From looms to a digital code. From factories to computer chips. From gestures to automated machines. Patterns Against Workers delves deep into the fabrics of technological infrastructures that determine contemporary conditions of labour. Tirelessly swiping and scrolling through archival documents, images and patterns, the short film interweaves the economic, political, and engineering forces, which manifest in the operating systems of our glowing screens. There, behind its surface, the repetitive patterns of weave codes, datasets, and orchestrated gestures, echo methods of capitalistic extraction that not only penetrate algorithmic networks but also deserted landscapes and sleepless bodies.

Olena Newkryta is a visual artist based in Vienna. Through films, installations and textile pieces, Olena explores the interrelations between forms of marginalized labour, technological infrastructures and strategies of exploitation in contemporary capitalism.