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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev,Marianna Vecellio
The works by visual artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl (Munich, 1966), one of the most influential cultural figures of our time.
Steyerl’s works are critical reflections on the digital and…
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Hito Steyerl
A massive, long-overdue retrospective on the multimedia image critique of Hito Steyerl, influential artist and author of Duty-Free Art and The Wretched of the Screen
Over the past 30 years…
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What is the future of the image in the age of climate change and artificial technology? - from the highly acclaimed video artist and author of Duty Free Art
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What is the function of art in the era of digital gloablisation?
Highlighting Hito Steyerl’s large-scale and iconic multi-media works from the past 15 years, this book delves into the artist’s investigations of how the internet and new technologies impact our lives.
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Founded in 1984, Parkett has long been an important source of literature on international contemporary art. Each biannual issue is a collaboration with four artists, in which their work is…
Clemens Apprich,Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,Florian Cramer,Hito Steyerl
Bringing together media thinkers and artists from theUnited States and Germany, this volume asks the urgent questions: How can wediscriminate without being discriminatory? How can we filter information out ofdata…
Hito Steyerl,Stefan Nowotny,Simon Sheikh
‘Institutional critique’ is best known through the critical practice that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by artists who presented radical challenges to the museum and gallery system…
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Brian Kuan Wood,Hito Steyerl,Anton Vidokle,Elena Shaposhnikova,Arseny Zhilyaev
Collection of texts partly published previously.
Since the turn of the millennium, artists have been writing, and circulating their writing, like never before. The seventy-five texts gathered here–essays, criticism, manifestos, fiction, diaries, scripts, blog posts, and…
A multifaceted response to issues concerning personal privacy and government power by writers, artists, and others
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Reflections on the art and process of translation
An investigation into the compelling phenomenon of translation, understood here as a creative process through which something new is always created. Including…
Giorgio Agamben,Ariella Azoulay,Roland Barthes,Georges Didi-Huberman,Harun Farocki
Proposing an alternative history of the optical image, Picture Industry explores the materiality of images and the technologies that govern their reception.
Spanning from the late 19th century to the…
Barnabas Bencsik,Maria Berrios,Daniel Birnbaum,Katie Kitamura
Swedish artist OEyvind Fahlstroem (1928-76) was one of the 20th century’s most innovative, versatile and multidimensional artists. Rather than developing a single characteristic style, he worked with a variety of…
