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Los Angeles Times, June 14, 2007, "Mythmaking for Adults", by F. Kathleen Fole Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2007, "Propagating Puppets" by Diane Haithman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1598995432297-68V7ZZLZYTYHBPV847VE/Loretta%2BArm%2Bon%2BCouch.jpg 2007: Susan Simpson Concrete Folk Variations: Chapter 1 Written, Directed and Designed By Susan Simpson Concrete Folk Variations is an urban folktale set in the lesbian bars of McCarthy era Los Angeles. Originally a three episode puppet play mapping the labyrinthine culture of 1940's Silver Lake - secret codes, clandestine homosexual societies, flamboyant transgressions and soul crushing silence. Concrete Folk is performed with small-scale puppets, projections, and a minimalist mid-century Los Angeles cityscape. https://www.automatala.org/2007-peter daily 0.75 2020-09-01 https://www.automatala.org/2007-christine-wertheim daily 0.75 2020-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1598992727939-OVN8J1UBKLLMUBPXX0IE/SockPuppet-Card+copy%282008%29.jpg 2007: Christine Wertheim https://www.automatala.org/beth-peterson-one-grain-of-sand-puppet-theater daily 0.75 2020-09-01 https://www.automatala.org/2007-emily-lacy daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1598994575869-8ARC0MKF8RAW0SE07C6B/Emily+Lacy.jpg 2007: Emily Lacy Leonard Cohen Opens the Sky by Emily Lacy The Manual Archive September 29, 2007 https://www.automatala.org/2008-susan-simpson daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1598995629205-C1JU3EIQ31N416JVVYSE/Loretta%2Bstaring%2Bdown.jpg 2008: Susan Simpson Concrete Folk Variations: Chapters 1 and 2 Created by Susan Simpson The Manual Archives on March 6-22, October 10-19, 2008 The International Toy Theater Festival on May 25-26, 20089 Santa Monica Museum on July 18-19, 2008 Susan Simpson's serial puppet play, a steely serial noir set in the cop-shops, lesbian bars and streetcars of McCarthy era Los Angeles, just before the rise of the modern gay rights movement. LAist, March 17, 2008 "A Play About Puppets That Do Terrible Things to Each Other" by Ross Lincoln https://www.automatala.org/2008-alison-heimstead-shannon-scrofano daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://www.automatala.org/2007-janie-geiser daily 0.75 2020-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1598997172144-CX9C5BLI348I2RCJT6Q3/magnetic_sleep_film_still__4.jpg 2007: Janie Geiser Magnetic Sleep A 9-part Serial Film/Installation by Janie Geiser Magnetic Sleep centers around the figure of the woman hypnotist, and follows her through an ever shifting landscape of desire, confusion, and loss. 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This program included Jordan Biren's All That Passes Before You, Already in Ruins, and Perry Hoberman's Denial Clinic. https://www.automatala.org/2008-janie-geiser daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://www.automatala.org/2009-automata-benefit daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1599167005058-5U3ETN9AMWJFO5ZFB4TO/automata+fund+raiser+image.jpg 2009: Automata Benefit Automata Benefit To celebrate our 5th year, Automata hosted its first benefit. Benefit performers included Paul Zaloom, Laura Heit, Susan Simpson, Janie Geiser, Eli Presser, Weba Garretson and Ralph Gorodetsky. The benefit also included a raffle, hosted by Marsian de Lellis, and an art auction with works by artists and filmmakers. The Automata Benefit was held at The Metabolic Studio to overflow crowds. (Thank you to The Metabolic Studio at Farmlab.) https://www.automatala.org/2009-susan-simpson daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://www.automatala.org/2009-janie-geiser daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1599168013067-1WX36946KR5XYKTS3U0R/event-reptile-flowers-500.jpg 2009: Janie Geiser The Reptile Under the Flowers (work-in-progress) Created by Janie Geiser Music by Valerie Opielski Lighting by Brandon Stirling-Baker Presented at the Foshay Masonic Lodge, a co-presentation of The Museum of Jurassic Technology and Automata (May 21-24, 2009) The Reptile Under the Flowers explores issues of truth and illusion, the relationship between power and love, and the emotional trauma of war. In today's political climate, these issues are constantly in front of our eyes. The Reptile Under the Flowers is a walk-through diorama-performance in 13 scenes, using puppetry, peepshows, mechanical performing objects, miniature projections, and a spinning dollhouse, crumbling in the snow. https://www.automatala.org/2009-clare-dolan daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1599168375064-DIBT30H2F95611CC2RHG/Clare+Dolan.jpg 2009: Clare Dolan Mild Light: An evening of Cantastoria The Manual Archives (July 3-5, 2009) Picture story recitation performance by Clare Dolan, Chief Operating Philosopher of the Museum of Everyday Life (Vermont). Using examples from the permanent collection of the Museum of Everyday Life, Clare demonstrated the versatility and immediacy of this performance form, with stories ranging from accounts of bloody crime in the 1930's written by Bertolt Brecht, to the dilemmas of a modern-day heroine trying to make a living and achieve total happiness. 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PART I: June 5-7 NAME/HERE: a guided walking tour by DanRae Wilson and Julia Hiser AN EXCITED PLASMA EVENT, ONE DAY ON TALAPIA ISLAND; THE END by Yelena Zhelezov, Oliver Hess EXHIBIT A: installation and performance by Tom Pejic, Monica Oller, Katie Shook and Susan Simpson PART II: June 26-28 GRIFFITH PARK INFERNO by Barbara Bestor and Janie Geiser THE BRIDGE THAT DENIED ITS BOTTOM by Ana Henton and Caitlin Lainoff HALFWAY TOWARDS A BEGINNING / HALFWAY TOWARDS AN END by Ken Ehrlich and Darius Manino https://www.automatala.org/2009lewisklahrtomgunning daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1599170760658-FSIHC6ODOYO42P1JSEKG/image-asset.jpeg 2009: Lewis Klahr, Tom Gunning From 45 to 33: Lewis Klahr's Films about Childhood Featuring a conversation with Tom Gunning and Lewis Klahr Co-presented with the Velaslavasay Panorama (October 2009) The program featured The Pharoah's Belt (1994) and Picture Books for Adults (1983-85). KCET, Nov 4, 2009 "Coming Soon: Lewis Klahr" by Holly Willis https://www.automatala.org/2009-julianna-jp-parr-moira-macdonald daily 0.75 2020-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1599171096208-RC8ITS26XJPA9O62L2UX/image-asset.png 2009: Julianna J.P. Parr, Moira MacDonald The Sparkly Winter Christmas Holiday Hanukkah Nogstyle Christmas Show! By Julianna J.P. Parr and Moira Lael MacDonald The Velaslavasay Panorama (December 11-20) This show begins with a Los Angeles DASH bus and concludes with a stupendous cataclysmic show-stopping seasonal scenario that defies all reasoning. https://www.automatala.org/2010-susan-simpson-exhibit-a daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600886644812-SCXOSI0X4G5LY3M4SNV8/susan+simpson_exhibit+A.jpg 2010: Susan Simpson, Exhibit A Exhibit A Written and directed by Susan Simpson Created in collaboration with Monica Oller, Katie Shook and Tom Pejic Santa Barbara Forum for Contemporary Art February 4, 2010 Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA March 10, 2010 Links Hall, Banners and Cranks Festival, Chicago, IL May 7-9, 2010 (excerpt) The Manual Archives, June 5-7, 2009 Exhibit A explores the overlapping worlds of science fiction fandom and nascent gay organizing in 1950's Los Angeles. touching on the utopian visions and language that fueled both sub-cultures. It draws its inspiration from the collections of Jim Kepner, a man who was deeply immersed in both worlds. Exhibit A is a multimedia piece. Through the use of spy cams, dioramas and primitive green screen technology, actors enter miniature worlds and interact with their inhabitants. https://www.automatala.org/2010-marsian-de-lellis-bride-of-wildenstein daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600887279569-VW2R7QCVQ5UZTGBV20K8/Marsian+De+Lellis_Bride+of+Wildenstein.jpg 2010: Marsian De Lellis, Bride of Wildenstein Bride of Wildenstein By Marsian De Lellis Co-Written by P.J. McWhiskers Directed by Derron Wood Music Composition: Josh Senick Sound Design by E. Martin Gimenez Sound Effects by Sarah Marie Ibrahim Sound Operation by Moira Lael MacDonald Puppet Building by Chase Woolner, Greg Ballora, Sarah Sowell ”Bringing Dreams to Life”: David Jordan Lighting Design by Brandon Stirling Baker Dramaturgy by Leila Ghaznavi Costume Design: Hunter Wells, Corset Design Lee Frank Vargas, Rachel Weir In Bride of Wildenstein – The Musical, an aging socialite grows fur and claws to recapture her philandering game hunter husband’s attention. Using puppets and masks to augment the body, this solo cabaret performance playfully unpacks desire and the contagion of identity with songs that examine the making of a monstrosity. The weird and tragic love story wildly reimagines tabloid accounts of the real-life “cat woman”, Jocelyn Wildenstein. As the protagonist’s marriage dissolves, she begins to reinvent herself through drastic measures. But biomedical and surgical procedures to become more feline only heighten her sense of estrangement and embolden her quest to find a fiercer sense of self. https://www.automatala.org/2011-janie-geiser-clouded-sulphur daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1602106621590-KPDUVHKAHQK1AHYMBI1P/clouded+sulphur+workshop+%23+2+copy.jpg 2011: Janie Geiser, Clouded Sulphur Clouded Sulphur By Janie Geiser Developed by Janie Geiser and Erik Ehn First script reading, January 2011 A true crime bunraku, developed by Janie Geiser and playwright Erik Ehn. https://www.automatala.org/2012-sparkleblobs-seasons-greetings daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600891918641-O2J0SIMIN1NWJTU2J4L8/Screen+Shot+2020-09-23+at+1.11.32+PM.png 2012: Sparkleblob's Seasons Greetings Sparkleblob's Seasons Greetings: A Disaster in Four Acts December 14 - 23, 2012 A multidimensional musical puppet adventure including faith, freight and fruitcake. Silver Lake's most well-adjusted family rafts down the L.A. River to get their pagan-revival Christmas tree and meets the greatest earthquake ever known, plunging them a thousand feet down to an esoteric primeval world. SparkleBlob brings puppet musical joy each December to the people of Los Angeles! Artistic Director Julianna (J.P.) Parr is the master puppeteer, chief scriptwriter and show director. The December 2012 SparkleBlob cast included performers Shannon Dedman, Kate Gilbert, Rosalind Helfand, Monica Howe, Alex Kenefick, Julianna Parr, and Linda Santiman. A live band, The Dinglebell Hollies (Arlen Jones, Coral Lobera, and Eric Potter), under the musical direction of composer Joshua Fielstra. https://www.automatala.org/2012-cabaret-automata daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600892325614-JP93S0YS8EX3ZBR1JGXB/The+Tinwoodman+of+Oz%2C+with+Street+Buddy+at+Cabaret+Automata.jpg 2012: Cabaret Automata Cabaret Automata November 30 and December 1, 2012 Co-Hosted and Curated by Moira MacDonald and Christian Cummings Music by Kevin Taylor with Linda Rife Our first Cabaret Automata included a wild array of artists, performers, musicians and much more. Featuring Marsian DeLellis, Matthew Fielder, Gina Napolitan,Liz Toonkel, Megan Rippey, Eli Presser & Jesse Kingsley, Lee Lynch, and STREET BUDDY (Joel Kayack & Matt Johnson) (Photo Above: The Tinwoodman of Oz, with Street Buddy at Cabaret Automata) https://www.automatala.org/2011-piterburg daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600893450078-KK8W9494KGNI7IOC08CM/Screen+Shot+2020-09-23+at+1.37.17+PM.png 2011: Piter-burg Piter-burg Питер-Burg January 24, 2011, Echo Park Film Center Devised by the company of Theater Pokoleniy (St. Petersburg, Russia) A conversation with Danila Korodovsky, Artistic Director of Theater Pokoleniy, St Petersburg, Russia, and Los Angeles theater artists Chris Barecca, Susan Simpson, and Janie Geiser. The artists presented a talk about their collaboration with St. Peterburg's Theater Pokoleniy on the recent company-developed performance Piter-burg, a rumination on the history and spirit of St. Petersburg. The Piter-burg residency was sponsored, in part, through funds from Cultural Exchange Program of the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles grant program, and the CalArts School of Theater Faculty Development Fund. https://www.automatala.org/2012-furnace-carole-kim daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600893808909-PPJBQ0T1X97RPPITRMPK/Screen+Shot+2020-09-23+at+1.42.49+PM.png 2012: FURNACE, by Carole Kim FURNACE By Carole Kim Dance by Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, Morleigh Steinberg Sound by Scott Cazan, Phil Curtis, Odeya Nini Video/Audio-Visualization: Jesse Gilbert, Moses Hacmon November 16-18, 2012 Carole Kim's residency at Automata culminated in a two-floor multimedia installation-performance entitled FURNACE. This work, inspired by the book There But For The by Ali Smith, is a continuation of Carole Kim's ongoing experimentation in immersive projection environments. In lieu of heat, Furnace creates a radiant soundscape that permeates from the basement to the ground floor. https://www.automatala.org/2012-not-the-higgs-boson-margaret-wertheim daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600895155334-LWM4JXZIY8998OU0HBN0/Screen+Shot+2020-09-23+at+2.05.14+PM.png 2012: Not the Higgs Boson, Margaret Wertheim Not the Higgs Boson: A Conversation with Margaret Wertheim and Lizzie Wade about Physics on the Fringe August 11, 2012 In this conversation Margaret Wertheim, author of the new book Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons and Alternative Theories of Everything discussed the subject of outsider science and its relationship to both mainstream science and art with WIRED writer Lizzie Wade. The discussion was followed by a reception and visit to the Institute For Figuring to view the exhibition Physics on the Fringe. https://www.automatala.org/2012-star-a-play-for-puppets-by-katie-shook daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1602106938303-RWRMR4DEHBTA6NVRCMOF/STAR+x%2C+Directed+and+Designed+by+Katie+Shook+_+photo+DanRae+Wilson.jpg 2012: STAR A Play for Puppets by Katie Shook https://www.automatala.org/2012-translucent-travels daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1602106814663-4E502CE5ZD3W5FEKWAA4/translucent+travels+image.jpg 2012: Translucent Travels Translucent Travels: An Evening of Slide Show Travelogues September 29, 2012 Featuring slide shows by Los Angeles luminaries including: Ursula Brookbank, Moira MacDonald, Doug Harvey+Christian Cummings, Julianna (JP) Parr, Sara Velas and Paul Zaloom plus Don Suggs' Picture Machine on view in Automata's Window. Guest Host: Don Wildman https://www.automatala.org/2013-clouded-sulphur-janie-geiser daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600895944594-YWG5CMJ5O7FEG97ZOX8F/Janie+Geiser_Clouded-Sulphur-death-is-a-knot-undone.jpg 2013: Clouded Sulphur, Janie Geiser Directed by Janie Geiser Written by Erik Ehn Music Composed by Valerie Opielski Set Design: Sarah Krainin Video Design: Carole Kim Lighting Design: Jeff Teeter Costume Design: Catherine Adell Technical Design/Direction: Sarah Sowell Puppet Design: Janie Geiser Automata The premiere of Clouded Sulphur (death is a knot undone) is a multidisciplinary performance work that merges puppetry, projection, text, and music to explore the emotional landscape of inexplicable loss. Developed in collaboration by Director/Designer/Filmmaker Janie Geiser, Playwright Erik Ehn, and Composer Valerie Opielski, Clouded Sulphur's elliptical narrative imagines the emotional space around absence. Created in response to the tragic, unsolved murder of a 15 year old Los Angeles girl, Clouded Sulphur navigates a complex terrain of family, loss, revenge, and unexpected hope. Set at the edge of Los Angeles, where the untamed landscape meets the city, we center our project on absence, on cognition in the wild place, on the range of feelings that flow through brokenness (revenge, disbelief, unexpected floods of compassion and hope). Clouded Sulphur gives home to stories that are adrift. The figures move inexplicably between life and death, city and forest, as gravity and time are unmoored. Cast: Baxley Andresen, Catherine Adell, Park Cofield, Cindy Derby, Tane Kawasaki, Jesse Kingsley, Moira MacDonald, Gina Napolitan, Erin O'Donnell, Whitney Rodriguez, and Hilario Saavedra. https://www.automatala.org/2013-into-the-sun-by-pitch-like-masses-and-magnuzaki-lab daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600896877715-PYNGP6JPA17Q9I7OXWPB/image-asset.jpeg 2013: INTO THE SUN
by Pitch Like Masses and Magnuzaki Lab INTO THE SUN by Pitch Like Masses and Magnuzaki Lab March 8-9, 2013 Automata Into the Sun, is a visual and sonic journey that utilizes live improvisational animation and music to lead the viewer through the life cycles of our most central cosmic body. Magnuzaki Labs is a husband and wife team. They are Los Angeles based artists, and expats of Iceland and Japan. They create highly tactile moving images incorporating hand drawn animation, stop action and real textures to their digital work. Pitch Like Masses is a electro-acoustic music quartet who formed in 2009. They have performed extensively around the Downtown LA art gallery scene, in Austria and Germany, have collaborated with boundary-pushing dance/performance art groups In-SENSO (France) and The Mob (Sweden.) They most recently performed at REDCAT’s NOW fest, where they composed and performed original music for Susan Simpson’s Exhibit A. These two evenings also featured a window installation by Robbie Nock https://www.automatala.org/2013-disappearing-acts-and-resurfacing-subjects-by-choreographer-sara-wookey daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600897159951-QWZQ8OGJJN1MYEXQ8EFL/DISAPPEARING+ACTS+AND+RESURFACING+SUBJECTS+By+Choreographer%2C+Sara+Wookey.jpg 2013: DISAPPEARING ACTS AND RESURFACING SUBJECTS By Choreographer, Sara Wookey DISAPPEARING ACTS AND RESURFACING SUBJECTS By Sara Wookey March 15 - 17, 2013 Automata Sara Wookey's new solo performance/lecture, Disappearing Acts & Resurfacing Subjects: Concerns of (a) Dance Artist(s) made its Los Angeles debut as part of Automata's 2013 Artist In Residence series, following presentations at the Ethics in Aesthetics Conference in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The performance considers dance as a disappearing act, an erasure as construct, and questions recurring subjects floating in the public sphere - such as the preservation, ownership, and value of dance itself. Through image, movement and text, Sara reflects on being a subsidized artist in Europe in the 1990's, a freelance artist creating site-based projects in Los Angeles, and a selection of responses to her well known Open Letter to Artists. She spins together large themes of legacy in dance, the economic condition of artists, and strategies for making it (Included is a humorously touching, but failed, Kickstarter campaign). The result is a funny, poetic and whip-smart consideration of dance in our time. https://www.automatala.org/2013-exhibit-a-by-susan-simpson daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://www.automatala.org/2013-song-of-yourselves-created-by-john-p-hogan daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600897715991-UZLXSGPKPEXUX7G69XTS/songofyourselves_John+Hogan.jpg 2013: Song of Yourselves Created by John P. Hogan Song of Yourselves Created by John P. Hogan May 24-25, 2013 Automata Visual Artist/Writer/Musician/Performer John P. Hogan's new work Song of Yourselves is part performance art, part song cycle, part slide show, part karaoke. It looks at our world through the periscope of image, humor, puppets, text, and song. As Hogan himself describes the piece: "It's an Irish Wake of sorts for American Exceptionalism. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Clint Eastwood’s iconic Chair Piece, and the fragmented micromanagement of the self and others through art, poetry, and bureaucracy will all come under consideration.” Audiences are encouraged to “bring your own barbaric yawp, as festivities will include contextually appropriate songs sung by the audience, live music, and other spectacular delights yet to be determined.” John P. Hogan is an artist, writer, and musician based in Los Angeles. His work has been seen at venues including MCASD, Yerba Buena Center, Fritz Haeg’s Sundown Salon, MAK Center, and Machine Project. His work satirizes the grandstanding of dominant ideologies, with a focus on male anti-heroes in situations that dramatize imperialistic, colonial, and institutional struggles. Hogan is interested in the integration of entertainment culture with mythology, and the ways this is expressed in American subculture. My performance art evokes populist forms such as Community Theater and garage rock, which resist professionalization and celebrate untrained enthusiasm. https://www.automatala.org/2013-pentral-by-jacaszek daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600899734889-19QXCCHCSQMZTIKOPR5J/Screen+Shot+2020-09-23+at+3.21.46+PM.png 2013: Pentral by Jacaszek PENTRAL A performance by Polish electro-acoustic musician Jacaszek July 21, 2013 Automata Michal Jacaszek performed a live version of his album, Pentral, bringing his amazing aural interpretations of vast gothic churches to the intimate quarters of Automata. PENTRAL is an attempt to describe a gothic church interior by means of sounds. A temple owes its special atmosphere not only to visual elements but also to characteristic acoustics – reverb, enhancing and prolonging a slightest whisper into infinity. I spent several days in three Gdansk historic churches (Oliwa Cathedral, St. Nicolas’ church, St. Mary’s Basilica) recording chanting, organs, and also a broad spectrum of accidental noises. Studio work and also the atmosphere of melody and arrangements were subordinate to the idea of portraying the church as a place filled with distant mysteries, a huge music instrument. - Jacaszek Michal Jacaszek creates electroacoustic music that combines electronically prepared sounds with acoustic instruments. Composer of soundtracks and theatre music. He is a co-curator of C3 Festival /Club Contemporary Classical. Jacaszek received the Grand Prix at ”Dwa Teatry” Festival for music composed for the play ”Golgota Wrocławska” directed by Jan Komasa. He wrote music for two plays directed by Michał Siegoczyński: ”2084” and "SHOWTIME". He also created music for "There is no others, there is only us” a film directed by Marc Silver, as well as for ”Nigdy nie wrocisz do domu” (”You will never come back home”) a documentary movie by Jolanta Krysowata. His last work was the soundtrack for "Sala samobojcow” (Suicide’s Room) cinema movie directed by Jan Komasa. https://www.automatala.org/2013-so-long-observing-the-ray-by-dan-herschlein daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600900295635-Y2EUJD8IU4V0MLVE15WH/So+Long+Observing+The+Ray+An+exhibition+by+Dan+Herschlein.jpg 2013: So Long Observing The Ray by Dan Herschlein So Long Observing The Ray An exhibition by Dan Herschlein July 26 - August 2, 2013 Opening night (with performance) July 26, 7-9 pm A second performance during Perform Chinatown, July 27, 7-9pm Automata An arrangement of temporary facades divides the space like the walls of an unfinished basement. Posters, projections, photographs and videos are embedded in the sheetrock and obscured by studs where traces of a frantic privacy struggle to be unearthed from the structure which supports them. So Long Observing The Ray negotiates the borders of personal space, where the individual begins and ultimately ends, within the home that he attempts to make his own. Dan Herschlein lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work consists of projected handmade slides, as well as short videos made on outdated technology. Both explore the relationship between the degraded image and the physical body. https://www.automatala.org/2013-the-southland-ensemble-playing-christian-wolff daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://www.automatala.org/2013-video-musics-lll-floating-oceans-by-alexis-gideon daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://www.automatala.org/2013-clouded-sulphur-by-janie-geiser daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600901493285-38BRKW0O1YEEIUZ0LCCX/2013-09-25-CloudedSulphur2AmandaShank.jpg 2013: Clouded Sulphur by Janie Geiser Clouded Sulphur (death is a knot undone) As part of Radar L.A. 2013, presented by REDCAT and CalArts in association with Center Theatre Group Directed by Janie Geiser Written by Erik Ehn Music Composed by Valerie Opielski September 23 - 29 2013 Automata Some of the world’s most influential performing ensembles are featured alongside innovative Los Angeles artists in this vibrant festival highlighting interdisciplinary approaches and new forms. Using multiple venues, the program features work from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, New Zealand and Japan, and includes premieres of local and international collaborations. Curated by Mark Murphy, Executive Director of REDCAT, Diane Rodriguez, Director of New Play Production at Center Theatre Group, and Mark Russell, Director of the Devised Theater Initiative at The Public Theater in New York. "A glorious convergence of contemporary performance." ---L.A. Times ‘Clouded Sulphur (Death Is A Knot Undone)’ Kicks Off Radar L.A. Theater Festival - HuffPost https://www.automatala.org/2013-moira-lael-macdonald-in-margery-and-you-an-illuminated-lecture-with-song daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600901869032-VWLY0GCUHG104AWGOA7Q/Margery%2Band%2BYOU-+Moira+Lael+MacDonald.jpg 2013: Moira Lael MacDonald in MARGERY AND YOU An Illuminated Lecture with Song MARGERY AND YOU: An Illuminated Lecture with Song By Moira Lael MacDonald With Additional Vocals by Argenta Walther and Erin Barnes November 22nd-23rd, 2013 Automata Margery and You: An Illuminated Lecture with Song, is a multimedia presentation on the life of Margery Kempe, a medieval mystic and the author of what is considered to be the first autobiography written in English (circa 1436). Chronicling her life experience, The Book of Margery Kempe depicts the madness following the birth of her first child, her several attempts to run her own business, and her many pilgrimages to distant lands. Conceived and performed by the incomparable Moira Lael MacDonald, Margery and You is a meditation on Margery’s life and her struggle to follow a spiritual path. Drawing on the centuries old forms of Picture Performance and the Illustrated Lecture, Margery and You is also a chronicle of MacDonald's obsession with The Book of Margery Kempe, and issues of autobiography and the depiction of the self; the mystical journey, and the thin line between reportage and myth. Margery and You features live vocal performances of early American shape note singing, as well as songs written by Hildegarde von Bingen and Morrissey. Moira Lael MacDonald is a multidisciplinary theater artist and filmmaker. Iterations of the Margery cycle have been mounted at CalArts and Redcat, directed by Deena Selenow and Julianne Just, respectively. Other work includes The Life of the Bee, an adaptation of the book by Maurice Maeterlinck, and Letter from the Bees. Her short hand-processed film, The Visible Woman, was screened at Concord Space in LA, in the show Heavenly Directives. Moira holds an MFA in Puppetry and Integrated Media from CalArts, and a BFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was born and raised in Sitka, Alaska. https://www.automatala.org/2013-sparkleblobs-doublewide-roadside-holiday-snowflake-show daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600902207785-M2NVD8JDSYY6711RF6YS/Sparkleblob+2013+Christmas.jpg 2013: SparkleBlob's Doublewide Roadside Holiday Snowflake Show! SparkleBlob's Doublewide Roadside Holiday Snowflake Show! Written by Julianna (JP) Parr and Shannon Gallagher Directed by JP Music by:The DingleBell Hollies (a live band!) December 12 - 23, 2013 Automata Join Silverlake's most well-adjusted family as they spend their holiday vacation in the rustic, arid climate of the California desert, where the tumbleweeds tumble, and murmurs on the wind blow cool wind through your hair. Young Judy Haversham would love to be just about anywhere else, and is not in the mood for a journey built of a curious mixture of reality and imagination, which is, of course, just fine. SparkleBlob's 6th annual Holiday Puppet Show delivers expressly to you a hilarious and somewhat existential musical excursion through time and space that will warm your heart into happy holiday goop! The show will once again include before and after rides on the famed 'trike' plus delicious pre and after show treats and libations for sale and even reproductions of this year's beauteous puppet design paintings for purchase, as well. Surprises galore! Don't miss the fun--adults and kids alike will love the show! Here is what KCRW had to say about last years show: "It’s not easy finding holiday entertainment that both kids and adults can agree on. But here’s an idea: a bizarre puppet show featuring an ice-skating dinosaur, telenovelas, a disco dreidel, and the L.A. River." https://www.automatala.org/2014-the-key-game-project-sleep-staring-well-by-kristen-smiarowski daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://www.automatala.org/2014-cyrk-by-ursula-brookbank daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600968812573-QTZ8BIMI98X5AWESO1S2/CYRK.combo.2_Ursula.jpg 2014: CYRK by Ursula Brookbank CYRK Created by Ursula Brookbank Presented by SHE WORLD PRODUCTIONS and Automata Produced by Stephanie Kern With Emily Lacy, Sallie Merkel, Natalie Shriver, Laura Steenberge, and Dan Rae Wilson February 20-23, 2014 at Automata CYRK is an uncanny history of the She Clown recalled through music, immersive performance, installation and film. Mementos and relics assembled from the SHE WORLD ARCHIVE of artist Ursula Brookbank disclose a life's story as the audience moves through a topsy-turvy world of nomadic recollection. Ursula Brookbank is a Los Angeles based artist, who works in the mediums of film, video and photography. She received a BFA in Painting at the University of Florida in 1975. Relocating to LA in 1976, Brookbank started as a darkroom technician in a commercial photo studio, and has been an Art Director for still photography and video productions since 1979. Her image-based work currently engages the feminine detritus of her SHE WORLD ARCHIVE in an ongoing participatory and collaborative dialogue. Her work has been recently shown in Los Angeles at the Echo Park Film Center, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Craftswoman, the Center for Living Arts in Mobile, Alabama and Krowswork, Oakland, California.. https://www.automatala.org/2014-urban-renewal-kyle-decamp daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600969236089-VKTFXEFWQ5V081M9VKZH/URBAN+RENEWAL++Kyle+deCamp.jpg 2014: URBAN RENEWAL Kyle deCamp URBAN RENEWAL By Kyle deCamp March 8, 2014 at 8 PM Award-winning New York theater artist Kyle deCamp's Urban Renewal is a meditation on perception, public policy, and the significance of the buildings we live in, from a child’s rigorously unsentimental point of view. “BESSIE”-award winning performer Kyle deCamp maps an experience of growing up in Chicago in the chaotic ’60s, caught in the crosshairs of power and history. In a multimedia environment of projected space, Urban Renewal maps a piece of land in Chicago, drawing world history into a clash with individual lives. deCamp vividly spotlights her experience of growing up on a block razed by the last demolition of urban renewal in Hyde Park in 1963. The work exploits simultaneity of perception: extremes of scale, animations, multiple narratives, locations and timeframes create portals for the audience’s own memories, both private and public, individual and collective. "Smart, feisty, imaginative solo performer” —The Village Voice Kyle deCamp on “Urban Renewal,” Part of Crossing the Line 2013 —CultureBot https://www.automatala.org/2014-from-photographs-by-peiyi-wong daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600969495381-S1RMVX1APJ0HWAODQ1R2/Screen+Shot+2020-09-24+at+10.44.21+AM.png 2014: FROM PHOTOGRAPHS by Peiyi Wong FROM PHOTOGRAPHS An installation / performance by Peiyi Wong Written, directed, and performed by Peiyi Wong Sound / Music composition by Michael Day Sound / Music performances by Jenica Anderson, Michael Day, and Braden Diotte Puppetry by Miriam Jones Lighting by Jesse Baldridge Video by Jesse Garrison Cinematography by Matt Broach, Jessica Li, Sanmu Lin, Abraham Osuna, and Masha Tatarintsev Direction & performance developed w/ Miriam Jones, So-Ok Kim and Alexis Macnab March 15-16, 2014 at 8 PM Automata A multi-media installation / performance that attempts to examine the many ways we have of looking, in hopes of uncovering the ideal way forward. The latest research and findings of an anonymous amateur archeologist-explorer who remains inexplicably drawn to the ruins of Llano del Rio, a failed socialist utopian commune built on the edge of the Mojave Desert. https://www.automatala.org/2014-concrete-folk-variations-by-susan-simpson daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://www.automatala.org/2014-automata-10th-anniversary-benefit daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600970099317-5AYB0O99K21TS2H7WZ1V/Automata+10th+year+anniversary+Benefit2014.jpg 2014: Automata 10th Anniversary Benefit Automata 10th Anniversary Benefit May 17, 2014 A celebration of ten years of sublime experimental puppetry and performance in Los Angeles. An amazing evening of small wonders, puppet shows and tiny spectacles in all varieties, fine food and drink, and lots of live music. https://www.automatala.org/2014-southland-ensemble-plays-robert-ashley daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://www.automatala.org/2014-odeya-nini-performs-voiced daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600970849127-DOEK19LDXT8ZUXLLTS0V/image-asset.jpeg 2014: Odeya Nini performs VOICED VOICED By Odeya Nini June 20, 2014 Automata VOICED is a performance for experimental solo voice and movement, and compositions for voice, bassoon and percussion. Inspired by meeting points, parallels, polars, the power of subtly, and unearthed expression. The voice is thought of tangibly, and sound is treated as a physical sense to be fully immersed in. Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interests are textural harmony, gesture, tonal animation, and the illumination of minute sounds, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrete. As a vocalist she is devoted to redefining vocal interpretation and song through an exploration of extended vocal techniques, resonances, and how they communicate in conjunction with the physical body's language. Odeya has collaborated extensively with dancers, choreographers, animators and film makers as both a performer and composer, taking part in works by artists such as Meredith Monk, Butch Morris, Maureen Selwood, and the Yelleb Dance Ensemble. Her work has been presented at art galleries, museums, concert halls, festivals and under the open sky, around the US and internationally such as the Whitney Museum of Art in NY, REDCAT, Joyce Soho, Art Basel Miami, and from Tel Aviv to Odessa and Mongolia. Originally from NY with Yemenite Israeli roots, Odeya holds a BFA in Vocal Performance from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, where she studied with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, and an MFA in composition from California Institute of the Arts. https://www.automatala.org/2014-image-action-text-by-laurel-jenkins-tentindo daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://www.automatala.org/2014-keith-skretch-lookkill daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600971317129-1BVA7U7JHZRODPCO1ILG/Look%3AKill_+Keith+Skretch.jpg 2014: Keith Skretch
 

