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“I think it’s important to keep up with the latest consumer technology. [It] expresses some kind of technological-social-political condition or contraction of desires and misunderstandings…to keep up with that is to keep up with the nexus…the complication around it.”—Hito Steyerl

Today’s video, from Tate Modern, is an introduction to what is arguably Hito Steyerl’s best-known work, How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013), a video installation and homage to a 1970s Monty Python sketch. The film is a dryly comic meditation on technology and visibility in the twenty-first century (“How to be Invisible: Living in a gated community…being a superhero…being female and over fifty”).

Hito Steyerl is one of the most renowned video and multimedia artists working today, having recently been awarded the 2019 Käthe Kollwitz Prize and appearing in the top ten of ArtReview’s Power 100 for the last three years running. A filmmaker, visual artist, and writer, Steyerl’s work examines technology, media, and the circulation of images.

Museums

Sponsor
8:04

MUSEUMS: Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine

5:24

MUSEUMS: For Walter J. Hood, Architecture Means Power

4:28

MUSEUMS: Fabric Workshop and Museum Explores Clay and Fabric

8:08

MUSEUMS: Julie Mehretu Behind-the-Scenes With Checkerboard Films

2:09

MUSEUMS: Alice Neel Paints Life “Hot off the Griddle”

Galleries

5:24

GALLERIES: Alec Soth Takes the Measure of Photography

6:09

GALLERIES: Pablo Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing

3:41

GALLERIES: For Landon Metz, Failure is an Option

4:17

GALLERIES: Jacob El Hanani Is a Line-Maker

1:09:20

LONGFORM: Sheila Hicks Reflects From Home in Paris

Studios

1:53

VAULT: Philip Guston Biopic Trailer (1981)

3:32

STUDIOS: Joep van Lieshout on Going Beyond Beautiful Design

5:02

STUDIOS: Peter Beard: “Nature is the best thing we’ve got”

10:34

STUDIOS: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Material Instinct (2000)

3:00

STUDIOS: Billy Childish Gets Out of the Way of the Picture

Community

36:17

PODCAST: ‘Barbara London Calling’ Launches Season 2

Sponsor
47:07

LONGFORM: Hughie O’Donoghue in Conversation with Charles Saumarez Smith

3:31

COMMUNITY: William Eric Brown Applies New Processes to Old

58:08

PODCAST: Heidi Zuckerman in Conversation with Adam Pendleton

22:57

LONGFORM: ‘To Cast Too Bold a Shadow’ Exhibition Walkthrough

Market

3:39

MARKET: For Kimsooja, Immaterial Art Achieves Memory

15:35

MARKET: How Christie’s and Sotheby’s Dominate the Art Market

3:00

MARKET: Ghada Amer on Being a Woman Artist

4:37

MARKET: Catherine Petitgas is an Enabler

2:34

MARKET: Kunsthalle Basel Is of Its Time