Hito Steyerl

1 month ago | artnews.com | Dan Nadel |Hito Steyerl

Doom at the Park Avenue Armory The stately and enormous drill hall of New York’s Park Avenue Armory will host the largest-yet performance event by Anne Imhof, who won the Golden Lion for her bracing work Faust in the German Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Jan 28, 2024 | msn.com | Hito Steyerl

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Dec 14, 2023 | newleftreview.org | Hito Steyerl

Over the past few years, millions of people, mostly in the Global South, have accepted an enticing offer: the promise of free cryptocurrency—25 ethereum-based Worldcoins, to be airdropped into a Worldcoin Wallet app—in exchange for having their irises scanned by a fancy silver orb.

Apr 28, 2023 | newleftreview.org | Hito Steyerl

Awhile ago, science-fiction writer Ted Chiang described Chatgpt’s text output as a ‘blurry jpeg of all the text in the web’—or: as a semantic ‘poor image’.footnote1 But the blurry output generated by machine-learning networks has an additional historical dimension: statistics. Visuals created by ml tools are statistical renderings, rather than images of actually existing objects. They shift the focus from photographic indexicality to stochastic discrimination.