Esther Hunziker on www.collective-view.ch

LOOP – 1.10.2013 – 24.11.2013

In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages, that are little miracles of self-reference.
(Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, 2008)
With her work Loop on www.collective-view.ch Esther Hunziker researches the webcam’s function as a surveillance medium and an instrument for control freaks. To this end she implements a feedback configuration in which the webcam becomes an observer of itself. The webcam, as the symptom of a surveillance deployment which is chronically aligned to turning its gaze outwards, is therewith robbed of its actual function. This reversal provides insights into the hidden world of digital real-time images.
A scholarly article by Yvonne Volkart on the work of the artist will be published October 2013.