作者简介

Hito Steyerl is one of the leading artists working in video today. Her work explores the divisions between art, philosophy, and politics. She has had solo exhibitions at, among others, MOCA, LA; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the ICA, London. She has participated in the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Documenta, and Manifesta. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern. She is the author of The Wretched of the Screen and writes in numerous periodicals. She is currently a Professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts.

内容简介

What is the function of art in the era of digital gloablisation?

How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audience is pumped for tweets to a future of “neurocurating,” in which paintings surveil their audience via facial recognition and eye tracking to assess their popularity and to scan for suspicious activity.

In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age.

What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring subjects as diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of freeports, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.


Hito Steyerl is one of the leading artists working in video today. Her work explores the divisions between art, philosophy, and politics. She has had solo exhibitions at, among others, MOCA, LA; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the ICA, London. She has participated in the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Documenta, and Manifesta. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Ta...

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豆瓣评论

  • 2.5-2.11 好看,15篇文章的集合,不是学术八股论文,而是杂志上那种文章。作者非常聪明,批判理论和哲学的功底很深,但是从视觉艺术的角度出发来谈现在的问题,主要关注互联网,信息时代下艺术的问题,人的问题(也就是政治社会问题)。也有对当代艺术市场的严厉的批评,读起来很过瘾。虽然没有给出解决方案,但这种批评就是好的,文章也写得漂亮。02-12
  • lyou024
    主要是以往演讲的文字整理,搭配对应的演讲视频和ppt更容易理解。03-09
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    缪斯,读的很爽,学术功底很强也很当代,文本本身也是Steyerl的艺术吧03-23
  • Nomis
    Hito Steyerl可以说是quintessential german media theorist了12-01
  • 汤井
    机构批判教学,依旧内容很跳但又衔接地很丝滑,我感觉hito的文章的水平>影像>其他形式的艺术02-28

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