The purpose of this study is to present the critical and productive capabilities of the audiovisual essay by focusing on its relationship with the computer as a computational medium within the digital media environment. Unlike the traditional ‘essay film,’ the audiovisual essay possesses the critical potential to reveal the performative capabilities of ‘non-human agency’ in a computational environment. The audiovisual essay is a product of ‘co-creation’ between humans and computers, in which the computer functions not as a neutral tool (intermediary) but as an active agent (mediator) that generates and transforms images. This intervention of the non-human agent operates invisibly, akin to what Lisa Parks terms ‘infrastructural concealment’; however, the audiovisual essay exposes and visualizes this hidden process by utilizing the ‘interface’ as the site of communication between humans and computers. The works of Kevin B. Lee criticize the structure of the digital media environment by revealing the intervention of non-human agency through methods such as the use of screen interfaces, the exposure of Google Maps algorithms, and the foregrounding of production software. In conclusion, the digital audiovisual essay is practiced as a form of ideological critique that exposes the technological environment in which critique occurs and the co-creative process with non-human agents.