Hito Steyerl Archives - Public Seminar

Art & Design

Thinking Technology: New Humans at the New Museum

An exhibition on being human amidst unsettling (and unsettled) technological change

July 15, 2026 • by Yazan Ashqar

The current artificial intelligence boom has birthed an ocean of concerns and considerations about the role of technologies in shaping humanity and its place in the future. The exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future, which inaugurated the New Museum’s recent reopening in late March, makes clear: These questions might ...

Silenus’ Cup, Drained by AI

A Review of The Dead Walk into a Bar

August 30, 2019 • by Kanad Chakrabarti

Set within an ‘orbital facility’ in an un-specified future, the film opens inside a cavernous hall. The scene carries a strange echo for visitors to Steyerl’s show: a musty provincial gallery, sepulchrally lit, clad in dark wood -- that is, much like the Armory, where the entire work was filmed. ...

‘Völkisch’ and ‘Überfremdung’

Different Enemies, Same Fascist Ideology?

July 14, 2017 • by Alexa Lenz

Language not only has the potential to provoke certain images or metaphors, but it also influences ways of thinking and determines the perception of reality. It is an essential element of culture and therefore exercises enormous power to shape every individual, as well as society. Language is therefore not only ...