I Will Survive
Hito Steyerl
Spector Books
English and German
With texts by Nora M. Alter, Karen Archey, Teresa Castro, Alexandra Delage, Florian Ebner, Thomas Elsaesser, Ayham Ghraowi, Tom Holert, Doris Krystof, Marcella Lista, Vanessa Joan Müller, Florentine Muhry, Mark Terkessidis, Brian Kuan Wood, and a lecture by Hito Steyerl and Trevor Paglen.
Softcover
488 pages
200 x 285 mm
2020
ISBN 9783959053921
The positions adopted by Hito Steyerl in her works and texts are of key importance in any consideration of the contemporary role that art and the museum play in society. They are also crucial to experimental forays into different forms of media presentation and to the critical examination of artificial intelligence and its uses. Over the past thirty years, the artist has been tracking the way camera images have mutated, from the analogue image and its manifold possibilities for montage to the fluidity of the split digital image and the implications this then had for the representation of wars, genocides, and capital flows. “We are no longer dealing with the virtual but with a confusing and possibly alien concreteness that we are only beginning to understand,” writes Brian Kuan Wood of the digital visual worlds that the artist presents.
The book was published in conjunction with Hito Steyerl’s survey show, which took place in autumn 2020 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf. The cooperative project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/critical-theory/products/i-will-survive-hito-steyerl)
About the Artist
Hito Steyerl is a German filmmaker and artist whose work explores the complexities of the digital world, art, capitalism and the implications of Artificial Intelligence for society.
hitosteyerl.vanabbe.nl
(source: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/hito-steyerl-power-plants/)
About the Publisher
Spector’s publishing practice is settled squarely in the intersection of art, theory, and design. Based in Leipzig Germany, our publishing house explores the possibilities offered by an active exchange between all parties involved in the book production process: artists, authors, book designers, lithographers, printers and bookbinders. The book as medium is turned into a stage, a site of encounter for productive exchange. Finding innovative approaches to the medium today calls for a well considered interplay between the content, design, and materiality of a book.
spectorbooks.com
(source: https://spectorbooks.com/about)
