{"id":1471,"date":"2022-03-10T16:37:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=1471"},"modified":"2023-06-09T18:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:05:16","slug":"currently-off-sight","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/work\/currently-off-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Currently Off-Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l0l7m8cz-46fb8fb0bddf4b85c9a8f549d27cd99e '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>with <a href=\"https:\/\/lottelouise.nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lotte de Jong<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l4eeishd-7e7efd8a1d57cd26936b4da19fd9a063 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>2021-2022<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l0l7mx3l-3b622d1dc3dadae97ab88b216360259b\">\n.avia-image-container.av-l0l7mx3l-3b622d1dc3dadae97ab88b216360259b img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-l0l7mx3l-3b622d1dc3dadae97ab88b216360259b .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-l0l7mx3l-3b622d1dc3dadae97ab88b216360259b av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_two_third '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-1444 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1444 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/02.jpg\" alt='' title='02'  height=\"720\" width=\"1280\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/02.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/02-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-4x3ugf-72ce28500d7e2a3255e17de78769eecb av_two_third  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_image  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  '     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-l0l7o5pu-a27245e54674a75f25319cb67277f6c2 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong><em>Currently Off Sight<\/em><\/strong> is an art-based project that investigates the politics and poetics of visibility on sex webcam platforms. Understanding visibility as a form of governance, this project questions the purpose of making things (hyper)visible at the expense of others, while exploring the many ways in which visibility manifests on the platform. Foregrounding webcammers\u2019 voices, the project is formally presented as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentlyoffsight.online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an audiovisual desktop narrative<\/a> in which the user must decide the aspects they want to unveil\u2014and the ones they prefer not to see.<\/p>\n<p>See the project at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentlyoffsight.online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currentlyoffsight.online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This project was developed in the context of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/excavations.digital\/\">Excavations: Governance Archaeology for the Future of the Internet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l0l7p0g8-8d0d16f91c8c57a30f58a53fc5724cf9\">\n.avia-image-container.av-l0l7p0g8-8d0d16f91c8c57a30f58a53fc5724cf9 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-l0l7p0g8-8d0d16f91c8c57a30f58a53fc5724cf9 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-l0l7p0g8-8d0d16f91c8c57a30f58a53fc5724cf9 av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-1445 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1445 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/03-1024x576.jpg\" alt='' title='03'  height=\"576\" width=\"1024\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/03-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/03-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/03-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/03.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l0l7pqx9-c51b8f5bab7d5984320d4bd16eb5671c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Once peripheral phenomena on the Web, sex webcams gained social and economic relevance with the rise of online platforms, attracting millions of visitors, and becoming an important source of income and intimacy during the pandemic. Sex webcam platforms are often based on an asymmetrical model that allows an invisible audience to observe people in what looks like their domestic environments and decide if they want to pay them\u2014or not. This uneven visibility does not only concern the audience and performers but the platform: while sexcam platforms seem to offer unlimited access to private spaces, they provide little and misleading information about themselves.<\/p>\n<p><i>Currently Off Sight<\/i> is an art-based project that explores the politics and poetics of visibility on sex webcam platforms. Rather than exceptions, <i>Currently Off Sight <\/i>considers sex webcam platforms paradigmatic for the entanglements of work and daily in a discriminatory environment. As such, sexcam platforms become a magnifying lens to investigate what means to be visible and invisible online, querying the different strategies and tactics that modulate this visibility. In a context of constant deplatforming, banning, and discrimination of sex and sex workers,[2] <i>Currently Off Sight<\/i> interrogates visibility as a governance tool.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the asymmetry of power between the sexcam platform and its performers, <i>Currently Off Sight <\/i>resists a binary understanding of what is visible and invisible in that context. Instead of trying to make visible what is hidden, this project questions the purpose of making things (hyper)visible at the expense of other while exploring the many shades between visible and invisible. Foregrounding webcammers\u2019 voices, this project examines the ways in which visibility manifests on the platform, and the various degrees of agency the different actors have there.<\/p>\n<p><i>Currently Off Sight<\/i> interrogates the poetics of visibility on the platform by engaging with the forms that this visibility acquires. The project is divided into chapters, concerning the topics addressed by the webcammers\u2019 testimonies: the circulation of money, the making and presentation of identity, the space of the transmissions, moderation, and surveillance. These topics are formally explored through the media elements present on the platform: audio, video, chat windows, images, and animated gifs. Citing the aesthetics used by the sexcam platform and webcammers\u2019 personal profiles, these elements are placed on a simulated desktop that works as a stage and place of observation. The desktop serves also as a way to acknowledge the presence of the user in this sexcam entanglement. It is the user, the audience, who must decide what they want to know about the functioning of the platform, what they do want to <i>see<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h2>On platform visibility<\/h2>\n<p>One of the main attractions of sexcam platforms is the promise of unlimited access to performers\u2019 private spaces. <i>Currently Off Sight<\/i> challenges this assumption through performers\u2019 testimonies, that speak of intentional decisions on what the audience can and cannot see. Additionally, the project presents videos, images, and virtual tours of professional cam studios that, while inspired by personal spaces, disclose that nobody inhabits them. Contrasting this supposed boundless access, the project shows unsuccessful efforts in trying to find the platforms\u2019 physical locations. Presented as explorations on Google Maps, the audience can share the sense of loss and confusion of these endeavors, where P.O. boxes are the public fa\u00e7ade of lucrative and sophisticated companies.<\/p>\n<p>Monetary exchanges incarnate one of the opaque aspects of the sexcam platform. In the first place, payments are often presented as \u2018voluntary donations\u2019 and disconnected from work compensations. Abstracting, even more, the role that money plays there, sexcam platforms use custom-made currencies. Because major payment processor providers and credit cards companies deny their services to sex workers, these currencies (tokens) can be bought through the same services, but these cannot be used to cash them. This situation creates two parallel payment ecologies, one for the audience and the other for performers, made of different payment services, policies, and fees. For example, a redeemed token will be worth half of its initial value. Tokens\u2019 obscure management contrasts with the number of visual and aural ways in which they are presented on the sexcam platform.<\/p>\n<p>While <i>Currently Off Sight <\/i>is an artistic exploration of some of the many ways in which visibility is experienced on a sexcam platform, it addresses an urgent and widespread issue. In today&#8217;s Internet context, a few powerful companies have control over who has and who does not have the right to be visible. The growing stigmatization of sex workers, as current events demonstrate, creates discriminatory situations with concrete consequences for individuals and communities, affecting their livelihood and rights of expression. Under the conviction that an Internet safe for sex workers is a safer Internet for everyone, <i>Currently Off Sight <\/i>invites a reflection on the present and the future of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Blunt and Stardust, \u201cAutomating Whorephobia\u201d; Are and Paasonen, \u201cSex in the Shadows of Celebrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-69363j-a3a4f75306fe86e73f9ad209bc6888e9 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-3pw7db-15afe81987891342959d229537e48dd7 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Related updates and spin-offs<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  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