperitive statements scraped from wikihow.com, assembled into a book and website.

Slow Hot Computer is a website that makes your computer run slow and hot.

Over the course of a week I used a consumer-grade EEG machine to record my brain activity while shopping online and thinking about my own mortality.

In Guided Meditation the rituals of the presidential election become a guided meditation performed by the candidates for their own self-actualization, a processes of renewal and self-healing for the ruling class.

Smell Dating is a dating service that matches you based on scent alone.

I programmed and co-produced “PCKCK”, an experimental online platform that allowed Joshua Cohen to write a novella in real time.

I produced and code The Data Drive, a reproduction of Facebook made entirely of printed material set in a dystopian reality in which Mark Zuckerberg has gone into hiding after stealing everyone’s data.

Custom brick.

Ultra-condensed self-help audio books.

Street Views is an inventory of physical locations whose legal, political or social statuses are in some way remarkable, but invisible to a casual observer.

Useless Press was an experimental publishing platform that created eclectic internet things.

Case Study is a briefcase that analyzes and produces visualizations of literary/philosophical texts using weaponized natural language processing software originally developed by the military.

Video piece made from found footage of prisoners and detainees, shown in Times Square.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, founded by the United Nations in 1988, is the “leading international body for the assessment of climate change.”

CSPAN-5 is a video Twitter bot.

A map of people on LinkedIn within 2 or 3 degrees of separation from me who have received endorsements for skills like “surveillance” and “interrogation”.

Prisons are a big business, and like all business they are occasionally reviewed on Yelp.

Videogrep is an open source command line tool that searches through dialog in video files (using .srt or .vtt subtitle tracks, or pocketsphinx transcriptions) and makes supercuts based on what it finds.

A slideshow that places the spectator into various historical contexts.

Part 1 of a series of speculative virtual reality projects.

Part 2 of a series of speculative virtual reality projects.

An automatically generated Zazzle store offering products adorned with leaked NSA documents.

LazyCoin is a physical currency that anyone can mint by doing nothing.

A python script that transforms literary and philosophical texts into patent applications.

Why do we work so hard?

A one-day event where participants conceptualize and create projects that have no value whatsoever.