Hito Steyerl

News

Lectures

Talk · 2026

Friction

re:publica 26, Berlin

Conversation

Art, Automation and Authoritarianism

Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella

Keynote · Jan 2026

Crafting Data: Material Practices in Art and AI

Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Lecture

Art in the Age of Authoritarian Chatbots

Agora — Technologies of Consciousness

Talk · 2025

Art in The Age of Authoritarian Chatbots

The Tehran Summit

Lecture

Bubble Vision

Video lecture

Lecture

The Language of Broken Glass

Video lecture

Lecture

Why Games? Can People Change?

Video lecture

Lecture

The Terror of Total Dasein

Video lecture

Lecture

I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production

Video lecture

Lecture

Live from the Van Abbemuseum

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Keynote

Keynote Presentation

SVA MFA Photo Video

Conversation

Hito Steyerl × Trevor Paglen: Universal/Remote

National Art Center, Tokyo

Artist Talk

Artist Talk

Kunstsammlung NRW

Panel · DLD 18

Tech Colonialism: Too Much World

with H. U. Obrist & E. Morozov

Lecture

Avant Museology

Video lecture

Conversation

What is Contemporary?

Video conversation

Talk · 2013

89plus Marathon

Serpentine Galleries

Panel

Photography and Political Agency?

The Photographic Universe

Artist Talk

Liam Gillick & Hito Steyerl

Artist talk

Lecture · 2010

In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment

Video lecture

New on Carrier Bag

A multipolar Art World?

Joshua Citarella

2025

Hilbert Hotels and Ion Holes. How to make physics sensible

Tommaso Calarco, Evelina + Dmitry Domnitch / Gelfand & Boris Čučković Berger

2026

Quantum for All? Questions of Access

Günseli Yalcinkaya, Elham Kashefi, Armin Linke & Hito Steyerl

2026

Space Time Foam. On spatial strategies.

Tamiko Thiel, Tomás Saraceno, Carly Whitefield & Günseli Yalcinkaya

2026

Quantum Filters for Foundation AI models

Hito Steyerl & Volker Möllenhoff

2026

Quantum Aesthetics

Francis Hunger

2026

Paradoxical Unfoldings

Libby Heaney

2026

Undulatory and corpuscular motions

Hito Steyerl

2026

The entangled entrepreneur. On the material implications of quantum tech business ideologies

Dietmar Dath

2026

Fortinbras in Year Zero — Art beyond growth

Janos Sugar

2026

The Work of Delay: Museums as Instruments for Seeing

Daniel Muzyczuk

2026

Convergence — Notes from Inside the Singularity

Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo

2026

Post-AI, Quantum and Multipolar Art World

Günseli Yalcinkaya

2026

I Like the Earth and the World Deports Me — A Visa for Entrancement

Thotti

2026

World Baby — Revisiting the Protocols of Multiculturalism in the Empire of Difference

Quinn Slobodian

2026

Exiting the Photographic Universe

Fred Ritchin & Hito Steyerl

2026

Amplifying the Weak Signal

Daniel Muzyczuk & Francis Hunger

2026

World Baby at the End of History

Quinn Slobodian & Hito Steyerl

2026

Sympathetic Gate Keepers of a Hellish Game

Thotti & Hito Steyerl

2026

Convergence and AI

Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks & Hito Steyerl

2026

AI, PR Spin, and Social Disconnect

Reena Devi & Hito Steyerl

2026

Dramaturgy of Change — Hungary’s Art Scene

Janos Sugar & Francis Hunger

2026

Principles for Critical Research and Artistic Practice

Hito Steyerl, Francis Hunger et al.

2026

Prompted Monads — Art, AI, and the Fantasy of Totality

Boris Čučković Berger

2026

Vibe coding the future

Simon Denny

2026

Vectofascism — Part II: Vectopolitics

Gregory Chatonsky

2026

Vectofascism — Part I: Vectoaesthetics

Gregory Chatonsky

2026

Conferences & Talks

Nov 2026

AI and Migration — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Lecture

Oct 2026

In conversation with Tom Keenan — Columbia University, New York Conversation

Oct 2026

Strange Rules — Palazzo Diedo, Venice — Berggruen Arts & Culture Lecture

Oct 2026

Arte y sentido tras la llegada de la IA — Encuentros de Pamplona, Baluarte Sala Cámara — with Lisa Tan Interview

Sep 2026

Opening Keynote — Ars Electronica, Ursulinenhof, Linz Keynote

Sep 2026

Prix Ars Electronica Award Ceremony — Design Center Linz Award Ceremony

Sep 2026

Soul or Arsenal? — Ars Electronica, Ursulinenhof, Linz — with Francesca Bria & Simon Denny Panel

Sep 2026

Mechanical Kurds — Ars Electronica, Ursulinenhof, Linz Performance Lecture

Sep 2026

Another battle for Kordun — ISSA Mountain School Talk

Sep 2026

AI: Artist Included — Städel Museum, Frankfurt — Städel KI-Festival Artist Lecture

May 2026

New Museum × Metrograph: La Jetée + How Not to Be Seen — Metrograph, New York Screening + Intro

