Ars Electronica Festival · 2026
Endangered Gestures
by Bruce Eesly
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2026
“Endangered Gestures” by Bruce Eesly received a Honorary Mention in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2026.
Endangered Gestures is a short film showing hand gestures for concepts currently under threat by authoritarian shifts around the world. Pairing censored words with gestures proposed by AI, the results sit somewhere between speculative sign language and technical error.
About Bruce Eesly
Bruce Eesly (DE) is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Working with photography, archives, and generative imaging technologies, he examines how photographic images, classification systems, and technological infrastructures shape our understanding of…
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