On July 2nd CATNEMI is about to present the next ZeM-Lecture. Under the title „Contaminated Vision: Wolfgang G. Schröter at the Filmfabrik Wolfen“ Katerina Korola from University of Minnesota – Twin Cities will talk about the industrial photography series by Wolfgang G. Schröter that he did around the 1960ies at the largest film factory in Europe, located in the GDR, the VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen. Foregrounding the atmospheric dimensions of Schröter’s photographs, the lecture approaches his series as an unlikely archive that not only reveals the material conditions of photographic production, but also prompts us to reflect on its toxicity, the consequences of which continue to shape life in the region today.
The lecture takes place at
ZeM – Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften
Hermann-Elflein-Straße 18
14467 Potsdam
July 2nd, 5 pm.
Katerina Korola is an Assistant Professor of German Media at the University of Minnesota and a NOMIS Fellow at the eikones Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel. She is completing her first monograph, Picturing the Air: Photography and the Industrial Atmosphere, which tells a history of air pollution as a photographic problem.
find more information here: https://www.zem-brandenburg.de/veranstaltungen/zem-lecture-contaminated-vision-wolfgang-g-schroeter-at-the-filmfabrik-wolfen/
