Metroactive » Hito Steyerl https://activate.metroactive.com Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Hito Steyerl + Trevor Paglen https://activate.metroactive.com/2021/10/hito-steyerl-trevor-paglen/ https://activate.metroactive.com/2021/10/hito-steyerl-trevor-paglen/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:57:00 +0000 https://activate.metroactive.com/?p=126851
German multimedia artist Hito Steyerl’s latest exhibition, Factory of the Sun, debuted back in August at the San Jose Museum of Art, and has wowed art lovers with a distinct vision of techno-political dystopian threat and utopian potential. Next month, the museum will debut Trevor Paglen’s latest experiment in disruptive installation art…]]>

German multimedia artist Hito Steyerl’s latest exhibition, Factory of the Sun, debuted back in August at the San Jose Museum of Art, and has wowed art lovers with a distinct vision of techno-political dystopian threat and utopian potential. Next month, the museum will debut Trevor Paglen’s latest experiment in disruptive installation art with a new sound-based commission, playing a collage of information from the museum’s clock tower for 45 seconds several times a day, like a digital church bell. The two artists hold a riveting conversation as a virtual panel hosted by SJMA.


Hito Steyerl + Trevor Paglen
Tue, 12pm, Free
Online Event

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Donna Haraway’s 1985 piece “A Cyborg Manifesto” inspired a generation of artists and theorists to dissect the relationships between technology, labor, gender and the human body. 30 years later, filmmaker Hito Steyerl titled her video installation after a quote from the text: “machines made of pure sunlight.” 2015’s surreal and expansive Factory…]]>

Donna Haraway’s 1985 piece “A Cyborg Manifesto” inspired a generation of artists and theorists to dissect the relationships between technology, labor, gender and the human body. 30 years later, filmmaker Hito Steyerl titled her video installation after a quote from the text: “machines made of pure sunlight.” 2015’s surreal and expansive Factory of the Sun borrows from video games, viral social media trends and documentary film to tell a visual narrative of workers made to dance in a motion-capture studio to produce artificial sunshine.


Factory of the Sun
Friday, 6pm, Free
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose

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