AUTOMATA WINDOWS:
NAOMI SAM: AFTERMATH OF DISILLUSION
August 1-18, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, August 1
730-930:pm
AUTOMATA is thrilled to announce the first exhibition in our special Summer/Fall 2025 AUTOMATA WINDOWS series. Multimedia artist NAOMI SAM will present Aftermath of Disillusion, a culmination of video, sculpture, and light. The exhibition is curated and organized by guest curator Colette Coriat.
Our 2025 edition of AUTOMATA WINDOWS invites artists to examine the meaning of display, viewership, and voyeurism using the site-specific setting of Automata’s window space. Artists working with sculpture, video, light, and installation will call into question the restrictions and ramifications of ‘the display’ and how it affects their work, the audience, and themselves.
NAOMI SAM’s installation will be on view in Automata’s Windows 24/7 between August 1st - August 18th, 2025.
Please join us outside on Chung King Court for the opening reception on Friday August 1st at 7:30 PM.
About the Artist
Naomi Sam is a transmedia artist whose hybrid works span installation, sculpture, painting, animation, and video games. Blending digital and analog methods, her practice explores speculative futures as well as speculative archeologies, techno-natural symbiosis, and worldbuilding through a playful, cyber feminist lens.
Her work contemplates relics of the Anthropocene, posthumanism, environmentalism, digital alchemy, magical reinvention of socio-economic systems, and spirituality in times of hyper-capitalism. It investigates the narrative qualities of symbols, landscapes, and characters through multi-layered multimedia processes, translating theoretical thought into fragmented, poetic storytelling. Her material process focuses on reimagining the context and purpose of materials and practices, interweaving aspects of contemporary technology with traditional methods of art making and fabrication.
Through this synthesis of methods and themes, Sam’s practice shifts our perspective of scale, space and time and serves as a catalyst for collective imagination beyond the analogies of our social and economical systems.
About the Curator
Coriat is a current student in the Photography & Media program at California Institute of the Arts. Her practice revolves around photography, image to object based work, and large scale light/image projection. She is the current Programming & Curatorial Intern at Automata