Hito Steyerl
Birthday: 1966-01-01
Place of Birth: Munich, Germany
Biography: Hito Steyerl (born 1966 in Munich) is a German filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann, Maximilian Schmoetzer, and Boaz Levin.
Movies
Strike II
In Strike II, the artist and her daughter hit the camera with a pair of hammers, attacking image-mak...
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Lovely Andrea
If all pictures became current, in that they pass by and in doing so, are connectable with one anoth...
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The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space
An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voic...
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