Through her writing practice, films, and performative lectures, Hito Steyerl considers the status of the image in an increasingly global and technological world. Both in their artistic as well as theoretical production, Rosler and Steyerl reflect the connection between our perception of social reality and the audiovisual media that are essential for their mediation. “I would like to address the elephant in the room,” The Often referred to as an artist-theorist, Steyerl has a professorship at Berlin’s University of the Arts, but she is quick to point out that she’s no academic: “I don’t even have a high school degree. Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and cultural critic who roots her investigative practice in the proliferation of digital images and their large-scale implications. In 1998, her childhood friend Andrea Woolf was killed fighting for the PKK, a paramilitary group seeking an independent homeland for Kurds in Turkey. The events surrounding her death inspired a number of Steyerl’s earlier works.

Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War It will be presented, instead, at the Venice Biennale, which means she is unable to go into the precise details. But what interests my dining companion, the German artist Born in Munich in 1966, Steyerl may not be an artist whose name trips off British tongues, but she is held in extraordinary regard within the art world. Some of them had crossed the city on the boots of soldiers, refugees, or as castaway trash on corporate platforms, via packaging material from imported goods, or hay transported on wagons by the army for horses.”The Sackler Gallery’s association with the family of the same name, some members of which are facing lawsuits for their alleged role in A few days after our interview, at the opening of Power Plants, Steyerl went further. Rosler and Steyerl are exhibiting together for the first time - both are also the first comprehensive show in Switzerland. Politically, however, she is still, and socially-promoting power also resides in her, especially when she invokes her freedom and her obstinacy.Art as radar acts as “an early alarm system,” as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots of time to prepare to cope with them.*1.

Postgraduate Studies in Philosophy, Academy of Fine Arts, ViennaHito Steyerl: This is the Future, Art Gallery of Ontario, TorontoHito Steyerl: Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2019, Akademie der Künste, BerlinHito Steyerl: The City of Broken Windows, Castello di Rivoli, TurinMartha Rosler & Hito Steyerl: War Games, Kunstmuseum, BaselHito Steyerl: Liquidity Inc., The Institute of Contemporary Art, BostonHito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Number Thirteen: Factory of the Sun, Julia Stoschek Collection, DüsseldorfDuty-Free Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, MadridConcentrations 59: Mirror Stage-Visualizing the Self After the Internet, Dallas Museum of ArtHito Steyerl, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Circulacionismo, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico CityJunktime, Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Hito Steyerl: Guards, Museum of Contemporary Art San DiegoAdorno’s Grey, Audain Gallery, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, VancouverThe Kiss, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, CopenhagenHito Steyerl: Journal No. Its greatest victim is reality itself....Castello di Rivoli launches a symposium on Artificial Intelligence with the participation of theorists, privacy and data management experts, consultants in the field of architecture and security development systems, chosen with artist Hito Steyerl. Together with other installations, On June 20, 2017, the BBC evening news opener broke down. These were the words of media theorist Marshall McLuhan, writing in Understanding Media with sharp insight in the 1960s and predicting the social revolution that new technology would bring. Beginning with the premise that ‘’’power’’ is the necessary condition for any digital technology’, Steyerl considers the multiple meanings of the word, including electrical currents, the ecological powers of plants or natural elements, and the complex networks of authority that shape our environments. Steyerl’s new project offers an intriguing perspective on how the digital contemporary imagination shapes our emotions and experience of reality.The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel | Present presents works by Martha Rosler (Brooklyn, NY) and Hito Steyerl (Berlin).She puts both early and current works into a dialogue conceived jointly with the artists.

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