Xavi Hurtado began working with analog video signal at the end of the 80s and later moved to digital techniques. He has used both installation and live action, as well as single-channel video as a form of narration. In general, it can be said that his work investigates transformations in the nature of the visual and its relationships with contemporary technological devices. Sometimes from a poetic exploration close to the essay and others times from a videographic metareferential exploration.
Starting in 2000, he explored the experience of dreaming in cultures called indigenous as a space for research, immersion, transculturation, and interaction with other adjacent visualities, generally located in the Latin American zone (especially Colombia).
He has also worked with 16mm foundfootage film. He currently has a collection of 16mm ephemeral film footage in Bogotá, ranging from the 1940s to the 1970s. It is propaganda material of colonial powers for Latin America, with it he ocassionaly carries out performances in collaboration with musicians and hacked Eiki 16mm projectors.
