The old brickworks in Lage - today an industrial museum - is special in its experience as a media space, since this factory already represents a dark factory in a broader sense. Suppressed by technical progress and automation, it is no longer in operation and is a reflection of the past. By projecting a future perspective of work onto the environment of a disused industry, the Alte Ziegelei awakens in the digital age and becomes a smart factory.

Design decisions had to be made based on the presented forms of data and pulse transmission. As already explained, the machine language is not linear and follows differentiated rules with its different types. In order to bring these different programming languages ​​into a uniform one, the computer first runs them through a compiler. We have therefore consciously decided against man-made code in all its forms. We deliberately avoid numbers, diagrams and other text-based animations. The machine is made up of code; the essence, what really defines the behaviour and style of communication between machines, is more likely to be found in concepts of theoretical computer science (Turing machine, automata, graph theory, etc.). That's why we decided to use abstract forms in the design. We see dots, squares and other geometric shapes. They network, flash, move in virtual space or change colour. Logical, analysing operations and processes that take place between machines or machine components. They pull themselves over the components of the edge mill. Information pops up and closes again. The flow of information; Data streams are forwarded. The entertainment - the machine party - is primarily created by the different tempos and spatiality in the movement and the autoreactive or -sensitive reaction of the individual animation elements. It is precisely this informal, non-linguistic way of communicating that creates a tense narrative that programming languages ​​could not achieve.

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