Hito Steyerl

Directing

Birthday	Jan 1, 1966 (59 years old)
Place of birth	Munich, Germany
Gender	Female

Hito Steyerl (born 1966 in Munich) is a German filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann, Maximilian Schmoetzer, and Boaz Levin.