Hito Steyerl, a prolific filmmaker, writer and visual artist, will give a public talk as part of The Manetti Shrem California Studio at UC Davis on Nov. 30. The artist’s lecture will be held at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at 4:30 p.m.

Called “art’s most powerful person, a tireless questioner of humanity in the digital age” by Philip Oltermann in The Guardian, Steyerl’s work encompasses art, philosophy and politics. Her work investigates visibility and the nature of reality in our networked, digital world through documentary and speculative film, cinematic installations, video games and performative lectures.

In 2022 and 2023, she had solo exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Steyerl studied documentary film directing in Japan and Germany and holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Academy of the Arts in Vienna. She is a professor of experimental film and video at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

This event is free and open to the public. The talk is organized by The Manetti Shrem California Studio in the Department of Art and Art History and co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.  

Throughout the year, art studio at UC Davis presents numerous public lectures by leading contemporary artists and art professionals through the Art Studio Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Lecture Series, and The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies. For more details on these programs and upcoming events, please visit artstudio.ucdavis.edu.

The Department of Art and Art History is part of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis.