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Adversarial Infrastructure

Adversarial Infrastructure is an investigation into the volumetric history of the Crimean annexation that employs deepfake technology as a research method. Dissecting the Crimean Bridge, the crystallised artefact of Russian colonial violence that spans through cyberspace no less than offline landscape, this film aims to assemble the new image of logistical infrastructures as a type of hybrid warfare.

  • Anna Engelhardt
    Director
  • Regular Citizen
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 47 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 5, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Russian Federation
  • Country of Filming:
    Russian Federation
  • Language:
    English, Russian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
    Oberhausen
    Germany
    May 1, 2021
    German Premiere
  • DEMO Moving Image Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    July 5, 2020
    International Premiere
Director Biography - Anna Engelhardt

Anna Engelhardt (b. Kostroma, Russia) is an alias for a practice-based researcher, conducting her PhD on the electromagnetic infrastructure of Russian cyber warfare at Queen Mary, UoL. Her main interests are the (de)colonial politics of algorithmic and logistical infrastructures in post-Soviet space. Being concerned with infrastructure as a form of politics, she develops her practice through writing and manufacturing digital landscapes.

Anna's recent project Adversarial Infrastructure (2020), an investigation into the volumetric history of the Crimean annexation that employs deepfake technology as a research method, presented at Kyiv Biennial, Ars Electronica, Gossamerfog Gallery, and featured on Art Monthly. She has recently presented at Recursive Colonialism, AI & Speculative Computation symposium with her research on racialised topologies of Russian logistics. Anna is a part of Digital Democracies Institute, where she contributes to 'Cyberwar Topologies: In Struggle for a post-American Internet' project with her research on Russian cyber warfare.

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