Hito Steyerl is Professor of Experimental Film and Video at Berlin University
of the Arts. She studied cinematography and documentary filmmaking in Tokyo and Munich and holds a PhD in Philosophy from
the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Her principal topics of interest are media, technology and the global circulation of
images. Her texts, performances and essayistic documentary films are concerned with postcolonial critique and feminist logics
of representation. Her works are usually a product of both visual art and film, theory and praxis. Many of them have been
presented at the Venice Biennale, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among
others. She has also taught at the Center for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College in London and was visiting professor
at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen and the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.
This event is part of the series Decolonizing
Technology in cooperation with the Department of Media Theory of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Interview:
https://ail.angewandte.at/explore/in-conversation-with-clemens-apprich