Look/KILL LOOK/KILL By Keith Skretch July 11-13, 2014 Automata The iconic western standoff is a wholly cinematic invention, and its tense juxtaposition of character and action, gaze and gun, is etched into American mythology. The climactic three-way duel of Sergio Leone's 1967 spaghetti western masterpiece The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is both an innovation and an apotheosis of the form, using a barrage of closeups, cutaways, and musical scoring to draw the fates of three archetypal characters toward a singular end. LOOK/KILL examines the impossible pre-violent moment of anticipation by stretching it into an absurdity. The film's careful montage is dismantled, separated into three distinct channels, and expanded into a durational and immersive installation, a living stasis which never repeats and never resolves. A version of this installation was first presented as part of CATCH 57 in Brooklyn, NY. https://www.automatala.org/2014-object-of-her-affection-by-marsian daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://www.automatala.org/2014-the-early-museum-east-wing-an-installation-with-periodic-performance-gina-marie-napolitan daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600972282175-TJM2URIJNE84E04LR0R5/earlymuseumslide005_Gina+Marie+Napolitan.jpg 2014: THE EARLY MUSEUM (East Wing): An Installation with Periodic Performance, Gina Marie Napolitan THE EARLY MUSEUM (East Wing): An Installation with Periodic Performance By Gina Marie Napolitan Presented in Automata's main gallery space, as well as our storefront windows, as part of AUTOMATA WINDOWS: INSIDE OUT August 1-3, 2014 (7 PM to 10 PM nightly) Gina Marie Napolitan is an experimental filmmaker and media artist originally from Brockton, Massachusetts, now residing in Los Angeles. Her animated films have screened at the Boston Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive in New York City, LA FilmForum, Antimatter Film Festival, Black Maria, animateCologne, and numerous other venues in the United States and abroad. In 2011, she was a recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation Award, and this past year she was awarded artist residencies at Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles and La Macina di San Cresci in Tuscany, Italy. Recently, Gina has worked as a puppeteer and video designer on several experimental theater productions at REDCAT and Automata. She received her BFA in Film/Video from Massachusetts College of Art and her MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. https://www.automatala.org/2014-little-creaking-gallery-with-baxley-andresen-and-erin-odonnell daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600972572320-BQN03LO2X0HH5GC29GR4/Little+Creaking+Gallery+Automata+2014.jpg 2014: Little Creaking Gallery With Baxley Andresen and Erin O'Donnell Little Creaking Gallery August 9, 2014 Automata With Baxley Andresen and Erin O'Donnell For one night only, object makers, puppet builders and artists bring their wares to Automata for the final Chinatown Summer Night of 2014. Works by Baxley Andresen, Chelsea Bayouth, Sean Donnelly, Jesse Kingsley, Moira MacDonald, Erin O'Donnell and Leah Olbrich will be on display and for sale https://www.automatala.org/2014-susan-simpson-performs-augustine-september-artist-in-residence daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1600972763396-1IJLOJYZR9VEC5YE9BB0/Susan+Simpson+performs-++Augustine+September-+Artist+in+Residence+2014.jpg 2014: Susan Simpson performs: Augustine September: Artist in Residence Susan Simpson performs: Augustine September: Artist in Residence July 26th - November 15, 2014 Kiosk #7 at the Far East Plaza in Chinatown Augustine September will be Automata's micro-resident artist throughout the summer and fall. Because she is small in stature was able to offer her a complete live/work space in Kiosk #7. September will be sharing her unique work process with the community during business hours in the plaza. Augustine September is a painter, writer and multimedia performer. Her practice encompasses costume creation, dance and small-scale paintings done as a medium for personal communication with individual audience members. During her residency, Augustine September will be developing an epic narrative around an embattled menagerie of animal, human and supernatural beings that she will both embody through costume and dance and chronicle through painting and writing. Augustine is accepting objects and materials to re-purpose for the costumes and props for her performances. Consider bringing her an offering. The Far East Plaza (727 N. Broadway) runs in between Hill and Broadway on the South end of Chinatown. Kiosk #7 lies right outside Chego and Scoops! https://www.automatala.org/2014-fugitive-time-by-automata daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://www.automatala.org/2015-i-was-a-landscape-in-your-dream-by-daphne-rosenthal-and-molly-allis daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601231764843-YUODP5K80APYT93PEDAA/01-I-was-a-landscape-in-your-dream_bearclub_800.jpg 2015: I WAS A LANDSCAPE IN YOUR DREAM by Daphne Rosenthal and Molly Allis I WAS A LANDSCAPE IN YOUR DREAM invites you to experience multiple alternative worlds of the present moment. Step into different sizes and scales and see what feels fabulous to you, on you. Listen in a dreamy bear den to folk lullabyes. Embellish and accessorize your body with body parts. Play with everyday objects that are non-functional. Watch the body and the camera have an open discussion. See what the camera catches and perceives, how the body longs to move and what the costume allows." Daphne Rosenthal is an experimental filmmaker and installation artist, with a background in documentary editing. Rosenthal’s work has been exhibited in galleries, festivals and museums throughout Europe and the US. Her work deals with the messy, restless, diffuse parts of ourselves, and the identification and association with daily life objects. Her installations use these everyday materials to create emotional landscapes that invite the viewer to wander and create their own experiences. In her films, Rosenthal documents the light and texture of these tactile landscapes; in her performances, the camera is active, a live agent of illumination. Rosenthal currently lives in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, where she has received MFA (2014) in Experimental Animation at Calarts. www.daphnerosenthal.eu Molly Allis is a Los Angeles based multi-media artist and composer. Her award-winning animations have screened in festivals nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Madrid Experimental Film Festival, and the Linoleum Festival in Moscow. She creates environments of play for people to inhabit, with realms of magic inside of the everyday. These installations become portals into deeper realms of intimacy and openness. Using lo-fi means of storytelling, she works with recycled materials to highlight the transformative potential of objects. She is also a founding member of Bear Club, a female indie-folk duo, whose new album is coming out in early 2015. Allis received her MFA from CalArts in Integrated Media and Experimental Sound Practices. http://loveparades.tumblr. BEAR CLUB is Molly Allis and Jenica Anderson, a female indie-folk duo based in Los Angeles. Molly and Jenica met while attending the MFA music program at CalArts. Together they create ambient songs that hold the listener in a series of lullabyes. Their self-titled debut album will be released in early 2015. https://soundcloud.com/bear-cub-in-a-bear-club https://www.automatala.org/2015-southland-ensemble-plays-cornelius-cardew daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://www.automatala.org/2015-tungsten-artery-by-janie-geiser daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601237864781-GSD7CSV081F51V2FNVMB/Janie_Tungsten-artery-2015_Cora-IV.jpg 2015: Tungsten (artery) by Janie Geiser Tungsten (artery) is a multidisciplinary puppet play that merges bunraku puppetry, shadows, video, sound, and text to create an elliptical rumination on our transience, our earthliness, our dust. Tungsten (artery) is a meditation on mortality in an age where the lines between life and death are blurred. A young woman is serially born and eaten by the planet. Going back and forth from grave to rebirth, experience grows confused - earth is space and the moon is dirt. The earth’s balance shifts; a new sense of anticipation and disruption in earth’s natural cycles stirs the world - massive meteorological time contracted and newly written; a startling wildness is now familiar. Tungsten(artery) centers on Cora, a contemporary Persephone, whose existential dilemma forms the center of the play. Half-asleep on a commuter train entering New York City, Cora struggles to remember where she is coming from, and where she is going. Tungsten (artery) imagines Cora’s search for meaning, as she grapples with her responsibilities, her existential exhaustion, and the increasingly unfamiliar world of the upper air. *****ALL PERFORMANCES AT THE GETYY VILLA AUDITORIUM***** Performed by: Molly Allis, Jenny Greer, Youssif Kamal, Moira MacDonald, Alexis Macnab Erin O’Donnell, Whitney Rodriguez, Jessica Rosilyn, Hilario Saavedra Scene Design: Shannon Scrofano Lighting Design: Ellie Rabinowitz Video Design: Carole Kim Sound Design: Colbert Davis Costume Design: Sandra Burns and Sarah Brown Associate Sound Design: John Eagle Additional Music: Cassia Streb Puppet Design: Janie Geiser Films: Janie Geiser Production Stage Manager: Cameron Squire Producer: Miranda Wright Tungsten (artery) is supported, in part, through a Getty Villa Theater Lab Residency and a Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant. https://www.automatala.org/2015-stop-motion-and-cut-paper-animation-intensive-maya-erdelyi daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601238361924-OVYMARRUZS8P5O5PLIDR/Maya+Erdelyi.jpg 2015: Stop Motion and Cut Paper Animation Intensive, Maya Erdelyi https://www.automatala.org/2015-storytelling-toys-kaleidoscopes-mobiles-camera-obscura-by-alexis-macnab daily 0.75 2021-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601238675686-CZ7MN4CUQ94ROK64K4PG/Alexis+MacNab.jpeg 2015: Storytelling Toys - Kaleidoscopes, Mobiles & Camera Obscura by Alexis MacNab https://alexismacnab.com/ https://www.automatala.org/2015-bear-club-ep-release-show daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601239098512-U4GP27O2C2ZF2TYYHFH9/BEAR+CLUB.jpg 2015: BEAR CLUB EP Release Show JOIN US for a night of acoustic folk music by Bear Club with special guests Luke Janela & Emily Lacy. BEAR CLUB Molly Allis and Jenica Anderson formed Bear Club while both attending California Institute of the Arts' MFA Music program. They are an indie-folk duo based in Los Angeles, creating sonic dreamscapes that suspend the listener in a series of tender lullabies. www.soundcloud.com/bear-cub-in-a-bear-club LUKE JANELA Luke Janela is a cellist/singer/guitarist/songwriter from California. He lays lush foundations of sound, utilizing his cello and guitar in tandem with his uniquely passionate vocals. The music is urgent and innovative, moving through genres and visuals like a big river. www.lukejanela.net EMILY LACY Emily Lacy is a folk and electronic sound artist generating works in music, film, and other media. She has performed in exhibitions at PS1 MOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and LACMA, in addition to various DIY spaces all throughout America. She is based in Los Angeles. www.emilylacy.net Tickets: $10 (All seats are general admission) https://www.automatala.org/2015-traveling-light-new-films-by-laura-heit daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://www.automatala.org/2015-introduction-to-peephole-cinema daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601240293576-O4H0KTA9OT5XT269CR1V/Peephole+Cinema.png 2015: Introduction to PEEPHOLE CINEMA Introducing: PEEPHOLE CINEMA at AUTOMATA Visit PEEPHOLE CINEMA, a new permanent screening site at Automata, available for viewing 24 hours a day. Peephole Cinema, conceived and curated by Laurie O'Brien and Allison de Fren, is located in the alley behind Automata, to the left of our back door, between North Hill Street and Chung King Road. https://www.automatala.org/2015-selfie-bar-baxley-andresen-erin-odonnell daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601240879876-D8S3W59QFSPAYV72JI3B/image-asset.png 2015: Selfie Bar, Baxley Andresen, Erin O'Donnell For the last Chinatown Summer Nights of 2015, Automata changes into an installation designed for viewership interaction and photo taking. Bring friends, pose within the pieces and creatively interact with the space! https://www.automatala.org/2015-fancy-feast-comedy-hosted-by-tricia-traci-and-rebecca-leib daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601241151893-YPCCHP0R2TGY2RY8GPKV/Fancy+Feast+Comedy+2015.jpg 2015: FANCY FEAST COMEDY Hosted by Tricia Traci and Rebecca Leib COMEDIANS & ARTISTS: Josh Fadem Ronnie Karam John Hogan Betsy Salkind Lizzy Cooperman Melissa Villasenior AND MORE! Rebecca Leib is an artist and comedian with a BFA in Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a MFA in Writing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She is an alumni of The Second City Conservatory In Chicago, IO West and UCB-LA. Her comedy and writing has been featured on NBC's Hollywood Game Night, Disney's Win, Lose Or Draw, UCB-LA, Defy Media, Reductress, Huffington Post, Art Ltd, Artillery and Beautiful/Decay. Tricia Traci is a filmmaker, artist, and comedian. She has a BFA in filmmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA from Montana. She's performed mainstage and is an alumni of UCB-LA and IO West. She's currently a stand up and storyteller. She's received film festival awards for her experimental comedic narratives and also her cinematography work. They can be seen all over Earth and internet. She's crafted videos and animations for VH1, Samsung, Billboards, Fender, ABC, Fox, NBC, Yahoo, pop star types, and of course Smokey Bear. https://www.automatala.org/2015-general-manifest-by-braden-diotte daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601241373442-LWHRKHMCSEX2IZSCVWGT/General+Manifest+by+Braden+Diotte.jpg 2015: General Manifest by Braden Diotte Composer Braden Diotte brings the second of two Southern California performances of music inspired by two decades of hopping freight trains throughout the American west. Braden Diotte will be joined by percussionists Michael Yr. Jeannouxa Day and Jenica Anderson, as well as vocalist Dr. Andrea Young. Ulrich Krieger will perform the role of the orator. About