In the organizer's words:

In the early 20th century, the rapid development of industrial production, the supposedly endless increase in profits, but also the need to improve working conditions, led to attempts to optimize work processes. Sandra Schäfer's video created for the exhibition Robotron. Code and Utopia tells the story of people and machines, the energy they expend and the raw materials they need for production.

Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she will present her work and talk about her artistic practice.

Sandra Schäfer deals with the production processes of urban and transregional spaces, history and image politics in film, photography and artistic research. She completed her artistic PHD on militant image and spatial politics at the HfbK Hamburg in 2018. Schäfer is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and an associate member of the feminist film distributor Cinenova in London. Her work is regularly shown at festivals such as the 66th and 67th Berlinale (Forum Expanded), Berlin, and in exhibitions in Germany and abroad. She has published numerous books, including Archive Books Berlin, Camera Austria Graz and Spector Books.

Clemens von Wedemeyer is an artist and professor of expanded cinema at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. His films and video installations have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including at dOCUMENTA(13) 2012, at skulptur projekte münster 2007 and at MoMA, New York. Major solo exhibitions have taken place at the GfZK Leipzig and Kunstmuseum Luzern (2019), the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the nbk Berlin (both 2016), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015); Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2013); Barbican Centre, London (2009); PS1, New York (2006).