Hito Steyerl: The City of Broken Windows

Visual artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl (Munich, 1966) is among the most influential figures of our time. Her works are critical reflections on the contemporary digital age and focus on the pervasive role of technology and the circulation of images in the era of globalization. Her installations, bordering from cinema to visual art, are immersive architectural environments that investigate how technology and Artificial Intelligence shape reality and his experience today. This catalog accompanies the exhibition The city of broken windows (2018) at Castello di Rivoli and contains unpublished essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marianna Vecellio, curators of the exhibition, and by the feminist art historian Griselda Pollock. For the occasion the artist's texts, "The city of broken windows" ("The city of broken windows", 2018) and "The city of unbroken windows" ("The city of unbroken windows", 2018), are published for the first time as well as the Italian translation of the important essay "In defense of the poor image," 2009. Richly accompanied by a large section of images from the exhibition, the volume houses a scientific chronology of the artist's exhibitions, screenings and conferences accompanied by an anthology of critical essays and interviews from 1998 to the present, with writings by Anna Altman, Manuela Ammer, Julieta Aranda, Marius Babias, Camila Bechelany, Jochen Becker, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Fred Camper, Lauren Cornell, TJ Demos, Thomas Elsaesser, Harun Farocki, João Fernandes, Alwin Franke, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Marvin Jordan, Ann Kaneko, Heinz Kersten, Adam Kleinman, Brian Kuan Wood, Pablo Lafuente, Gil Leung, Maria Lind, Sven Liitticken, Anja Osswald, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, Bert Rebhandl, Isabella Reicher, David Riff, Daniel Rourke, Berta Sichel, Roberta Smith, Kerstin Stakemeier, Anton Vidokle and Reinhard W. Wolf. Exhibition catalog (Rivoli, 1 November 2018-30 June 2019)

Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 29 x 25 cm 
Pages: 205
ISBN: 9788857240282

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