General Manifest: “The inspiration behind General Manifest came two-fold. Aesthetically, I’d wanted to create a piece to pay tribute to the transitory-yet-awe-inspiring music that I’ve witnessed emanating from the underbelly of thousands of tons of rolling stock on occasion over a twenty-year span in which I was taking pleasure in riding freight trains about the American west. At the same time, I also wanted to create a piece based around the broader notion of freedom – a term that I feel has garnered negative connotations since the events of the recent turn of the century. Where these concepts intersect, a philosophy exists that’s as personal as it is political, as anarchistic as it is patriotic, and as natural as it is spiritual. I chose to refrain from attaching a specific manifesto to the piece, and opted instead to allow it to serve as a vehicle for ruminations on the topic by a larger community, in hopes that the message will remain responsive and tethered to the state of affairs of any given “present” and place.” – Braden Diotte Composer and multi-instrumentalist Braden Diotte is a native Californian, born in 1975. As a composer, his works include: General Manifest (2013; for ensemble) Saturnine (2010; for video & amplification installation) Experiments for Radio (2006; for radio & solo performer) As a multi-instrumentalist, he has performed in: Luciano Chessa’s Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners (2013; various intonarumori) Pinback (2008-2011; keyboard, electric bass & guitar) Glenn Branca’s Symphony No.13: Hallucination City (2008; electric bass) Tarantula Hawk (1998-2005; electric bass & keyboard) Braden Diotte earned his MFA in Experimental Sound Practices from the California Institute of the Arts, and holds undergraduate degrees in Cognitive Science, Computer Music and Electronic Technology. https://www.automatala.org/2015-fright-privilege-john-p-hogan daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1602106055633-ACYRB054TA8OVNSY4860/frightprivilege.jpg 2015: Fright Privilege John P. Hogan Fright Privilege is a satirical multimedia Haunted (Open) House. Intimate walk-throughs led by “Dakota”, a real estate agent eager to guide you through a horror show of neurotic fears plaguing progressive-minded urbanites, including the looming specter of Decreased Property Values Due To Neighborhood Disrepair, falling victim to Unfair Characterizations On The Internet, losing the White Demographic Majority, consuming Genetically Modified Vegetables, and actually having to confront an angry and articulate Displaced Former Tenant. Groups of 10 people will enter each hour, for this intimate walk-through performance. Cast includes: Sommer Branham, Jessica Jean Jardine, Jason Underhill, Peter De Remier and more, along with video art by Trulee Hall, and a special performance by Raquel Bell. https://www.automatala.org/2015-hinterlands-by-gina-marie-napolitan daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://www.automatala.org/2015-readers-chorus_11-varied-new-works-composed-by-our-members-and-a-short-poem-by-robert-lax daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://www.automatala.org/2015-29-cross-examinations-by-maureen-selwood daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601243338610-QPHKFNK2RTFR44799LAW/Screen+Shot+2020-09-27+at+2.48.25+PM.png 2015: 29 Cross Examinations by Maureen Selwood In 29 Cross Examinations, filmmaker and installation artist Maureen Selwood moves into new territory with a contemporary meditation on the trial of Joan of Arc. Through live performance, film clips, and transcripts from the actual trial, Selwood cracks open a new perspective on this much mythologized folk hero. 29 Cross Examinations probes the connections between religious fervor and sexual identity, and plays with the bizarre intimacy of the interrogation relationship. Through the actual text of the inquisition, we meet the real Joan – yet, as Joan herself says, “One does not allow the whole truth to be told.” Written and Directed by Maureen Selwood Performed by K. Bradford and Nathan Nonhof Assistant Director: Tempe Hale Digital Projections by Jeremy Glaholt Movement Director: Sarah McCarron Lighting Designer: R. S. Buck Animation by Maureen Selwood and Sunny Liang Sculptures courtesy of Megan Cotts https://www.automatala.org/2015-sparkleblobs-holidays-on-icing-a-christmas-cookie-crumble daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601243513319-8TMCBI2681O7T6IL6JLD/SparkleBlob%27s+HOLIDAYS+ON+ICING-+A+CHRISTMAS+COOKIE+CRUMBLE%21.jpg 2015: SparkleBlob's HOLIDAYS ON ICING: A CHRISTMAS COOKIE CRUMBLE! The magic of Christmas comes alive with pushing and shoving! Join Monica, Tree and Silver Lake’s Most Well-Adjusted Family as they stress to impress for hometown holidays in Los Angeles. LA is known for it’s cutthroat ways, it’s secret societies, it’s titanic forces of darkness surrounding the heartfelt traditions of seasonal baking, shopping, and fighting over the red color of coffee cups. Will our close knit group of ragtag family and friends succumb to the conspiracy? Will there be warmth, tragedy or drama? Will there be potatoes, hot air balloons, or elves? Yes Virginia, there will be all of those things, and more. https://www.automatala.org/2016-luke-martin-and-aaron-bresley-an-evening-of-new-works-for-string-quartet daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601243865022-E5C05UETJ66NWSMMC1N2/Luke+Martin%2C+Aaron+Bresley_String+Quartets.jpg 2016: Luke Martin and Aaron Bresley
 An Evening of New Works for String Quartet This program features five new works for string quartet, composed by Luke Martin and Aaron Foster Bresley. Performed by Luigi Polcari, Jonathan Tang, Yvette Holzwarth, and Joy Yi, the pieces explore the use of graphic scores, poetry, vocalization, noise, and alternate tuning systems. The first half of the concert will be a premiere of a new, long-form work by Aaron Foster Bresley. Titled “barrier – bend/erect,” the piece is based on motion void of direction and destination. The four performers are posited as a circuit of unique and precise states, and given music through which they may become music(al). Following this, the second half of the concert will feature four shorter graphic score string quartets, by Luke Martin. These pieces are from his new CD (to be released on the FWD: rcrds label in December 2015), “residues.” The works seeks to explore the uncertain relational space between subjects and everyday objects existing as residue due to their leftover or forgotten status. In this space, there can be a dissolving of that subject-object relationship, creating a sort of faded, yet vibrant mingling; a potential for new combinations, momentary sparks, and the slippage of selves. Luke Martin is an experimental composer, musician, and poet currently living in valencia, CA. his work focuses on the concepts of liminality, neutrality, and fragility, often seeking to explore the listener/performer's limits of perception. in particular, he is interested in the role of silence both in and out of music, and how to increase the listener, composer, and performer's consideration of silence. he is currently in his last semester of the MFA music composition program at CalArts. Aaron Foster Bresley composes, programs, and sometimes dabbles in performing. he enjoys having his birthday on an holiday weekend. he has probably not yet met you, but he hopes to. aaron always asks celebrities what flavour of jello they would be. aaron currently lives in new york city, and is the east-coast half of the experimental music label FWD: rcrds. he thinks he would probably be lime. he has never learned to do a handstand or to juggle. many of these are things that belong in bios. aaron is lucky to spend his time pursuing things that do, and most of it doing things that do not. https://www.automatala.org/2016-pleats-of-matter-the-films-of-blake-williams daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601244300281-E96PQCHFBAE0S95ZL1XT/Blake+Williams+Pleats+of+Matter.jpg 2016: Pleats of Matter: The Films of Blake Williams One of North America's most exciting young filmmakers, Toronto's Blake Williams has spent the past few years experimenting with anaglyph 3D technology, emerging with a series of films that formally investigate a variety of otherwise quotidian spaces and landscapes by casually unlocking their nascent art-historical dimensions. At once playfully conceptual and viscerally charged, his films merge the aesthetics of the digital age with the tools of classic optical technologies, playing light, shadow, and other natural phenomenon off one another in hyper-sensory displays of depth and color. His two latest works, Red Capriccio (2014) and Something Horizontal (2015), represent the pinnacle this approach to date, and together have travelled to the Toronto, New York, and Oberhausen Film Festivals. Join us as we welcome Blake Williams for the first presentation of his work in Los Angeles, with a two-part program dedicated to his work in the realms of both two and three dimensional space. https://www.automatala.org/2016-southland-ensemble-plays-earle-brown daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://www.automatala.org/2016-automata-karaoke-night-puppet-optional daily 0.75 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601244961485-AJ464R323YN9N7HSSXPO/Automata+Karaoke+Optional+2016.jpg 2016: Automata Karaoke Night: Puppet Optional Automata's first ever karaoke night! Come on down and show us what you've got. OR... if you're shy bring a puppet and let it do the job. Hosted by Automata favorites Moira MacDonald and Molly Allis. Puppets are optional but.... there will be a craft table available for on-the-spot puppet making. https://www.automatala.org/2016-into-the-rice-fields-by-yulya-dukhovny daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601250996474-UKL8D7OH1JZX7ARIRZHW/Into+the+Rice+Fields+by+Yulya+Dukhovny+.jpg 2016: Into the Rice Fields by Yulya Dukhovny A storytelling using drawings, paper dioramas and movable pictures on a toy theater scale, with physical theater techniques. An original play is inspired by the work of two extraordinary philosophers and "travelers in time": Lafcadio Hearn, writer(1850 - 1904) and Tōru Takemitsu, composer (1930 – 1996). https://www.automatala.org/2016-pinhole-camera-workshop-robin-miller-and-alexis-macnab daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601251400261-199SWYSK9RY11JT3JOYP/Pinhole+Camera+Workshop+with+Robin+Miller+and+Alexis+Macnab+.jpg 2016: Pinhole Camera Workshop, Robin Miller and Alexis MacNab The magic of pinhole photography transforms a paint can (or any other light-safe container) into a camera. The device is easy to make and the images you capture are very special frozen-in-time moments.This two-part workshop will take you step-by-step through the process of pinhole photography including capturing images on photopaper, developing your photographs, and creating your own pinhole camera. Saturday 11am-2 pm and Sunday 2-5pm https://www.automatala.org/2016-fatal-by-dorothy-dubrule daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601251558685-EOJ2VMMYYS4WIMB06WOC/Fatal+DOROTHY+DUBRULE.jpg 2016: Fatal by DOROTHY DUBRULE Fatal is an evening-length work sourcing movement and text from the 1987 film Fatal Attraction to trace an arc from desire to aggression through the bodies of six diversely trained performers. Performances by Anton Lieberman, Daeun Jung, Devika Wickremesinghe, Donel Williams, Erin Schneider, and Jason Black Sculptures by Jared Dyer Live score composed and performed by Gabriel Slavitt https://www.automatala.org/2016-ulrich-krieger-3-evenings-of-new-work daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601252020363-5T6XEZF0ARKWCK4W31YZ/Ulrich+Krieger+3+Evenings+of+New+Work.jpg 2016: Ulrich Krieger: 3 Evenings of New Work Automata presents three evenings of new work by Ulrich Krieger, including several world premieres. Krieger is an internationally recognized saxophone player and composer. He is known for his original, innovative contemporary composed and free improvised music. His recent focus lies in the experimental fields and fringes of contemporary Pop culture: somewhere in the limbo between Noise and Heavy Metal, Ambient and Silence. Each Evening is a unique show ALL SHOWS AT 8PM April 22: Universe Series 1&2 Record release concert April 23: Universe Series 3&4 Premiere! April 24: Blood Oath Official Premiere of Krieger's new experimental noise metal band: Ulrich Krieger, Max Kutner, Linda Lockwood, Ness Morris, and Josh Carro Ulrich Krieger is a composer, performer, improviser and experimental rock musician. His main instruments are saxophones, clarinets, didjeridu and electronics. He calls his style of playing ‘acoustic electronics,’ using sounds, that appear to be electronic, but are produced on acoustic instruments and then sometimes electronically treated, blurring the borders between the fields. Krieger transcribed Lou Reed's (in)famous Metal Machine Music for chamber ensemble and works with groups like Text of Light (with Lee Ranaldo) and zerfall–gebiete (with Thomas Koner). Born 1962, in Freiburg, Germany, he lived in Berlin from 1983-2007 with longer residencies in the USA and Italy from 1991-97. In September 2007 he moved to California, where he is professor for composition and experimental sound practice at California Institute of the Arts. Krieger has worked with Lou Reed, Lee Ranaldo, Phill Niblock, David First, Thomas Köner, Alan Licht, Michiko Hirayama, Witold Szalonek, Mario Bertoncini, Miriam Marbe, Seth Josel, Zbigniew Karkowski, Merzbow, zeitkratzer and many others performing in Europe, North-America, Asia and Australia. His works are being performed by the California EAR Unit, zeitkratzer, KontraTrio, Soldier String Quartet, Wandelweiser Ensemble, and many others. He has released over 50 CDs of his original compositions, improvisations, with his groups and as a collaborator with many musicians. https://www.automatala.org/2016-emily-lacy-singing-resistance daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2016-john-eagle-plays-tom-johnsons-nine-bells daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2016-luke-martin-andrew-young_two-overlapping-works daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601252709438-AT9DAQYKZJT3E0NCU91L/Andy+Young+Luke+Martin+June+2016.jpg 2016: Luke Martin, Andrew Young_Two Overlapping Works Two overlapping works. Part one is an experiment in relationships, memory, representation and continuity. A small ensemble of performers will begin playing one piece, then two at once, and finally one piece again. Part two is an improv with noise group sinecure (Andrew Young, Luke Martin, Ben Levinson), exploring sound through no-input feedback, turntables, and laptop performance… Andrew Young is a composer, improviser, performer, coffee drinker, and open-source enthusiast. He is the founder of the Rise Above Trio, a co-founder of Yawn Tapes, and a co-director of the Wulf. His work with sound ranges in style from sparse, reduced, structured music to searing, improvised, harsh noise. His compositions often utilize algorithmic procedures, indirect notation, imitative polyphony, field recordings, instrumental noise and some notion of choice. https://soundcloud.com/andrewyoung1991/sets/recent-noise Luke Martin is an experimental composer, musician, and poet, living in Valencia, CA. He received his M.F.A. in Music Composition, studying with Michael Pisaro, from California Institute of the Arts in 2016 and his B.A. in Music and English from Colby College in 2014. His artistic practice is centered on an exploration of silence, neutrality, and blandness in music, and is influenced by composers/thinkers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Alvin Lucier, Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and the Wandelweiser Group. He is currently engaged in an exploration of both the possibilities of notating/performing silence and of the social potential within silence. https://soundcloud.com/luke-martin-composer/ http://www.lukecmartin.com/ https://www.automatala.org/2016-tim-eriksen-magic-lantern daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601253198319-M3CG5F2QP13ZDTHGI893/Tim+Eriksen+Magic+Lantern.jpg 2016: Tim Eriksen Magic Lantern Tim Eriksen, multi-instrumentalist, “one of the best singers in music” (T-Bone Burnett) and three time GRAMMY nominee presents a solo performance of original music, traditional Americana and music from his world travels, joined by painter/projectionist Susan Brearey in selections from their multimedia collaboration. The Magic Lantern: A mysterious trunk found in a Yankee attic, full of leatherbound tunebooks, letters, musical instruments, 8 track tapes, a handwritten sheaf of ballads, a machete and even an old “magic lantern:” an ancient projector, with a box of painted glass slides. Tim Eriksen and painter Susan Brearey take you to Pumpkintown, revealing the mysteries of the