While I was at film school, or even earlier, maybe the late 1980s, the market for independent-film production collapsed, and existing funding for long-form documentaries just stopped. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
Inequality is pervasive but invisible. It's hard to see. You need a sort of tool to make it visible. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
Most of my work has always been online. But I try not to share it on commercial or corporate platforms, so you will find… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
I don't think the Internet or a big digital corporation will manage to capture all of human relations. It's too boring. After a while,… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
I'm trying to find ways to transform parts of the art world into something more productive or more satisfying. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
We need, let's say, municipal digital platforms, for teaching, for schooling, for education, but also, of course, for the arts. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
If you want to make a difference with art, which is a motive I perceive as questionable, then the single most stupid approach would… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in exploring technique in relation to technology. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
As a dialectical materialist, I do not believe that social contradictions can be solved individually. On the other hand, if you give up on… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs, parallel pop-up… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
I like the combination of two different ideas that connect at an unexpected level. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
I never got into being an artist. For me, it's always more research, storytelling, maybe technological experimental. It's more like a laboratory setting. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
