Profil Samson Amélie

Art / Design / Research

Artist, maker, diy-coder or designer, Amélie draws a line between the analogical and the digital by using both traditional techniques (drawing, ceramics) and contemporary ones (electronics, computer-assisted manufacturing). She has a particular interest in developing projects around games, interactive systems and human-machine interaction in general, which allow her to question the way in which human behaviour is altered when it comes into contact with technology.

Currently on :

► Research stay, may 2024, CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), Y.spot,  Grenoble, France

► Sept 2021 – today : co-founder of the “Collectif Kaïros” with Eva Vedel

► Sept 2020 – today : Member of the research programme Objects, Craft and Computation within the research unit ECOLAB, ESAD Orléans, France

Exhibitions

► DNA, Festival Art Numérique, ( digital art festival ) may 2024, Grenoble (FR)

► Eurofabrique, feb. 2024, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris (FR)

► DIS[PLAYERS], feb. 2024, Les Tanneries - Contemporary art centre of national interest, Amilly (FR)

► Festival Matricule, Bis nov. 2023, Orléans (FR)

► Les formes du design, sept. 2023, Roselab, Toulouse (FR)

► Useful Fictions,  Lab 3 "Objets à comportements, objets curieux", july 2023, Théâtre de la Ville - Espace Cardin, Paris (FR)

► Jean Bardin aujourd'hui. ESAD Orléans : l’héritage. Computation, Céramique, Dessin, april 2023, Orléans Museum of Fine Arts (FR)

► U.S.B #4 Données brutes, feb. 2023, - ÉSAD's Gallery, Orléans (FR)

► Digital Soba Choko, dec. 2022, La Borne contemporary ceramics centre, La Borne (FR)

► Sztuka numeryczna - między wolnością a kontrolą ( Digital art - between freedom and control ), oct. 2022, WL4 - Przestrzeń Sztuki, Stocznia Cesarska, Gdańsk (Poland)

► U.S.B. #2 · + 4, oct. 2022, ÉSAD Orléans (FR)

► Festival Hop Pop Hop, sept. 2022, Orléans (FR)

► Titre ? - à trouver, may 2022, Art centre the Transpalette, Bourges (FR)

► Premier Printemps, april 2022, Le Pays Où le Ciel est Toujours Bleu contemporary art gallery, Orléans (FR)

► Eurofabrique, feb. 2022 Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris (FR)

► Search bar # 2 – une exposition de l’ECOLAB, dec. 2021, Orléans Theatre (FR)

► Search_Bar #1 : Exposition des diplomé·e·s 2021, sept 2021, ÉSAD's Gallery (FR)

► Uncool memories # 5 – tiens ! un design passe, june 2021, Gallery of the National School of Architecture Paris-Val de Seine, Paris (FR)

► Uncool memories # 2, nov. 2020, ÉSAD's Gallery, Orléans (FR)

Residency

►Research stay, may 2024, CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), Y.spot,  Grenoble, France

► Art and science residency as Collectif Kaïros, feb - april 1024, ARD MATEX, CEMHTI and GREMI labs, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) / ESAD Orléans

► Research stay as Collectif Kaïros, Feb. 2024, Vaour

Talks and events

► Conference as Collectif Kaïros, presentation of the collective's work, Feb. 2024, Café Atmosphère, Vaour

► Presentation as part of the Collectif Kaïros at the PhD seminar "La recherche créative ou la créativité dans la recherche" ( "Creative research or creativity in research" ) organised by the LASLAR research unit, May 2023, Maison de la recherche en sciences humaines, Caen, France

► Attendance at the International Symposium on Electronic Art with the French delegation from the Office Franco-Québécois pour la jeunesse, May 2023, Paris

► Conference as Collectif Kaïros, "Design du Kaïros" feb. 2023, ESAD Orléans

► Conference "DATA_Sculptures : matérialiser et incarner des données", as a member of the research programme Objects, Craft and Computation, dec. 2022, for Open Data France, Leonard:Paris

Awards and distinctions

► Creation grant for the project Mutations, Feb. 2024, Les Tanneries - Centre d'art contemporain d'intérêt national, Amilly

► Arte Prize, for the Europa 2022 project, Feb. 2022

Press

► "Funerary design" interview as Collectif Kaïros, March 2024, Cfm radio ( link to podcast )

►Article "A commemorative stele for Didier", March 2024, La Dépêche, article by Boris Repac

► N° 145 of Culture & Recherche, "Création artistique et urgence écologique" (autumn-winter 2023), presentation of the Data_Vessel project by the OCC research programme

► Cahier complémentaire, Eurofabrique, fev 2022, Les Inrockuptible

Education

► DSRD ( Advanced Research Degree in Art and Design ), sept 2022 - today, ECOLAB, Orléans School of Art and Design (ESAD), France.

► Post-Master "Internet of Things", sept 2021- june 2022, Polytech Orléans, France.

► MA design commons, sept 2019 - june 2021, ESAD Orléans, under the supervision of Emmanuel Cyriaque and Caroline Zahnd. Congratulations from the jury.

► MA design commons, sept 2019 - june 2021, as Collectif Kaïros with Eva Vedel and Manon Souchet
Congratulations from the jury.

► BA Product and Spatial Design, sept 2016 - june 2019, ESAD Orléans, under the supervision of Claire Le Sage.