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Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator known for his work with code, data, and natural language processing. Addressing issues of surveillance, cops, automation, and ecology, his practice takes the form of rhetorical software and code-based interventions that probe the politics of computational systems while opening up new ways of thinking and designing with them. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, Pioneer Works, Ars Electronica, and at galleries and museums worldwide. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Design at UT Austin and a 2023 Creative Capital Awardee. Sam Lavigne; Scrapism: A Manifesto. Critical AI 1 October 2023; 1 (1-2): No Pagination Specified. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/2834703X-10734046 Download citation file: Web scraping is a technique for automatically downloading and processing web content or converting online text and other media into structured data. This article describes the role that web scraping plays for web business

Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator known for his work with code, data, and natural language processing. Addressing issues of surveillance, cops, automation, and ecology, his practice takes the form of rhetorical software and code-based interventions that probe the politics of computational systems while opening up new ways of thinking and designing with them. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, Pioneer Works, Ars Electronica, and at galleries and museums worldwide. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Design at UT Austin and a 2023 Creative Capital