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Hito Steyerl's ability to interrogate and reinterpret our contemporary world of images is unparalleled. From data-driven warfare to fossil-fuelled fascism, Medium Hot is a Pandæmonium for the age of machine intelligence, a front line account of making art and meaning after the arrival of AI -- JAMES BRIDLE, author of WAYS OF BEING: ANIMALS, PLANTS, MACHINES: THE SEARCH FOR A PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE Steyerl is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the complexities of the digital world, art and capitalism and the implications of artificial intelligence for society. Medium Hot is an urgent read for the twenty-first century -- HANS ULRICH OBRIST, author of <i>WAYS OF CURATING</i> A Dante-esque journey through the roaring inferno of twenty-first-century visual culture. With the world's most astute observer as our guide, we move through a strange underworld of images that have become statistical, operational, thermal, perverse, boring, and deadly. Absolutely essential -- TREVOR PAGLEN, artist In 11 searing essays, filmmaker and new media scholar Steyerl discusses cutting-edge advancements in AI and art and outlines the ripple of damage caused by competing tech companies. By highlighting a system of global damage incurred at the expense of new technology, Steyerl paints a rotten digital landscape on the brink of something terrible. A techno-environmentalist warning shot for the digital landscape's impending doom. * Kirkus * With the rise of generative AI, images are changing; [Medium Hot] offers theoretical tools and language to grapple with what that means. -- Cassie Packard * Frieze * With this new book, Steyerl returns to her ongoing interest in the nature of digital images, which have grown ever stranger as AI tools become publicly accessible. * Art in America *

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HITO STEYERL is one of today's leading video artists. Her work explores the divisions between art, philosophy and politics. She has had solo exhibitions at, among others, MOCA, LA; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the ICA, London. She has participated in the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Documenta and Manifesta. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern. She is the author of The Wretched of the Screen and writes for numerous periodicals. She is currently Professor of New Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

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