Screen Tests, AI-generated video series, 2025
Screen Tests, AI-generated video series, 2025
Screen Tests, AI-generated video series, 2025
Body Snatchers, AI generated photo, 2025
Squeeze Me, 5 interactive plush dolls with audio box, 2025
Embodiments, AI-generated photo series, 2023/24
Embodiments, AI-generated photo series, 2023/24
Esther Hunziker
Lecturer bachelor
Digital media, digital publishing
Since 1993, Esther Hunziker works across diverse fields of media art — from early experimental videos to deconstructed online narratives, audiovisual animations, interactive installations and AI-generated images.
Emerging from the in-between, her practice explores spaces where fragments collide and dissolve, identities shift and murmur, rewritten from latent spaces of forgotten data. Esther Hunziker’s work is born from tension: construction and deconstruction, noise and clarity, order and its collapse. The moment when ambiguity unfolds, before it becomes memory — like data dreams, charged with both excitement and unease.
In addition to studio residencies in Bratislava, Helsinki, Edinburgh, Chongqing and Berlin, Hunziker has received various awards and prizes, including the Swiss Media Art ‘PAX Art Award’ (2024), the Basel Media Art Prize (2017/24), Werkbeitrag Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt (2004, 1996), Viper Swiss Award (2004), 1. Prize for digital literature from dtv & t-online (2004).