Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl
Hito Steyerl
	Steyerl in 2019
Born	Hito Steyerl; 1 January 1966; Munich, West Germany ; (now Germany)
Alma mater	Japan Institute of the Moving Image; University of Television and Film Munich; Academy of Fine Arts Vienna;
Known for	Filmmaker; visual artist; writer;
Notable work	How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational.MOV File (2013); Factory of the Sun (2015);
Movement	Conceptual Art
Awards	Yanghyun Prize; Käthe Kollwitz Prize;

Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) 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.

She has been a professor of Current Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2024. Until 2024, she was 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.