Medium Hot
Images in the Age of Heat
by Hito Steyerl

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Author(s)

Hito Steyerl

Publication

London : Verso, 2025

Scope

192 Pages, illustrated, 21.5 cm.

ISBN

9781804298022

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Medium Hot is a collection of scintillating meditations on the limits of art and technology: the essential handbook for the present conjuncture. The pieces here probe the manufacture and distribution of images in the age of AI and climate change. Steyerl asks whether art can be made not only by machines but for machines. She argues against the production of images that heat up the planet, disfranchise workers and fuel the arms trade, and questions whether such creations can even be called art. In an era of such rapid change, Steyerl does vital work investigating whether machine learning will infiltrate every aspect of our lives and what that means for the future.

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Person as subject

Hito Steyerl

Keywords

artificial intelligence

Location

Cabinet 7 - 5: Kunstenaars

Extra themes

art and technology, technology and the post human condition

Remarks

Includes notes