trunk and the curious multicultural history of the village itself, through songs, stories and magic lantern projections. Tim Eriksen is "widely regarded as the best ballad singer of his generation" (BBC Radio). He combines hair-raising vocals with savvy arrangements for fiddle, banjo, guitar and bajo sexto, transforming American tradition with a "northern roots" sound that embraces old New England murder ballads, “shape-note” gospel and haunted originals alongside Southern Appalachian and Irish songs. Tim's latest solo album "Northern Roots Live in Namest" (Indies Scope 2009) celebrates the power of this music in concert. Considered "among the world's finest folk practitioners" (Toronto Star) for his expertise in traditional song, Tim is also known for his own compositions - “strange and original works” (NetRhythmsUK) with a “rare sense of purpose” (Q Magazine) that have been included in films like the Billy Bob Thornton vehicle Chrystal and the upcoming feature documentary Behold the Earth. Eriksen's other notable work has included extensive contributions to Anthony Minghella’s 2004 Oscar-winning film Cold Mountain as well as collaborations ranging from hardcore punk and Bosnian pop to symphony orchestra and the 2009 Grammy-nominated album Across the Divide with Afro-Cuban world-jazz phenomenon Omar Sosa. The erstwhile frontman of the prophetic groups Cordelia's Dad ("folk-noise"), Northampton Harmony (shape-note quartet) and Zabe i Babe (Bosnian folk and pop), Tim Eriksen is the only musician to have shared the stage with both Kurt Cobain and Doc Watson (not to mention Jack White and Ralph Stanley), and his media appearances have ranged from Prairie Home Companion to the Academy Awards. Having graduated from early shows at punk mecca CBGB, Tim’s more recent performances have included his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in Evan Chambers' symphonic work "The Old Burying Ground" and two week-long stints at the Blue Note Jazz Club with Omar Sosa. In the studio, he has worked with producers including Joe Boyd, T-Bone Burnett and Steve Albini. http://www.timeriksenmusic.com/about.html Susan Brearey is a painter known for her unique, iconic depiction of animals. In Brearey’s works, totemic images take the place of the photorealistic visual details found in some other works of wildlife art. Animals become rudimentary and almost featureless, set against abstract surfaces. Brearey’s evocative approach was inspired in large part by the cave paintings at Lascaux, France. Brearey first saw the paintings in the mid-1980s as a college student, an experience that turned her into a serious painter. Brearey’s paintings have been the subject of numerous solo exhibits in Seattle, Washington; West Bretton, England, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Martha’s Vineyard; Orlando, Florida; and Providence, Rhode Island, among other places. Her works have also been numerous group exhibits, including Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art and the Clarke Galleries’ IV Centuries of Birds in Painting, Sculpture, and Fine Prints. Her works are in the collections of Nashville, Tennessee’s Cheekwood Museum of Art; the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont; the Putney School, Putney, Vermont; the Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Meditech Corporation, Westwood, Massachusetts. In 1993, Brearey won the Cheekwood National Contemporary Painting Competition. https://www.automatala.org/2016-peephole-cinema-two-new-films daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601253462348-95S7ZQJGIIB6W9BKJDB8/2+new+films+PEEPHOLE+CINEMA.jpg 2016: Peephole CINEMA: TWO NEW FILMS Peephole Cinema LA is part of a “miniature cinema" project created by Brooklyn-based artist Laurie O’Brien, with satellite projects in three cities: San Francisco, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Peephole Cinema at Automata was developed in collaboration with LA-based filmmaker and scholar Allison de Fren, and opened in 2014. It is located in the alley behind Automata, to the left of our back door, between North Hill Street and Chung King Road. http://www.peepholecinema.com/peephole-cinema-los-angeles-2/ https://www.automatala.org/2016-brian-getnick-moonchops daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601253981037-6S1Z55LN98P6DC2OUD75/Moonchops+Brian+Getnick.jpg 2016: Brian Getnick / Moonchops Evoking a moonlit forest, MOONCHOPS draws its performative and visual materials from Brian Getnick’s body of writing about a rural town and its inhabitants, living and dead. In this concrete fantasy for the theater, Getnick inhabits a succession of characters who lead viewers deeper and deeper into the winter woods, toward the heart of his story. PERFORMANCES: 9/22, 9/23, 9/24 https://www.automatala.org/2016-whyteberg-as-occurred-as-recalled daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2016-john-eagle-janie-geiser-cassia-streb-sound-house daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2016-dada-divas daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2015-border-labslaboratorios-fronterizos daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1602107728903-197LJRZV4MLH0ZA5AEAG/border+labs+photo+1+2016.jpg 2015: BORDER LABS/LABORATORIOS FRONTERIZOS Join us for the initial exchange and be part of conversations on the future. BORDER LABS/LABORATORIOS FRONTERIZOS is working with Antena Los Ángeles (Jen Hofer, Miguel Morales Cruz, and Ana Paula Noguez) to think through how to create bilingual spaces for performance and conversation. For this initial experiment, the conversation and a portion of the performances will be interpreted. https://www.automatala.org/2017-amy-golden-and-luke-martin daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601258663411-635CJVYM0MVQZQWJA3XA/Amy+Golden+and+Luke+Martin+%40+Automata.jpg 2017: Amy Golden and Luke Martin Amy and Luke will present two new works for ensemble(s), interspersed together, followed by a duo improvisation. Luke Martin: 'other-texts (2 / WRMTH-SCRM)' Amy Golden: 'new work' Amy & Luke: improvisation Performing: Iris Sidikman (vc), Patrick Behnke (vla), Jonathan Tang (vln), Rachel Iba (vln), Amy Golden (voice), Kathryn Shuman (voice), Argenta Walther (voice), and Luke Martin (reader, electronics). Luke is on tour in Boston, NYC, and LA. This concert kicks off a long stint in LA (till the 21st). See other concerts here: http://www.lukecmartin.com/tour.html Amy Golden is a composer, sound artist, vocalist, and occasional sculptor based in Los Angeles. She creates works for acoustic instruments, voice, fixed media, and non-instruments, as well as sound and sculptural installations and performance art with a special focus on the relationship between sound and object, definitions of texture, and the female experience. Luke Martin is an experimental composer, performer, and poet, living in Boston, MA. His artistic practice is centered on an exploration of silence, blandness, and community in music, and is influenced by composers/thinkers such as John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Samuel Beckett, and the Wandelweiser Group. He is currently engaged in an exploration of both the possibilities of notating/performing silence and of the social potential within silence. https://www.automatala.org/2017-jackson-mac-low-southland-ensemble daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2017-imagined-elasticities-sara-debevec daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601259068533-3KA75RO2T3OGD0XPG5X5/IMAGINED+ELASTICITIES.jpeg 2017: IMAGINED ELASTICITIES Sara Debevec Imagined Elasticitiesis an evening of experimental music, avant-garde cabaret and performance art, curated by artist and writer Sara Debevec. The concert and performance showcase celebrates original music and performance by artists from LA to New York. Experience the sounds of cello, violin, guitar and drums in three separate acts which will be intertwined with performance art and spoken word. Imagined Elasticities brings together Valerie Kuehne and the Wasps Nests, Copán and Rachel Mason for one night only at Automata's Chinatown space. The evening challenges the boundaries of performance art and music creating an immersive space of collateral reflection. https://www.automatala.org/2017-christine-tavolacci-ritual-for-three daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2017-odeya-nini-a-solo-voice daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2017-dr-residency-jay-carlon-lindsey-lollie daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601277938397-9BAI80PRN0HZO3WT65ZP/Jay+Carlon%2C+Lindsey+Lollie_D%2BR+Residency%231.jpg 2017: D+R Residency#!, Jay Carlon + Lindsey Lollie CREATIVE TEAM Jay Carlon + Lindsey Lollie: Directors Samantha Mohr: Dancer Young Tseng Wong: Corporeal Mime Artist Jimmy Cabrera: Psychiatric Professional & Advisor RESIDENCY OPEN STUIDO Saturday, March 11 at 6pm and 8pm Join us for one of two in-progress showings, and become a part of Carlon + Lollie’s process of developing this new work of immersive dance theater. Open Studio allows artists to test ideas, and audiences an opportunity gain insight into, and inform, artistic process. Open Studio events are free (or contribute in support of the program). ABOUT THE RESIDENCY The collaborative team of Jay Carlon and Lindsey Lollie will be in residence developing a new work of dance theater that seeks to push physical and emotional boundaries by integrating elements of exhaustion, violence, and memory. The duo began working together in 2015, after having individually experienced about 3 years of creative hiatus due to experiences with loss and depression. For this new project, they examine how physical narrative can drive an immersive experience that examines the disorienting characteristics of PTSD, sleep paralysis, auditory hallucinations, dementia, and panic attacks. Their process will include professional psychiatric Jimmy Cabrera to advise on current mental health research. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Carlon + Lollie is a collaborative duo formed by movement artists Jay Carlon and Lindsey Lollie. They employ their identities as multicultural millennials to deepen their connection to heritage and ancestry—Lollie is half African-American and first-generation Mexican-American; Jay Carlon is first-generation Filipino-American and child of an agricultural migrant family. Through immersive, transformative and extremely physical dance theatre, they strive to incite thoughtful provocation of socio-political issues surrounding identity, race, gender, mental health and sexuality. Based in Los Angeles, the met as colleagues at the Renaissance Arts Academy, where they currently teach contemporary dance, and have joined their shared interests in exploring their collective and individual identities. Individually, they have presented work at LA Dance Festival, HomeLA, Works in the Works (Bay Area, CA), and Electric Lodge. Collectively, Carlon + Lollie have performed at Lincoln Center, REDCAT, 92nd Y and The CURRENT SESSIONS. https://www.automatala.org/2017-poor-dog-group-you-got-the-best-feeling-new-video-works-by-poor-dog-group daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601278292466-GL0VZV3YZXINRDGWDZBQ/POOR+DOG+GROUP%E2%80%A8YOU+GOT+THE+BEST+FEELING-%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8New+Video+Works+by+Poor+Dog+Group+.jpg 2017: POOR DOG GROUP
YOU GOT THE BEST FEELING:

New Video Works by Poor Dog Group The "frenetic and provacative" (---LA Times) LA performance collective screens a series of new video shorts. https://www.automatala.org/2017-neil-rolnick-new-music-from-old-music daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601278782656-LIR74S28LW6S9KBNFJPP/Neil+Rolnick_New+Music+from+Old+Music.jpg 2017: NEIL ROLNICK

New Music from Old Music Composer Neil Rolnick will perform an evening of compositions for solo laptop computer. The concert will include Rolnick’s pieces from the early days of sampling technology, in the late 1980s, when he first explored what are now called “mashups” of existing music to create new works. It will also include some of his most recent works, which reconsider this approach to composing in the light of 30 years of technological development and the revolution in thinking about sampling. https://www.automatala.org/2017-josiane-keller-hotel-surrogates daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601279245816-9REXG43RLQVLCN4RAL6L/Josiane+Keller+Hotel+Surrogates.jpg 2017: Josiane Keller - Hotel - Surrogates ホテル-Hotel (reads: “hotel – hotel”): an ongoing long-term project started in Jan 2016, using lens-based images (currently over 1000+) of hand-made, small-scale puppets. The underlying narrative is of a fictive long-term residency hotel and its tenants, depicted in casual intimate snap-shots; The project is inspired by Nan Goldin’s “Ballad of Sexual Dependency”, Larry Clark’s “Tulsa”, Peter Hujar, the HOTEL CHELSEA and others, investigating the human sense of seeing and visual memory, the use of photographs as well as puppets as surrogates, the effect of “evidence” a camera adds to an image, and fetishism around images depicting the intimate life of marginalized people. The project has been so far shown in exhibitions in Tokyo and Budapest as photo-installation of small scale prints, this time at Automata it will be shown for the first time as live slide show. Josiane Keller is an Austrian-German visual artist currently dividing her time between LA and Japan, working with lens-based images of hand-made small-scale puppets. After studying ceramics, painting and dance and working as a puppeteer, ceramicist, painter and stage photographer she developed this particular style of work that combines all her interests and is underlying investigations of the human sense of seeing, visual memory, visual communication, materialism, loss and group behavior as well as specifically traditional and contemporary construction and purpose of puppets. Keller started working in this technique since a 2012 long-distance collaboration with a group of street youth from Portland, OR, in which the participants gave anonymous interviews inclusive written descriptions of themselves which were turned into small sale-scale figurines and then photographed (“Each reflection of myself echoes a different emotion at me”); after this project she kept working in this style and developed the originally all-clay figures eventually into more expressionistic puppets with simple joints, costumes and hair. She has created various long term projects of series of still as well as moving images and collaborated with singers, musicians, film makers, puppeteers and writers; her work has been exhibited and won awards in the US and internationally. www.josianekeller.com https://www.automatala.org/2017-vocatrix-songs-of-hildegard-von-bingen daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2017-daniel-corral-refractions-album-release-show daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601279976320-BDWUBMYEJG0YXLIJU31A/Daniel+Corral+Refractions.jpg 2017: Daniel Corral Refractions Album Release Show Join us at Automata to celebrate Los Angeles composer DANIEL CORRAL's new album REFRACTIONS, which is being released by Populist Records! Refractions will be performed in it’s entirety, and there will be a short opening duo set by vocalist/violinist Rahman Baranghoori and violinist Timothy Maloof. Refractions is a 44 minute electro-acoustic chamber piece that expands on Corral's 10 years of exploring the sonic and sculptural possibilities of music boxes. Composed for string quartet, electric guitar, and electronically processed music box, Refractions combines ethereal ambient electronics with contemplative acoustic timbres. Corral will be joined by guitarist Jeremy Kerner and the Koan Quartet. Rahman Baranghoori (vocals and violin) and Timothy Maloof (violin) have been friends and colleagues since 2004, performing in many ensembles and bands together. They will be performing improvisations and songs based on Persian Mugam and Arabic Maqamat (modes). Daniel Corral is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. Currently living in Los Angeles, his unique voice finds outlet in accordion orchestras, puppet operas, handmade music boxes, microtonal electronics, site-specific installations, chamber music, post-punk opera, and inter-disciplinary collaborations. Corral’s music has been commissioned and presented by venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Joe’s Pub NYC, REDCAT, Reykjavik Harpa Concert Hall, HERE Arts Center, Miami Light Project, Operadagen Rotterdam, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, USC’s Thornton School of Music, and others. Corral is composer and keyboardist for Timur and The Dime Museum and director of experimental accordion orchestra Free Reed Conspiracy. Corral also collaborated with numerous visual and performing artists including Anne LeBaron, Vicki