The fifth Industrial Art Biennial activates sites across Croatia’s northwestern Istria region, kicking off at the Pijacal complex in Labin. Curated by Bani Brusadin and Giulia Colletti, “The Vast Automaton” populates the former coal mine with works examining automation and extractivism. Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Lawrence Lek, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, and others address the provocation: “What is industry, when industrialization runs through data streams and convoluted decision-making processes?”