Artistic works are brought together from regions shaped by technological asymmetries, exploitation, and extractive practices. Through fragile bodily experience, their artworks expose how infrastructures redistribute power and dependency across territories and institutions and trace forms of political imagination and counter-practices emerging within these conditions.

To mark the 40th anniversary of transmediale, the exhibition also works with the festival’s archive: not simply as data stored on a computer or material sitting on a shelf, but a circulation within our present currents, available to be politically reactivated. Through research into the archive, eeefff creates a durational installation and a series of performative sessions of the School of Algorithmic Solidarity. At the physical centre of the exhibition, Ruined Assembly unfolds as a public space created through the collective efforts of a group of researchers and institutions working under conditions of technological asymmetry and instability, and at the intersections of extractive practices to map counter-tactics.