May 2026

Pedagogy of Hope — Radio GAMeC, Bergamo — Venice Biennale side event Radio

May 2026

re:publica 26 — Art in the Age of Generative AI — STATION Berlin Keynote

Apr 2026

After the Crash — with Cécile Wajsbrot — Akademie der Künste, Berlin Conversation

2026

Greater Good Gathering 3.0 — Conference program Conference

2026

Art Center Encounters — Screening & Talk — Villa Arson, Nice Screening + Talk

Feb 2026

Leak: The Other Side of the Pipeline — Book Launch — CAC, Vilnius Book Launch

Jan 2026

Screening + Talk — Cinema Godard, Milano Screening

Jan 2026

Crafting Data: Material Practices in Art and AI — Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna Conference

Nov 2025

Foco Hito Steyerl — Masterclass — Márgenes Festival / Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid Masterclass

Nov 2025

Exocapitalism — Disintegrator Podcast, with Simon Denny Podcast

Nov 2025

Festival Panoràmic — KBr Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona Lecture

Oct 2025

Sensing Quantum Symposium — LAS Art Foundation, Berlin Symposium

Oct 2025

Unsettling Intelligences — Stony Brook University, New York Symposium

Oct 2025

Everything is possible (the bad news) — ZHdK, Zurich Talk

Sep 2025

AI Cultural Sabotage #3 — gnration, Braga Talk

Aug 2025

If AI Is the Answer, What Is the Question? — Locarno Film Festival Talk

Jun 2025

Artist Talk with Bärbel Vischer — MAK Museum, Vienna Artist Talk

Jun 2025

Creative Authorship in the Era of Generative AI — Digital Art Mile, Basel Panel

Jun 2025

Art in the Age of Average — AdbK Munich Conference

May 2025

Art in The Age of Authoritarian Chatbots — The Tehran Summit Talk

May 2025

Medium Hot — Book Launch — Tate Modern, London In Conversation

Apr 2025

Writing in the Future — HFBK Hamburg Symposium

Apr 2025

Conférence with Kate Crawford & Agnieszka Kurant — Jeu de Paume, Paris Conference

Apr 2025

Artist Talk — Yale School of Art, New Haven Artist Talk

Mar 2025

Praxis heute — Erich Fromm Prize Lecture, Stuttgart Lecture

Recent Texts

纪录公社 Jilu Commune · Aug 2026

采访黑特·史德耶尔：当摄影机退场，我们如何言说真实？

Palabra Pública, U. de Chile · Apr 2026

“Los beneficios del futuro están reservados para quienes pueden pagarlos”

Burlington Contemporary · 2025

Knuckleporn or Phocomelia: GenAI’s Dialectics of Enlightenment

Erich Fromm Prize Lecture · Mar 2025

Praxis heute

New Left Review 140/141 · 2023

Mean Images

New Left Review 144 · 2023

Common Sensing?

Spike Art Magazine · 2025

“Who Prompted All This Shit?”

Cura Magazine · Issue 45

In Conversation with Simon Denny

Recent & Current Exhibitions

Publications

Publication · 2025

Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat

Verso Books

DE German

Publication · 2025

Medium Hot: Bilder in Zeiten der Hitze

Diaphanes

ES Spanish

Publication · 2025

Medios Calientes

Caja Negra

IT Italian

Publication · 2025

Medium Hot: Intelligenza artificiale e immagini ai tempi del riscaldamento globale

Timeo

Publication · 2025

Edition 46 — Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nov 2025

Publication · 2017

Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

Verso Books

DE German

Publication · 2018

Duty Free Art

Diaphanes

ES Spanish

Publication · 2018

Arte Duty Free

Caja Negra

IT Italian

Publication · 2018

Duty Free Art

Johan & Levi

DA Danish

Publication · 2020

Toldfri kunst

Informations Forlag

FR French

Publication · 2021

De l'art en duty free

Les presses du réel

KO Korean

Publication · 2021

면세 미술

Workroom Press

JA Japanese

Publication · 2021

デューティーフリー・アート

Firumuātosha

CS Czech

Publication · 2023

Umění bez daně

VVP AVU

Publication · 2012

The Wretched of the Screen

Sternberg Press / e-flux journal

ES Spanish

Publication · 2014

Los condenados de la pantalla

Caja Negra

KO Korean

Publication · 2016

스크린의 추방자들

Workroom Press

EL Greek

Publication · 2018

Της οθόνης οι κολασμένες

Topovoros

ZH Chinese

Publication · 2024

屏幕上的受苦者

Shanghai People's Publishing House

Publication · 2008

Die Farbe der Wahrheit: Dokumentarismen im Kunstfeld

Turia + Kant

KO Korean

Publication · 2019

진실의 색

Workroom Press

Publication · 2011

A Magical Imitation of Reality

with Harun Farocki · Kaleidoscope Press

About

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer based in Berlin. Her work addresses media, technology, and the global circulation of images through video installations, digital environments, and writing. She is Professor for Emergent Digital Media at Munich Art Academy. Her research platform at AdbK Munich, run with Francis Hunger, is at www.carrier-bag.net. She is represented by Esther Schipper (Berlin) and Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York).