Sam Heydt is an American social practice and new media artist born and raised in New York City. She has lived and worked in Paris, Venice, Amsterdam, Athens, Sydney, Udaipur and currently resides in Vienna. Heydt's work continuously examines different phenomenologies of our hyper-mediated society wherein tabloids become history. Her interest lies in semiology's role in the mutability of history, disillusionment of the social psyche and exploitation of a world increasingly reduced to a bottom line. Heydt’s work exhibits internationally and sits in the permanent collection of a number of museums.