A pair of black hands holding a phone with a looping video of a black body floating in space. The piece thematically deals with the experience of viewing violence, and moments of grief through screens.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Tristan Sauer is a New Media Artist and Curator critically interested in technology and capitalism, viewing their relationship as a potential modern-day Pandora's box. His work explores the intersections between our digital and physical worlds, and what an inside-out look at our relationships with technology can reveal about the human condition. Working with mediums such as wearable technology, electronic sculpture, and net-art, Sauer often explores these topics through an afro-futurist lens imagining and critiquing techno-capitalisms impacts on our future. A graduate of the New Media program at Toronto Metropolitan University, Sauer has presented locally at the Plumb, Meridian Art Centre, Gallery 1313, Whippersnapper Gallery, Lansdowne Station, with The Artist Project and Nuit Blanche. He has curated for Long Winter, Symbicocene Gallery, REEL Asian Film Festival, Xpace Cultural Centre, Ed Video Media Arts Centre, and C MAG.