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In a video trilogy centred on the Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC, Su Yu Hsin tells of landscapes and their transformation through industrial production. For the exhibition Robotron. Code and Utopia, the artist is creating the third part, in which she explores the history of the region where Silicon Saxony is being developed today. It leads to Gittersee, not far from the Elbe, where at the end of the 1980s a uranium mining operation belonging to Wismut AG was to be converted into a hyperpure silicon plant as part of the GDR's microelectronics programme. However, the plan was cancelled due to protests in the context of the environmental movement.

On the occasion of the film premiere, Franciska Zólyom, director of the GfZK and co-curator of the exhibition, talks to the artist and media scholar Vera Tollmann.

Su Yu Hsin is an artist, filmmaker and graduate of the HGB Leipzig. In her research-orientated practice, she explores the relationship between ecology and technology. Her equally analytical and poetic narratives focus on the critical infrastructures in which humans and non-humans come together. Her video installations have been exhibited in museums and at international art biennials around the world, including the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan and the Taipei Biennale.

Vera Tollmann researches and teaches at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University. The Centre focuses on digital media technologies and infrastructures in the context of social challenges such as climate change, global conflicts, digital divides and social injustices.