Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl is Professor for Experimental Film and Video at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics. Her work combines documentary and experimental approaches to examine media, technology, and the global circulation of images through the lenses of postcolonial criticism and feminist theory.

Research interests include:

• The politics of images in digital capitalism
• Postcolonial and feminist critique of representation
• Documentary practices in contemporary art
• Theories of the digital image
• Proxy politics and networked culture

Steyerl's films, installations, and writings have been exhibited internationally at major institutions including the Venice Biennale, Museum of Modern Art New York, and Documenta.