Ray, Charles Gaines, Stephen Prina, Wild Up, The Industry, California EAR Unit. Corral is currently composition faculty at Calarts. His first solo album, Diamond Pulses, was released on Orenda Records 2015. https://www.automatala.org/2017-california-dreaming daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601280275471-WLUOCPN7V0FUN6SBMV4P/California+Dreama.jpg 2017: CALIFORNIA DREAMING: A night of sonic hallucinations/alternative realities. Vienna-based La Musa (Bernadette Zeilinger and Diego Mune) crosses the Atlantic for a US cross-country performance as a trio with San-Diego based cellist T.J. Borden that will bring them to Automata and mythic Southern California. Aiding them in their performance at Automata will be a variety of treasures: Burnt Dot, a duo featuring Sarah Belle Reid (trumpet/electronics) and Ryan Gaston (modular synth) Matt Barbier, LA trombone/euphonium player Casey Anderson and San Diego-based Steven Flato performing a duo piece, foreshadowing a future release on Erstwhile Records. https://www.automatala.org/2017-degenerate-art-ensemble daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601280553267-88HEZ3LM5S8FCIQ8PH50/Degenerate+Art+Ensemble+Diphylleia+Grayi.jpg 2017: Degenerate Art Ensemble Diphylleia Grayi (Skeleton Key) is a fantastical, semi-autobiographical exploration of a creative person’s struggle with identity, depression and and the awakening of feminine power where healing and transformation are fueled by the secret medicine of fairy tales. The work is an immersive stage performance weaving together live music and song, visceral solo dance and storytelling ritual. Degenerate Art Ensemble’s work has always offered an invitation to the audience to commit to stepping more deeply into life. Skeleton Flower is an immersive experience, providing an exhilarating rehearsal for the living of a full and creative life, by giving the audience opportunities to share their voice, take part in ritual, be an active part of the performance, see things from new perspectives, and take risks. Unlike the large scale performances the ensemble has undertaken in the past few years at venues such as the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, the Baryshnikov Center in New York and REDCAT, on this tour the duo will be performing the live music, dance and song elements in rare, raw and intimate performance settings. Degenerate Art Ensemble has shown their work throughout the US and Europe known for their large scale dance and theater projects, concerts, site-transforming spectacles and ongoing public experimentation. Recent highlights of the group's work include a major exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in 2011, was commissioned by director Robert Wilson to interpret his work Einstein on the Beach in 2012 and collaborated with the Kronos Quartet in 2013. Also in 2012 Degenerate Art Ensemble was commissioned by the city of Seattle to create a massive site specific work Underbelly with Olson Kundig Architects to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair. The group’s most recent work Predator Songstress premiered at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco in 2015 followed by Seattle and will show in New York in November of 2017. In December of 2016 DAE teamed up with Czech rock legends Uz Jsme Doma for an epic orchestral work inspired by the music of Uz Jsme Doma and the music of Degenerate Art Ensemble for a concert at the Archa Theatre in Prague followed by a performances on the US West Coast in 2018. The group is currently in the early stages of the creation of their first Virtual Reality film. https://www.automatala.org/2017-southland-ensemble-werderfrey daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601280835434-RGRZVZMHVC8X5WIKBLID/Southland+Ensemble+Werder+%3A+Frey.jpg 2017: Southland Ensemble Werder/Frey Southland Ensemble begins its fifth season with a program of music by Swiss Wandelweiser composers Manfred Werder and Jürg Frey. The program includes a selection from Werder’s stück 1998, a 4000 page score in which each page may only be performed once, and Frey’s delicately focused String Quartet No.3. Featuring: String Quartet No. 3 – Jürg Frey stück 1998 – Manfred Werder 60 Pieces of Sound – Jürg Frey. für sich, klar und sachlick. einfach. / to itself, clear and objective. simple. - Manfred Werder, stück 1998 The music is silent, but not absent. It is not speechless, and it also does not move with virtuosity bordering on silence. The music gets its vitality and its radiance, not from gesture and figuration, but in quiet presence – everything is there: colours, sensations, shadows, durations. - Jürg Frey https://www.automatala.org/2017-alan-jennings-unnatural-selection daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601281220879-FH6K6ISAWIYUG60JHGWX/Unnatural-Selection_Alan+Jennings.jpg 2017: Alan Jennings Unnatural Selection UNNATURAL SELECTION is a look at contemporary independent animation from around the world. These films unveil unique nebulas of strange laws and internal logic - Recent work in 2D animation, cut outs, and puppet animation from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Russia, Finland and more. A brand new digital transfer of Amy Lockhart's 16mm film Walk for Walk will be a highlight. Also included are films by: Rafael Sommerhalder, Julian Gallese, Anna Budanova, Elli Vuorinen, Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter. https://www.automatala.org/2018-mondongo daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://www.automatala.org/2018-southland-ensemble-wadada-leo-smith daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1601281864211-OBLSDB3PW9UC6MSPRDPB/Wadada+Leo+Smith+Southland+Ensemble.jpg 2018: Southland Ensemble Wadada Leo Smith Southland Ensemble is excited to present the music of Wadada Leo Smith on Friday January 26th. Exploring WLS's notational style, Ankhrasmation, come experience our realization of his beautiful scores Pacifica and page 9 of Kosmic Music. We will be joined for this performance by special guests Casey Butler, Corey Fogel, Josh Gerowitz, and Dave Tranchina. “Ankhrasmation is a musical language as opposed to a musical notation system. […] The first part, Ankh, comes from the Egyptian cross. Ras comes from the Ethiopian head, meaning the leader. And Mas comes from mother.” WLS Wadada Leo Smith’s music language, Ankhrasmation, is a lifelong “experiment with instruments and people, sometime extracted from their history, sometime using their history as well.” Smith’s language admirably reserves space for individual contributions from members of the ensemble while simultaneously advancing the developing concerns of the composer. Smith’s music is truly a social context, an opportunity for each person to contribute something unique from his or her personal experience to the performance. This horizontal orientation renders the ensemble, to take a phrase from George Lewis, a “power stronger than itself.” The primacy of Rhythm Units, those marks in Ankhrasmation that most closely resemble “conventional music notation,” emphasize a core component of Smith’s musical philosophy and language: the relationship between sound and silence. Though there are a variety of possible Rhythm Units, and a variety of manners in which a musician may choose to interpret them, all Rhythm Units share the following feature: any articulation of a sound is followed by a proportional amount of silence. A short note is followed by a short silence. A Long note is followed by a long silence. The sense of phrase duration, like many other components of Smith’s language, is at once highly personal and shared throughout the group: constantly developing, evolving. In this concert we trace Smith’s language across two pieces, each in dialogue with a nebulous setting. Pacifica stretches the technique required by Smith’s Music Tower, challenging ensemble members to map their instrumental gestures to the propagation of light at various oceanic depths, stretching from the surface to the very bottom. Pacifica finds the ensemble split in half, resulting in two different performances that bookend the concert. Kosmic Music, on the other hand, takes as its point of departure the vast blackness of space, and features the entire ensemble. Smaller groups, or even solos, may arise out of this reconfigurable panel, whose orientation may be changed freely by ensemble members throughout the performance. “...Robert Johnson, Son House, and all those great guitar players, every one of them had a different way that they tuned their guitars for their special sound. When they played together, you would hear the uniqueness of each one of them. If they were in the same group, you would hear each one distinctly. That’s language. And that language is what art is all about. It’s that uniqueness, that concern with how you see or project yourself, and what that environment has that you must either encounter, engage, or somehow make peace with.” WLS https://www.automatala.org/2018-dissolving-sights daily 0.75 2020-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1602529212374-D1X8MXYHSYMXVE80GP8I/Dissolving+Sights.jpg 2018: Dissolving Sights Featuring the work of NANCY ANDREWS GABRIEL BENNETT SIÂN BLISS ADEBUKOLA BODUNRIN CAROL ERICSSON MELISSA FERRARI JANIE GEISER ADELE HAN LI CHRISTINA HUANG CAROLE KIM HSUAN-KUANG HSIEH BORA KYUNG MIN LEE CHRISTINE MARIE PETER MARK MIWA MATREYEK GINA NAPOLITAN LAURIE O’BRIEN MAT RAPPAPORT JORGE RAVELO SUSAN SIMPSON KEITH SKRETCH Projection overlays objects and architecture merging two bodies of information into a hybrid form. Creating an “image skin” over the built environment transforms, informs and confuses a static understanding of place. Dissolving Sights brings together the work of twenty-one artists who use projection as a significant part of their practice, engaging themes of place, resistance and dreams. The exhibition, organized by Janie Geiser, Bora Kyung Min Lee, Miwa Matreyek, Laurie O’Brien, Mat Rappaport and Susan Simpson is hosted by Automata and v1b3. This show celebrates the opening of the Peephole Cinema’s UNCOMMON SIGHTS, featuring the films of Nancy Andrews & Gina Marie Napolitan. These films will be playing 24/7 all year in the alley behind Automata. https://www.automatala.org/2018-wulf-automata daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604442958046-1WRUNXXTC89NO167KOPU/presencia.jpg 2018: WULF @ Automata Program: Luke Martin, practice (1) www.lukecmartin.com Mar Ta Tiesenga (new work) www.martatiesenga.format.com Amy Golden (new work) www.amygolden.tumblr.com Tim Tsang & Parch Es '(presencia (o ausencia) según conveniencia)' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slf4mtW-B4M https://www.parch.es/ ------------------------ FREE ADMISSION ------------------------ FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/956614471173325/ the wulf.: www.thewulf.org/events/details/376/ Automata 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 www.automata-la.org Biographies LUKE MARTIN is an experimental composer, performer, and poet currently living in Boston, MA. His work focuses on the concepts of silence, blandness, and social sculpture and is primarily interested in exploring limits of perception and methods of re-evaluating (and altering) processes of everyday life, i.e., ways of being in the world. AMY GOLDEN is a composer, sound artist, and vocalist based in Los Angeles. She creates works for traditional and unusual chamber ensembles, solo voice and solo instruments, orchestra, choir, electronics, and fixed media, as well as sound and sculptural installations and performance art with a special focus on the relationship between sound and object, definitions of texture, and the female experience. TIM TSANG See TIM TSANG's hypertext bio here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slf4mtW-B4M julio cann gonzález known artistically as PARCH ES uses media (from painting to music to poetry to social relations to virtual reality to build assemblages: objects that are both ‘collage’ and ‘network’ these (human-machine) assemblages perform by accelerating the flux of media (as an embodiment of time) to create portals into speculative dimensions narratives of time travel and nonhuman intelligence. MARTA TIESENGA originally from Chicago, Marta is an LA-based interdisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and animator currently pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Composition - Experimental Sound Practices and Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts. In their work, Marta explores and experiments with intersections between music cognition, music theory, repetition, composition, language and nonverbal communication, transience, and experience. They work with images, sound, performance, and strive to find an encompassing synthesis between media with inter-sensory art. https://www.automatala.org/2018-daniel-corral daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604443260404-LBT5JIZ0V6T4MCQB2FH4/Daniel+Corral+POLYTOPE.jpg 2018: Daniel Corral Automata is excited to present the world premiere of Los Angeles-based composer Daniel Corral's Polytope. This premiere will be followed by a west coast tour with performances in Seattle on March 23 and San Francisco on March 25. Polytope is a multimedia musical performance for microtonal MIDI quartet, fitting somewhere between a string quartet, Kraftwerk, James Turrell, and an Indonesian dhalang (master shadow puppeteer). Performed entirely in darkness, it’s a mesmerizing dance of silhouettes of fingers over colorful glowing buttons, captured on live feed video and projected large and bright as an evolving visual score. Polytope is rhythmically charged in the vein of musical minimalists such as Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, or Arnold Dreyblatt, but harmonically inspired by the microtonal explorations of James Tenney, Erv Wilson, or Harry Partch. Polytope will be performed by Erin Barnes, Cory Beers, Daniel Corral and Andrew Lessman. About Daniel Corral Born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska, Daniel Corral’s work defies classification at every turn. His unique voice finds outlet in accordion orchestras, handmade music boxes, post-punk opera, electronic collages, puppetry, site-specific installations, chamber music, and inter-disciplinary collaborations. Corral is musical director for Timur and The Dime Museum, leads experimental accordion orchestra Free Reed Conspiracy, and is composition faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. Daniel Corral Website: http://spinalfrog.com Daniel Corral on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/spinalfrog Polytope Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/152598178788129/ https://www.automatala.org/2018-southland-ensemble-ruth-crawford-seeger daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604443592163-HTQ5N5S779KNHNTEOLM1/Southland+Ensemble+Ruth+Crawford+Seeger.jpg 2018: Southland Ensemble Ruth Crawford Seeger Southland Ensemble presents the music of Ruth Crawford, the forward-thinking and ultra-modern composer and that of Ruth Crawford Seeger the American folk music specialist and renowned children’s music educator. From her iconic String Quartet composed in 1931, to her collection and harmonic arrangement of hundreds of American children’s folk songs, Ruth Crawford Seeger was truly an American pioneer and inimitable creative force. The program will feature the following compositions:String Quartet, Diaphonic Suite No. 1, Diaphonic Suite No. 4 and Three Songs (special arrangement by Jonathan Stehney). In addition, members of Southland Ensemble and special guests have arranged several folk songs contained in her collections Animal Folk Songs for Children and American Folk Songs for Children. The ensemble will be joined by special guests Jessica Basta, Daniel Corral, Dustin Donahue, David Perryman, Kathryn Pisaro and Argenta Walther. Southland Ensemble is: Casey Anderson, Jennifer Bewerse, Eric KM Clark, Orin Hildestad, James Klopfleisch, Jonathan Stehney, Cassia Streb & Christine Tavolacci with special guests: Jessica Basta, Natalie Brejcha, Daniel Corral, Dustin Donahue, April Guthrie, David Perryman, Kathryn Pisaro, Joanna Wallfisch and Argenta Walther https://www.automatala.org/2018-accordant-commons-you-are-measuring daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604444234333-4GLDDL231A1FEVYGQI9M/ACCORDANT+COMMONS+You+are+measuring....jpeg 2018: ACCORDANT COMMONS You are measuring... Accordant Commons returns to Automata with an immersive program of thought-provoking, innovative and playful vocal music. In this concert, premiers of recent works by Carolyn Chen, Evan Johnson and Leah Reid are juxtaposed with the musical languages of John Cage, Deborah Kavasch, Denis Pousseur and Kaija Saariaho, continuing Accordant Common's work with cultivating new vocal chamber pieces, and relating it to the traditions that they stems from. Accordant Commons is a contemporary vocal chamber music group dedicated to performance, collaboration, and the fostering of new forms of vocal writing and expression. Founded by the multifaceted vocalists Stephanie Aston and Argenta Walther, Accordant Commons has a flexible roster of performers and composers involved in its various projects https://www.automatala.org/2018-the-wulfautomata-morgan-evansweiler-michael-pisaro daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604444435406-U2PJDYKT84OLU1TKJBKA/the+wulf%40Automata-+Morgan+Evans-Weiler+Michael+Pisaro.jpg 2018: the wulf@Automata: Morgan Evans-Weiler Michael Pisaro Morgan Evans-Weiler will perform a new work for solo violin titled General Motions in Relation. He will also be joined by Los Angeles composer/performer, Michael Pisaro, for a performance of his work Concepts of Sustain. Morgan Evans-Weiler maintains a busy performance schedule and has performed throughout the United States. He is director of the New England based ensemble ‘Ordinary Affects’ whom have performed works by Eva-Maria Houben, Magnus Granberg and premiered works by Jürg Frey, Antoine Beuger and Michael Pisaro. His album ‘Violin/Sine’ was called ‘transfixing’ by writer Steve Smith and included in the Boston Globe’s list of ‘Best Local Classical Albums of 2015’. Chicago writer, Peter Margasak, writes "the degree of focus and the richness of Evans-Weiler’s sound-worlds are nothing short of astonishing" about the recent recording 'Unfinished Variations (for Jed Speare)'. His music has been released on the ‘Suppedaneum’, 'Another Timbre' and Weigher' recording labels and he has forthcoming releases on ‘Rhizome’ and ‘ErstAEU’. Michael Pisaro is a composer and guitarist, and a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. He has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. A particularly large category of his works is solo works, notably a series of 36 pieces (grouped into 6 longer works) for the three-year, 156-concert series organized by Carlo Inderhees at the Zionskirche in Berlin-Mitte from 1997-1999. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, and was selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) Most of his music of the last several years is published by Timescaper Music (Germany). Two CDs of his work have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records. https://www.automatala.org/2018-thursday-april-19-2018-at-830-pm-now-hear-ensemble-presents-storytelling daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604444567846-2NP7ZZWXOIDFSU1WMKMP/Now+Hear+Ensemble+presents+Storytelling.jpg 2018: Thursday April 19, 2018 at 8:30 PM Now Hear Ensemble presents Storytelling The Now Hear Ensemble presents “Storytelling", a program featuring works for string quartet that focus on the power of storytelling, including Ted Hearne’s The Answer to the Question that Wings Ask, Federico Llach’s El libro de los flasheos (The Book of Trippin’), Pamela Z’s and the movement of the Tongue, and the world premiere of a new work by Valentín Pelisch, 4 weak receptions from a dying TV (#1- Charles Mingus, Los Ángeles), written for the Now Hear Ensemble. Performers will include Maiani da Silva (violin), Emily Call (violin), Jonathan Morgan (viola), Jennifer Bewerse (cello), Adriane Hill (flute), and Federico Llach (narrator). https://www.automatala.org/2018-susan-simpson-a-machine-for-living-2018 daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604444718130-609LHXQ439VNEG498X7N/Susan+Simpson+Machine+for+Living+%282018%29.jpeg 2018: Susan Simpson A Machine for Living 2018 A Southern California artist absorbs errant extraterrestrial DNA and slowly evolves into highly advanced alien other. As she receives revelations from a distant planet her body transforms. She finds herself capable of a supernatural botanical reproduction that could transform the human race. Pursued as a biological terrorist she must decide her next steps. All scenes are performed on stage with small-scale puppets, sets and hand-operated special-effects. The performance is captured by multiple cameras and mixed live to create a live film experience. Video Design: Ting Zhang Sound Design: Jesse Mandapat Lighting Design: Moira MacDonald Set and Puppet: Design Susan Simpson Puppeteers: Molly Allis and Moira MacDonald. Showtimes: Fri, May 18th, 8 pm Sat, May 19th, 8 pm Sun, May 20th, 4 pm Sun, May 20th, 7 pm Fri, May 25th, 8 pm Sat, May 26th, 8 pm Sun, May 27th, 4 pm $20 General Admission $15 Members, Students, Seniors TICKETS The project was made possible by a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation. https://www.automatala.org/2018-southland-ensemble-byzantine-rites-new-work-by-laura-steenberge daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604444906953-NDBK26V6S9G2I79Q8H8W/image-asset.jpeg 2018: Southland Ensemble : Byzantine Rites New Work by Laura Steenberge Southland Ensemble concludes its 2017/18 season with the premiere of a new work by Los Angeles composer Laura Steenberge. Byzantine Rites is a new collection of pieces in which chant-inspired musical textures accompany actions performed with household objects. The title speaks in part to the borrowing of fragments of medieval Byzantine chants to form the musical materials, and in part to the use of Byzantine to refer to unnecessarily complicated procedures. This concert is presented in conjunction with the Dog Star 14th annual festival of experimental music. ---------------------------------------- ABOUT SOUTHLAND ENSEMBLE Formed in 2013, Southland Ensemble is a contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to the interpretation and performance of experimental music. The ensemble consists of eight core members and often collaborates with guests as the music requires. Each member of the ensemble is proficient on a least one or more traditional Western instruments, as well as spoken word and found objects - stones, radios, sheet metal, and household items to name a few. It is the mission of Southland Ensemble to present experimental music to a wide variety of audiences through the mediums of interactive concerts, lectures and workshops. The ensemble believes strongly in the power of creative programming to educate and enhance the audience’s understanding of an historical or artistic period. Each concert is carefully programmed to reflect a specific creative period in a location or composer's career. Since its formation, the ensemble has presented works by Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley, James Tenney, Alison Knowles, Anthony Braxton and Laurence Crane, among others. for more information about Southland Ensemble:: https://www.southlandensemble.com/ for more information about Laura Steenberge: https://laurasteenbergeportfolio.com/ This concert is presented in conjunction with the Dog Star 14th annual festival of experimental music. https://www.automatala.org/2018-body-music-carolyn-chen-ian-power daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604445201381-72XYIUROETIVQIWSFSZ2/image-asset.jpeg 2018: BODY MUSIC Carolyn Chen & Ian Power Collaborators Ian Power & Carolyn Chen perform a range of pieces combining music and movement, stemming from their time together in California: marble-rolling in the style of 19th-century tortoise-walking, tug-of-war to transcription of Ligeti viola solo, duo for mimed instruments connecting different playing styles, monologue from a Cervantes heroine to organ music, organ solo with sonorous tai chi apparel, two movement quartets exploring blindfolded listening to recreate sounds of struggle, and gestures of social contact focusing on the head, shoulders, knees and toes. For more information about Carolyn Chen: https://walkingmango.wordpress.com/bio/ https://soundcloud.com/carolyn-chen For more information about Ian Power: http://ianpoweromg.tumblr.com/ https://soundcloud.com/ianpoweromg ---------------------------------------- This concert is presented in conjunction with the Dog Star 14th annual festival of experimental music. For a full list of Dog Star 14 events, visit dogstarorchestra.com. https://www.automatala.org/2018-christine-tavolacci-andr-cormiers-piling-sand-piling-stone-4 daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604445313430-URHQ7MGCYTKS7CW1CP0R/image-asset.jpeg 2018: Christine Tavolacci André Cormier's Piling Sand - Piling Stone 4 Flutist Christine Tavolacci returns to Automata with the west coast premiere of Canadian composer André Cormier's immersive 96 minute work for flute, electronics and video Piling Sand - Piling Stone 4. Piling Sand—Piling Stone 4 (2011) is the fourth of seven volumes that make up a series of large-scale works that explore music unfolding on both the small and large scale. To achieve this, the performer (in this volume solo flute) plays through a highly strategize ninety-minute score, and is recorded in six-minute segments, which loop and layer fifteen times. As the piece progresses, the live sounds intermix with the recorded layers that are output with loudspeakers. Stratum of sound emerge during the course of the performance, increasing in density and complexity, yet always controlled. After ninety-minutes, once the performer has played the last note, the end result is a six-minute resonating sculpture-like recording of all the fifteen layers. At this point the live performance is over, however, at the same time beginning its second formal incarnation as a standalone reverberating sonic entity. The Piling Sand—Piling Stone series uses sound and performance to create the illusion of time folding onto itself. - André Cormier Christine Tavolacci is a Los Angeles based flutist, composer and educator specializing in contemporary and experimental music. She has traveled across the United States and Europe to study and perform, and has been involved in the premieres of many new works, including those by Alvin Lucier, James Saunders, Michael Pisaro, Chiyoko Slavnics, Carolyn Chen and Catherine Lamb. Christine is active as a soloist, improviser, curator and chamber musician both in California and internationally. She is co-founder and co-director of Southland Ensemble, as well as a member of the Dog StarOrchestra and Gurrisonic. Her playing has been released on Orenda Records, Slub Music(Japan) and Tzadik. André Cormier’s work has been presented in Canada, the US, Europe and New Zealand. He has written for solo, small and large chamber ensembles, as well as music for opera, dance and collaborative work with visual artists. His works have been commissioned from a variety of artists in Canada, the US and Europe. In 2004 he founded Ensemble Ordinature and has since served as artistic director. He produced their debut recording of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate, which is featured on ubu.com and was favourably reviewed in UK new music magazine The Wire. Along with violist Mieka Kohut and artist Donna Kelly, Cormier co-founded CO•LAB, a multi-disciplinary collaborative project. In 2008 he launched Éditions musique SISYPHE (emsis.ca) a music publishing house focusing on experimental music. Cormier is an Acadian, originally from Moncton NB, and has lived on the west coast since the early nineties. https://www.automatala.org/2018-christine-marie-workshop-exploration-of-the-shadow daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604447138781-4TV774PZLZXXWWU7M622/image-asset.png 2018: Christine Marie Workshop, Exploration of the Shadow Shadows are a powerfully engaging medium for exploring an emotion, an archetype, or a character. Exploration of the Shadow is ideal for all types of artists, authors, dancers, actors and anyone interested (18 years and above) in exploring light as visual poetry, and as an exploration of self. During the workshop, participants will explore the possibilities of shadow performance through a range of means. Participants may craft masks and puppets to cast shadows, and/or use provided shapes, textures, color, figures, bodies, and props. We’ll scaffold your experience, reminding you of all the tools you possess for enlivening your imagination and creating liminal landscapes of visual and (non)verbal narrative. Experience known and newly written text come to life. Unplug from digital, pixilated, programmed images bound by screens. The workshop is not specifically for learning how to craft a shadow puppet- yet we will do some mask work and some crafting. We'll share quotes by Carl Jung and Marshall McLuhan, as well as poems and short stories that relate to shadows and communication with light. Participants will have space to use existing poetry, music or their own writing to create a short work. Each workshop may be taken individually or take both and build upon skills. CHRISTINE MARIE (www.4ChristineMarie.com) is an artist, inventor and director. She has taught shadow animation at Pixar and DreamWorks studios. Her work has been presented at REDCAT, the Geffen Theater, South Coast Repertory, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and other venues. She seamlessly integrates performers, objects and special effects to elicit connections with concepts, phenomenology and history in emotional and visually stimulating theatrical experiences. Christine Marie strives to break new ground within her form while being intrinsically tied to ancient art forms and the metaphysical exploration of light. She is pioneering the use of large-scale 3D shadows by reinventing the stereoscope and casting 30’ shadows into cubic space. She studied Wayang Kulit traditional shadow puppetry in Bali and is a former 15 year member of San Francisco's ShadowLight Theater. Christine Marie received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Puppetry, Integrated Media and Theater. She is a TED Fellow. Marie has formally received, Jukai (lay initiation) into zen buddhist practice from the San Francisco zen center. If you take both workshops: in Workshop #2, we will revisit some of the same exercises using new prompts and texts, and we will introduce additional methods for creating effects with light (layering and color blending, etc) and their connection to meaning. Participants can expect to work both in small groups, dyads and individually, in one or both workshops. https://www.automatala.org/2018-diagenesis-duo-heather-barnes-soprano-jennifer-bewerse-cello daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604447456382-2BOGWD6CP7L6YZ6OO6VW/image-asset.jpeg 2018: Diagenesis Duo Heather Barnes: soprano Jennifer Bewerse: cello Diagenesis Duo (Heather Barnes-soprano and Jennifer Bewerse-cello) makes their first appearance in Los Angeles performing contemporary classical music from their recently released debut CD, Hands and Lips of Wind. The concert features commissions Diagenesis has made throughout their 7-year collaboration and Harrison Birtwistle's elegant miniatures, Twelve Settings of Lorine Niedecker. Also on the program is Diagenesis's most recent commission, Marti Epstien's Different Kinds of Light featuring the poetry of Jackson Mac Low. diagenesisduo.com Program: Harrison Birtwistle: Twelve Settings of Lorine Niedecker Mischa Salkind-Pearl: Hands and Lips of Wind Marti Epstein: Different Kinds of Light Adam Scott Neal: Travels Scott Ordway: Black is the Color https://www.automatala.org/2018-object-of-her-affection-marsian-de-lellis daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604447570887-GFUW8STW0YEH299XZMUF/image-asset.jpeg 2018: OBJECT OF HER AFFECTION MARSIAN DE LELLIS Automata and Los Angeles Performance Practice are excited to co-present the World Premiere of Marsian De Lellis’ Object of Her Affection, as part of the 6th annual LAX FESTIVAL. This compelling new solo work is an object and puppet-based performance art piece centered on a woman who, in her search for true love, develops intimate relationships with inanimate objects. Created by Marsian De Lellis, and developed with director Michele Spears, this unconventional love story explores the synesthetic relationship between objects and personalities, and the ways that objects can occupy more than one meaning at any given time. Object of Her Affection follows the emotional journey of protagonist Andrea Lowe, after she has mysteriously fallen from a building. In her final moments, she reflects on her meaningful relationships starting with her first love, a baby’s blanket. As an adolescent, she loses her virginity to a bad-boy hunting rifle and subsequently becomes infatuated with a controversial wall. As Andrea evolves, so do her desires. Each of her relationships has a profound effect, shaping Andrea’s views on life and love. (Read More) LA Weekly, on DeLellis' work in progress performance: “The piece, which questions on a cosmic level our artificial divide between the animate and the inanimate, has the appealing, droll humor and structural unity of a David Sedaris story.” There will be twelve performances over three weekends from September 27th to October 13th at Automata as part of Los Angeles Exchange [LAX] Festival, 