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Lotte Louise De Jong, Antonia Hernández

currently_off_sight

Doc. expérimental | mov | couleur | 10:58 | Pays-Bas | 2022

Currently_off_sight investigates visibility on sex webcam platforms through the testimonies of webcam performers. Despite the asymmetry of power between them and the sexcam platform, currently_off_sight resists a binary understanding of what is and what is not visible in that context. In this way, the project questions the purpose of rendering things (hyper)visible at the expense of others while exploring the many shades of online perception. Foregrounding webcammers’ voices, currently_off_sight examines how visibility manifests on the platform, and the various degrees of agency the different actors have there. Both in its web and video versions, the project is divided into chapters concerning the different topics addressed by the webcammers. Quoting the aesthetics used in the camming environment, these elements are placed on a simulated desktop that works as a stage and place of observation, while it also acknowledges the presence of a user in this entanglement.

Lotte Louise de Jong is a media artist from the Netherlands with a background in filmmaking. Her work is research-based and ranges from physical, digital and online installations to more traditional forms of narrative. Her practice addresses how we, as a society, view and shape our identity through mediated spaces like the digital world. The internet as a space for exploring intimacy has been the main focus of her past projects. She obtained a master’s degree in Fine Art and Design at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2019. In 2020 she received an emerging artist grant from the Mondriaan Fonds. Antonia Hernández is a writer, designer, and media artist whose work explores infrastructural relations of intimacy, combining theoretical investigation with arts-based practices to understand the fleshy, living, and domestic aspects of media. She has presented her work and research-creation methodologies widely at conferences, exhibitions, and in artist talks, and is preparing a book on the role of fictional currencies in sexcam platforms.