Visual artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl (Munich, 1966) is one of the most influential cultural figures of our time.
Steyerl’s
works are critical reflections on the digital and contemporary age and
focus on the pervasive role of technology and the circulation of images
in the globalized world. Her installations, which encompass film and
visual
art, are immersive architectural environments that seek to
establish the way in which technology and Artificial Intelligence shape
reality and how it is experienced.
This catalogue accompanies the
exhibition The City of Broken Windows at Castello di Rivoli and features
previously unpublished essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and
Marianna Vecellio, the exhibition’s curators, and by
the feminist art
historian Griselda Pollock. It also contains two new texts by the
artist titled The City of Broken Windows (2018) and The City of Unbroken
Windows (2018), published here for the first time, and her important
essay In
Defense of the Poor Image (2009). Richly complemented by an
extensive selection of images from the exhibition, the book includes an
exhaustive scholarly chronology of the artist’s exhibitions, screenings
and lectures and an anthology
of critical essays and interviews from 1998 to the present.