Hito Steyerl | |
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Born | Hito Steyerl 1 January 1966 |
Nationality | German |
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Notable work | How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational.MOV File (2013) Factory of the Sun (2015) |
Movement | Conceptual Art |
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Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.[1] 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.[1] She has been a professor of Current Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2024.[2] Until 2024, she was 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 and Boaz Levin.[1][3]