Depressed robots, foolish AI's, autonomous cigarettes - these are the protagonists of Elisa Jule Braun‘s videos and installations.
Their settings: urban and rural living environments, more or less structured by digital technologies. And as it is in networks, something is always being transmitted: data, rituals, language, mood, movements or power, always including their interferences.

Using means of visual anthropology, Braun dissects conflicts that lie in the tension between globalized capital and local reality.
With unproductive machines such as vacuum cleaners, drones and trolleys brought to life, and in semi-documentary fables that sketch a Swabian science fiction, Braun‘s works analyze the world in a playful, conceptual way. Dialect meets dialectic, tradition meets technology, and hauntology meets hegemony.