Edited by Inke Arns, Sabine Weier, Jan Wenzel, Franciska Zólyom. Text by Jan Wenzel.
Geopolitics, technology and the global market as seen through East Germany’s titan of electronic manufacturing, Robotron
Technology company VEB Kombinat Robotron, or simply Robotron, became synonymous with the “third industrial revolution” of computers and microelectronics in East Germany. Code and Utopia revisits the history of this state-owned enterprise through a montage of art, oral history and archival documents.
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Published by Spector Books. Edited by Inke Arns, Sabine Weier, Jan Wenzel, Franciska Zólyom. Text by Jan Wenzel.
Geopolitics, technology and the global market as seen through East Germany’s titan of electronic manufacturing, Robotron
Technology company VEB Kombinat Robotron, or simply Robotron, became synonymous with the “third industrial revolution” of computers and microelectronics in East Germany. Code and Utopia revisits the history of this state-owned enterprise through a montage of art, oral history and archival documents.
