Hito Steyerl is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin.
Steyerl in 2019
Installation view of Hell Yeah We Fuck Die, 2016
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is a public art school in Vienna, Austria.
Life drawing room at the Vienna academy, Martin Ferdinand Quadal, 1787
Main entrance on Schillerplatz
Fragment of the main building of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Anatomical room of the Akademie