Esther Hunziker

Lecturer bachelor
Digital media, digital publishing, Tech Club

 The work of Esther Hunziker emerges from the in-between where fragments collide and dissolve, identities shift and murmur, rewritten from the latent spaces of forgotten data. It is born from tension, the moment when ambiguity unfolds, before it becomes memory — like a glitch that refuses to be ignored. Since 1993, her practice has moved across diverse fields of media art, ranging from early experimental video to deconstructed online narratives, audiovisual animations, interactive installations, and AI-generated images. Failure is a recurring theme in her work: the moment when the machine’s rigidity falters, when its precision unravels into unpredictability, revealing something raw, almost human. In between these tensions the artist creates her own narrations and digital creatures that haunt the fringes of our media world.

Esther Hunziker’s work has been shown internationally at numerous museums, institutions, and festivals. Besides studio residencies across Europe and Asia she has received multiple awards, including the PAX Art Award (2024), the Basel Media Art Prize (2017, 2024) and the Re:humanism Art Prize (shortlist 2025).

esther.hunziker@fhnw.ch
estherhunziker.net