Hito Steyerl, Thomas Keenan, and Mark Wasiuta discuss the role of “the document” in their work. This event takes place on the occasion of the launch of Mark Wasiuta’s book The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, 2006–2016.
Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer based in Berlin. Her work addresses media, technology, and the global circulation of images through video installations, digital environments, and writing. She is Professor for Emergent Digital Media at Munich Art Academy.
Thomas Keenan is the director of the Human Rights Project and Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility (1997); and, with Eyal Weizman, Mengele’s Skull (2012). He has served on the boards of a number of human rights organizations and journals, including WITNESS, Scholars at Risk, The Crimes of War Project, The Journal of Human Rights, and Humanity. Thomas teaches courses on human rights, media theory, and literature.
Mark Wasiuta is Co-Director of the Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program at Columbia University’s GSAPP. He works on problems of media, environment, and technology in postwar architecture and its experimental practices. He is currently curating and producing Early Warning Architecture, the official representation for Canada at the 20th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
