Sam Hains is digital artist, programmer and researcher whose practice
centers around the critical examination of digital tools and their connection to modernity. His work integrates newfangled, popularly lauded techniques and technologies—
like artificial intelligence, generative algorithmic processes, and
software-enabled data analytics—with a critical eye to their points of
breakage.
He is a Design Studio Lead in Digital Media at RMIT, School of Design and holds an M.PS in Creative Technology from Tisch, NYU.
Research interests include generative AI, automation, blockchain, post-humanism, appropriation art, worldbuilding, NFT, database as medium and digital tools.