Hito Steyerl is an artist living in Berlin and a professor of New Media at the city’s Universität der Künste. Steyerl participated in ‘Seeing is Believing’ at Kunst-Werke Berlin and ‘The Global Contemporary. Artworlds After 1989’ at Zentrum für Kunst- und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, which continues until February 2012. A compilation of her essays Wretched of the Screen is forthcoming.