The two-channel video installation by international artist Sandra Sch\u00e4fer shows, on the left screen, an essay film on August Sander\u2019s portraits of Sch\u00e4fer\u2019s great-aunts and uncles, members of a farming family in the Westerwald. On the right are landscape images taken using lidar technology \u2013 laser scanning used in navigating autonomous vehicles. The two-channel projection typically used in Sch\u00e4fer\u2019s video works breaks away from the iconic role and meaning attributed to the single filmic image and unveils different levels of meaning. Image analysis is the very method of socio-cultural critique. So, by opening the film with the image of Sander\u2019s son\u2019s famous death mask, the artist asks how this indexical representation might work in tandem with the new lidar technology. How is our understanding of \u00bbnature\u00ab changed by how it is visually realised through (modern) technologies? How has our vision of agriculture and farmers changed since Sander?<\/p>\n