Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl
Steyerl in 2019
Born
Hito Steyerl

(1966-01-01) 1 January 1966 (age 58)
Munich, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Known for
  • Filmmaker
  • visual artist
  • writer
Notable workHow Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational.MOV File (2013)
Factory of the Sun (2015)
MovementConceptual Art
Awards

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 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 and Boaz Levin.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c "Hito Steyerl", e-flux, Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Research Center for Proxy Politics". rcpp.lensbased.net. Retrieved 2016-12-29.