BIOGRAPHY
Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her prolific filmmaking and writing occupies a position between the fields of art, philosophy and politics. Steyerl’s writing is thematically unified around a deep exploration of late capitalism’s social, cultural and financial imaginaries. Her films and lectures have increasingly addressed the presentational context of art. Steyerl has exhibited widely, most recently in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2022. Her writing has circulated extensively through publication in both academic and art journals.
Steyerl studied Documentary Film Directing at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and at the HFF – University of Television and Film in Munich. She subsequently studied Philosophy at the Academy of the Arts in Vienna, where she received her doctorate. She is Professor for Experimental Film and Video at the UdK – University of the Arts, Berlin, where she founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin. Steyerl lives and works in Berlin.
COURSES TAUGHT
Hito Steyerl was be on campus from November 27 to December 1. She gave a public lecture on Nov. 30 at the Manetti Shrem Museum. Steyerl led a seminar on generative artificial intelligence for undergraduate and graduate students on December 1.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Hito Steyerl will gace a public lecture on Thursday, November 30 from 4:30-6 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum. The talk was not recorded.
Banner photo credit: Hito Steyerl, How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013 HD video, single screen in architectural environment 15 minutes, 52 seconds. Image CC 4.0 Hito Steyerl. Image courtesy of the artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul