Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat
Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat
<p>/ by Hito Steyerl. - London : Verso 2025. - 192 p. : ill. ; 21,5 cm<br>Includes notes </p>
ISBN: 9781804298022
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.
