Marion SchneiderCA/QC
Marion Schneider is a non-binary digital artist with a master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQAM (Montréal) and a degree in Digital Design from the École nationale supérieure Olivier de Serres (Paris). Their artistic research explores the poetic and political potential of technological tools. Rooted in a hacktivist ideology, their practice unfolds in the deviant space between queer art, ecological practices, and digital creation. Their works are often autonomous, porous, and loop-based, incorporating upcycling, as well as data sharing and reuse as core strategies.
They put forward a queer and affective way of thinking that seeks to infect the collective imagination through both aesthetic and conceptual experiences. At once humorous and biting, hopeful and grave, their installations, robotic sculptures, design objects, and web-based artworks invite us to imagine new narratives—and to speculate, or even hack alternative relationships with the world, technologies and matter.
Schneider has exhibited their work in various venues in Montréal and Québec City, including Galerie de l’UQAM, MUTEK, ICRA-X, Place des Arts and Art Mûr. Alongside their artistic practice, they also teach and give talks on digital art and queer ecological approaches in media arts. They have been awarded a SSHRC research grant for their master’s degree, UQAM’s honorary distinction for their undergraduate work, as well as other prizes such as the McAbbie Foundation Excellence Scholarship and the Jean-Pitre and Claude Leclerc Award.
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