Guillaume Saur

Guillaume Saur, Cloud Installation Shot, Inkjet prints mounted on dibond

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Bio/Statement

Guillaume Saur is currently an MFA candidate at Emily Carr University, whose practice explores Artificial Intelligence and the cultures of display through the repurposing of algorithms designed by multimillion-dollar companies, hereby revealing the underlying social and political artifices embodied by such technologies through a generated language of images.

In addition to working with repurposed algorithms, he is conducting material research in large format printing and custom displays in order to deconstruct and reinvent merchandising aesthetics as they relate to users’ digital costumes, avatars, and other representational artefacts, through the creation of an artist-run virtual laboratory for collecting data and image-making.

Lately, he has been exploring with generative models that contribute to raising awareness toward extractive systems and surveillance technologies, thus reversing the gaze on power systems populating digital territories while questioning the impact of artificial intelligence and its potential future outcomes.

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EDUCATION

2022 - MFA, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada (expected graduation)
2020 - BFA Studio Art, Photography program, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Grants & Awards

2021 - Joseph Armand Bombardier Scholarship, SSHRC, Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program
2021 - Emily Carr University Merit Award Bursary, Vancouver
2020 - Research and Creation Entrance Scholarship, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
2020 - Fine Art Student Alliance, Special Project Grant, Concordia University, Montreal
2018 - Faculty of Fine Arts Development Fund Scholarship, Concordia University, Montreal
2018 - Fine Art Student Alliance, Special Project Grant, Concordia University, Montreal

Exhibitions & Festivals

Solo Exhibitions
2017 - Her & I, Espace des Mêmes, Montreal
2016 - Le monde de l’exil, photobook launch, La boutique noire MTL, Montreal
2016 - Triptyque & Nuancée, Kafein Café-Bar, Montreal
2015 - J’ai peur des poissons, photobook launch, Thazard, Montreal
Group Exhibitions
2021 - Conversation, Maytens Project, Toronto
2021 - State of Practice, SOP, Michael O’Brian Commons, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
2020 - Salon d'août, Anteism Books- Project Space, Montreal
2020 - Soft Power, Art Matters Festival, Studio XX, Montréal
2019 - Would You Bury Me, Art Matters Festival, Place Publique, Darling Foundry, Montreal
2019 - Misconstructed, Vav Gallery, Montreal
2019 - On a Scale of 1 to 10, Galerie du Viaduc, Montreal
2018 - Traces of Process, CPC's group show, Glass Door Gallery, Montreal
2018 - BLUEPRINTS, Art Matters Festival, Vav Gallery, Montreal
2016 - Analog MTL, Matahari Loft, Montreal
2014 - Foire d'art, Espace Pop, Montreal
2014 - La couleur de la viande, Lapin Pressé Café, Montreal

Publications

2021 - WOO Publication, (SOME)TIME, Spring issue
2021- Shifting Ground : Imag(in)ing Canada’s Receding Arctic Coast, Dialogista vaikuttamista, collaborator
2020 – I Need to Talk to You, group research seminar scholar article (web & paper)
2020 - Musée en quarantaine, Duplicata, "DIY / Fait main" musée d'art de Joliette
2020 - Art in Quarantine, Touching Realities, Gallery & Studio Art Journal
2020 - Spectacle, Issue 23.1, The Void Magazine
2016 - Lisbon Story, UP! Urban Photography Magazine
2012 - 5 Tumblr Montreal, Nightlife Magazine

Interviews

2017 - Electric Triptych, Hunger TV Magazine
2017 - Artist Biography, Analogue Vibes Magazine
2013 - Taper dans l’oeil, Ton Barbier Magazine

Catalogues

2019 - Art Matters festival’s catalogue, edition
2019 - Colorimetry of North American Surfaces, edition
2018 - Art Matters festival’s catalogue, edition

Lectures & Teaching

2021 - Cloud Culture: Possibilities of Digital Multiculturalism, Gallery Weekend, Toronto
2021 - The Motherboard, annual Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories (CADN) Conference, Toronto
2021 - Teaching assistant, Visual Art Senior Studio 410, ECUAD, Vancouver
2020 - "In Touch" Graduate Research Symposium, Digital Touch panel, Vancouver
2020 - Teaching assistant, Visual Art Senior Studio 400, ECUAD, Vancouver

Related work experiences

2021 - Research assistantship, Algorithmic Aporias, SSHRC-supported research project, Vancouver
2020-2021 - Research assistantship, Shifting Ground, SSHRC-supported research project, Vancouver
2020 - Web design, research scholar group, I Need to Talk to You, ECUAD, Vancouver
2019 - Co-curation, The Waste Land exhibition, Concordia Photography Collective, Skol, Montreal
2018-2019 - Booking Officer/Social Media Coordinator, CPC, Montreal
2015-2016 – Co-founder & Photographer of Creative Collective “Liberi Noctis” Montreal
2011-2013 – Head Merchandiser & Window Designer Canada, American Apparel, Montreal

Collections

Pelicano Restaurant, Montréal
Thazard Restaurant, Montréal

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