Hito Steyerl: The City of Broken Windows
Description
German artist, filmmaker and theorist Hito Steyerl (born 1966) has emerged as one of the most influential cultural figures of our time. She has published extensively, with essays such as "In Defense of the Poor Image" reaching "instant classic" status and books such as The Wretched of the Screen and Duty Free Art cementing her place in art-world discourse. And yet Steyerl's art has not received the monographic treatment, until now.
The City of Broken Windows, published to accompany a new work of the same name at Castello di Rivoli, documents Steyerl's installation exploring the process of teaching artificial intelligence how to recognize the sound of breaking windows. Using screens, windows, crystals and sound, Steyerl explores how AI affects the urban environment. The book features new essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marianna Vecellio, Griselda Pollock and the artist herself, alongside images and a chronology of the artist's exhibitions and lectures. Also included is an anthology of essays and interviews from 1998 to the present.Product Details
Price
$50.00
$46.00
Publisher
Skira
Publish Date
October 08, 2019
Pages
212
Dimensions
9.7 X 11.2 X 0.8 inches | 3.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9788857240299
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About the Author
Director and film essayist Harun Farocki has made over 70 films, including Videograms of a Revolution and Images of the World and the Inscription of War.
T. J. Demos is an Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at University College London.
Thomas Elsaesser is a director at the Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, Germany, and a professor for experimental physics at Humboldt University, Berlin. He received a Dr. rer. nat. degree from the Technical University of Munich in 1986 and worked there as a research associate until 1993. He spent a postdoc period at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, in 1990 and joined the newly established Max-Born-Institute in 1993. Thomas is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America and has received numerous scientific awards.
