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Artist Research: Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl is a German filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. She was born in 1966 in Munich. She earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is currently a Professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts. Steyerl pushes the boundaries of video art while focusing on topics such as militarization, surveillance, and the effect of media on our lives.

I really enjoyed her video installation Factory of the Sun. Viewers sit on lawn chairs while watching a video on a large screen in a room that looks like something out of Tron. "Factory of the Sun uses the motifs of light and acceleration to explore what possibilities are still available for collective resistance when surveillance has become a mundane part of an increasingly virtual world. Factory of the Sun tells the surreal story of workers whose forced moves in a motion capture studio are turned into artificial sunshine."

https://vimeo.com/182657047


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