6th Ed., produced by Los Angeles Performance Practice. Performance Times September 27 - October13, 2018 Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00PM Sundays at 7:00PM TO SEE OBJECT OF HER AFFECTION AT AUTOMATA, CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS NOTE: This performance is not suitable for children. Biographies: Marsian De Lellis (writer, performer, creator) is an interdisciplinary artist who combines sculpture, objects, installation, performance and handmade spectacles to memorialize obsessional lives. Their work celebrates stories of unconventional people whose private manias become public fodder for tabloids and reality television. Michele Spears (director) is a director/choreographer, performer, theatre producer, and arts educator. Her work has been recognized with New York Nightlife, L.A. Weekly, Saturn, UNIMA, Stagescene L.A., Dramalogue, and Santa Barbara Independent Awards, as well as American Choreographers Award and Ovation Award nominations. Also on view: Marsian De Lellis' Installation (In)/Animate Objects in Automata's Windows: A mountain of decaying rag dolls towers to the ceiling upon which their maker, the grandmother, presides from the throne of her wingback chair. The dolls testify to the insatiable need for love at the heart of the obsessional life. (Suitable for all ages) Read/see more for further information: info@losangelesperformancepractice.org photo : Rafael Hernandez https://www.automatala.org/2018-a-machine-for-living-returns daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1604447921920-4P6OHJCMYDN8WEZDC33E/A+Machine+for+Living.jpg 2018: A Machine for Living returns! A Southern California artist absorbs errant extraterrestrial DNA and slowly evolves into highly advanced alien other. As she receives revelations from a distant planet her body transforms. She finds herself capable of a supernatural botanical reproduction that could transform the human race. Pursued as a biological terrorist she must decide her next steps. All scenes are performed on stage with small-scale puppets, sets and hand-operated special-effects. The performance is captured by multiple cameras and mixed live to create a live film experience. “an eerie, captivating tale combining classic L.A. noir with freaky botany-based sci-fi……. part outsider theater, part live cinema, and fully mind-boggling” —LA Magazine Video Design: Ting Zhang Sound Design: Jesse Mandapat Lighting Design: Moira MacDonald Set and Puppet: Design Susan Simpson Puppeteers: Molly Allis and Moira MacDonald. Vocal Performances by : Anne Yatco and Samuel Camp Showtimes: Friday, Oct. 19 at 8:00 pm Saturday, Oct. 20 at 4:00 pm Saturday, Oct. 20 at 8:00 pm Sunday, Oct. 21 at 2:00 pm Friday, Oct. 26 at 8:00 pm Saturday, Oct 27 at 8:00 pm Sunday, Oct. 28 at 4:00 pm The project was made possible by a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation. https://www.automatala.org/2018-southland-ensemble-george-brechts-candle-piece-for-radios-and-other-classic-event-scores daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606729383109-RL1MDKIPBYHIDRVQ3W0V/Southland+Ensemble+George+Brecht%E2%80%99s+Candle+Piece+for+Radios+and+other+classic+event+scores..jpg 2018: Southland Ensemble George Brecht’s Candle Piece for Radios and other classic event scores. Automata is excited to announce Southland Ensemble's 2018-2019 Season of 4 programs, presented between November 2018 and June 2019. The season opens at Automata this Saturday, November 10 with Program 1: George Brecht’s Candle Piece for Radios andother classic event scores. This Saturday's program inaugurates the season with Southland Ensemble's annual FLUXUS event, featuring George Brecht’s Candle Piece for Radios among other classic event scores. Including pieces by Robert Bozzi (1966), George Brecht (1959), Henning Christiansen (1964), Ken Friedman (1965), Alison Knowles (1965), Takehisa Kosugi, Larry Miller (1970), Yoko Ono (1955), Tomas Schmit and Robert Watts (1970). ABOUT SOUTHLAND ENSEMBLE: Formed in 2013, Southland Ensemble is contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to the interpretation and performance of experimental music. The ensemble consists of seven core members and often collaborates with guests as the music requires. Each member of the ensemble is proficient on a least one or more traditional Western instruments, as well as spoken word and found objects - stones, radios, sheet metal, and household items to name a few. It is the mission of Southland Ensemble to present experimental music to a wide variety of audiences through the mediums of interactive concerts, lectures and workshops. The ensemble believes strongly in the power of creative programming to educate and enhance the audience’s understanding of an historical or artistic period. Each concert is carefully programmed to reflect a specific creative period in a location or composer's career. Since its formation, the ensemble has presented works by Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley, James Tenney, Alison Knowles and Laurence Crane, among others. https://www.southlandensemble.com/ "Southland Ensemble continues to add an important dimension to the cultural life of Los Angeles with outstanding performances of the late 20th century masters" - Sequenza21 https://www.automatala.org/2018-automata-windows-model-cities-december-2018 daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606729646125-W1ZZR1NVZ174964KW2XP/image-asset.jpeg 2018: Automata Windows: Model Cities December 2018 https://www.automatala.org/2019-january-dr-residencies-sara-lyons-jan-713 daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606730009525-TEU12WIO10Z3BL5KVUAJ/image-asset.png 2019: January D+R Residencies- Sara Lyons (Jan 7-13) UNTITLED CONSENT PROJECT [UCP] is a participatory, mixed reality performance project contending with so-called “grey areas” of consent and the foreignness of language in the face of immediate sensation and desire. Work-in-Progress Showing: Sunday, January 13 // 2:30pm (free) at Automata 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90042 [runtime approx. 50 min] :: RESERVATIONS + INFO :: // Join Automata and Los Angeles Performance Practice for our first D+R (Development + Research) Residency work-in-progress showing of 2019. Admission is free, RSVP is recommended, and donations toward our residency program are warmly appreciated. // LAPP and Automata offer D+R development residencies for artists creating new works of live performance. The program is designed to provide vital infrastructure for Los Angeles based artists, and places emphasis on work that reflects/connects to the unique histories, environments, communities, issues and artistic legacies that define it. ABOUT THIS RESIDENCY // Is there intimacy without power? UNTITLED CONSENT PROJECT [UCP] is a participatory, mixed reality performance project contending with so-called “grey areas” of consent and the foreignness of language in the face of immediate sensation and desire. What happens when we rely on language to hold that ephemeral third space between two individuals having sex? In a series of structured one-on-one analog and mediated interactions, performers and audience members will meet at intersections of mind and body, blindness and sight, me and you, and attempt to dance across these chasms. With material developed from found accounts of sexual experience and assault narratives, UCP participants must contend with the impossible task of consent: mediating physical experiences through language. UCP will deconstruct gendered problematics of one-on-one intimacy, perform the treacherous chasm between self and other, and ask what is at stake when our most vulnerable sensations must be mediated through language. UCP seeks to expand the feminist cultural conversations about consent and lay the groundwork for new frameworks for sexual collaboration. ABOUT THE ARTIST // Sara Lyons is a Los Angeles-based director who seeks to explode form and politic in critically embodied, interdisciplinary new theatre and performance works. Working frequently in adaptation, social practice, and new media, their work has been presented nationally and internationally by Los Angeles Performance Practice, OUTsider, SFX Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, LaMaMa, Edinburgh Fringe, and more. Sara holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and is an alum of the Hemispheric Institute’s EMERGENYC program for artists working at the intersection of performance and politics at NYU. They are a features writer with ContemporaryPerformance.com. More at www.sara-lyons.com // • • • Collaboratively offered by Los Angeles Performance Practice and Automata, and supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Photo by Gema Galiana, "I'm Very Into You," LAX Festival, 2018. https://www.automatala.org/2019-daeun-jungs-dr-residency-the-earthian-folk-dance-in-residence-january-2127-2019 daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606730159871-OLU5X2T4G6R25NEP0G3N/January+D%2BR+Residencies-+DeEun+Jung+%28Jan+21-27%29.jpg 2019: DaEun Jung's D+R Residency // The Earthian Folk Dance In Residence: January 21-27, 2019 The Earthian Folk Dance is a communal dance activity or play created and performed by Earthians. This new project starts from the intersection of my on-going investigations—redefining the principles and methods of Korean folk dance and exploring physical reconciliation of intercultural bodies. Through this project, I aim to develop contemporary tactics of organizing repeatable steps and rhythmic movements, which are accessible to bodies of diverse backgrounds. I also seek to invent movement tasks that require the communal effort to fulfill. EFD strives for sharable fun in dance evoked by communal, physical excitement while accomplishing the joint tasks. EFD also challenges hyper-individuality of post-modern choreographies and hyper-cultural-representation of traditional folk dances, questioning the cultural and somatic identity of each participant. EFD celebrates team spirit and bodily exhilaration, which can potentially take the group dance even to virtuosity. ABOUT THE ARTIST // DaEun Jung is a bicultural dancer-choreographer whose work reveals her past and present body memories. Her works have been presented at performance venues in Los Angeles including Electric Lodge, Highways, The Mortuary, Pieter, and REDCAT. She has been awarded artist-in-residencies from Camera Obscura Art Lab, Dance Resource Center at KYCC Menlo Center, and Show Box LA at We Live in Space. DaEun redefines the principles, form, and origin of Korean classical/folk dance in inter/multi-cultural settings as a continuation of her graduate study at UCLA where she received her MFA in choreography and Westfield Emerging Artist Award. She has collaborated as a performer with choreographers such as Victoria Marks, Milka Djordjevich, Ros Warby, Wilfried Souly, Jeanine Durning, Shahar Biniamini, and Melinda Ring. www.daeunjung.com // Photo by Ella Gabriel. https://www.automatala.org/2019-southland-ensemble-new-experimental-works daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606730557460-XLSN0RIBJ0K4WHNOFUHW/SOUTHLAND+ENSEMBLE+NEW+EXPERIMENTAL+WORKS.jpg 2019: SOUTHLAND ENSEMBLE NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS https://www.automatala.org/2019-women-in-windows-curated-by-zehra-ahmed daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606730742266-PJJFA1J5JWL3NR6POQFD/WOMEN+IN+WINDOWS+A+multi-part+installation+along+Chung+King+Road+curated+by+Zehra+Ahmed+February+21-March+10%2C+2019.jpg 2019: WOMEN IN WINDOWS curated by Zehra Ahmed Automata is excited to be one of the storefront window sites for Women In Windows, a multi-part video installation along Chung King Road which focuses on the confluence of culture, religion and society in an exploration of female identity, debuts today, Six American women from diverse cultural backgrounds, spanning across South Asia, the Middle East, Puerto Rico and Trinidad, will present video artworks which challenge, both in content and in context, society’s definition of femininity. Videos by Alima Lee, Arshia Fatima Haq, Gazelle Samizay, Jasdeep Kang, Muna Malik and Yumna Al-Arashi are placed throughout the windows and storefronts of Chinatown’s historic Chung King Road by Los Angeles-based curator Zehra Ahmed. Ahmed’s vision is to redefine what it means to be a ‘woman in a window.’ Peep shows and advertisements promote a distorted understanding of a woman’s worth. They are idealized as objects of desire and vehicles for commerce, without principles, personalities or points of view. Women of color are especially subject to such objectification, whether in retail, fashion, pop culture or through the endless consumption of brown and black bodies in the media, yet they remain largely absent from this dialogue; a record well documented by the influential artist group Guerrilla Girls. This exhibition subverts the societal notion of female-as-object and presents the experiences, feelings and intellects of six women artists of color in an unignorable public forum. Glass boxes, which so often frame their bodies, become windows into the souls and substance of these women, who show us that the multifaceted and deeply personal female perspective cannot be contained by, or simplified to, a skin-deep, male-gaze centric representation of what it means to be female. Women In Windows is produced and curated by Zehra Ahmed and is supported by Automata Arts, Chungking Studio, Imprint Projects, The Institute for Art and Olfaction, Lisa Derrick Fine Arts, Poetic Research Bureau and Preen Inc. IN AUTOMATA'S WINDOWS: Jasdeep Kang Phiran Wali (The Girl Who Walks) (2019) CHINATOWN FILM WINDOW LOCATIONS: Alima Lee Garden (2017) Imprint Projects and Chungking Studio Arshia Fatima Haq The Ascension (2018) Poetic Research Bureau Gazelle Samizay Ravel (2014) Lisa Derrick Fine Arts Muna Malik Are You Here (2019) Preen Inc. Yumna Al-Arashi Shedding Skin (2017) The Institute for Art and Olfaction ABOUT THE CURATOR // Zehra Ahmed, raised in Karachi, Pakistan, is a curator, designer and creative producer based in Los Angeles, with over a decade’s worth of experience in the art and design world. She has spent six years working as an architect in London and New York, on large scale cultural and hospitality projects located in Asia, India and the Middle East, including the Bvlgari Hotel Beijing and the Abu Dhabi Media Center. During her time in New York, Zehra was an art and lifestyle contributor for Hyland Magazine, and was involved with producing a variety of art exhibits and events for the Rhode Island School of Design. She then moved to Los Angeles, where she managed The Haas Brothers, before starting her freelance career as a creative consultant in the art, design and hospitality space. She has recently been working as a creative consultant and curator on the development of a new hotel brand with the HWood Group, on the production of the Sexy Beast Gala for Planned Parenthood and is collaborating with the Compton Cowboys. AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net Image from Jasdeep Kang’s PHIRAN WALI (THE GIRL WHO WALKS), 2019 https://www.automatala.org/2019the-speakeasy-society-presents-the-kansas-collection daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606730881133-3YVVC9JS1RX2ZKNIBMWJ/Speakeasy+Society+And+D%2BR.jpg 2019: The Speakeasy Society presents The Kansas Collection The Speakeasy Society presents The Kansas Collection Chapter 9 - The Storm “The house began to shake” The Speakeasy Society returns to Automata with The Kansas Collection---Chapter 9:The Storm, the ninth installment of their mesmerizing re-imagining of Baum's Land of Oz. Her Majesty, Queen Ozma, is inviting Kansas recruits to a small reception. But due to Time Dilation, it happens to be the same evening as when you last saw Phil and Glinda. Will you be loyal and keep your secrets? Or will you take advantage of time collapsing to gain favor with the Queen? Since the first time you entered the strange, colorful tent that whisked you into the battle for the Emerald Throne and control of Oz, time and space have begun to rupture. The portals between Earth and Oz have resulted in the deterioration of the timeline between our world and theirs. But not everyone sees this as a problem... The Kansas Collection Chapter 9: The Storm is an immersive performance, with small groups entering every 30 minutes beginning at 7PM on Friday through Sunday, and additional performances beginning on Saturday at 3PM. Tickets are sold for specific entry times, so advance reservations/tickets are strongly suggested. Tickets can be purchased at: www.speakeasysociety.com/thestorm Featuring: Performers: Genevieve Gearhart, Zan Headley, Jessica Rosilyn Original script created and produced by The Speakeasy Society. Co-Artistic Directors: Matthew Bamberg-Johnson, Genevieve Gearhart, Julianne Just Associate Artistic Directors: Michael Bates, Chris Porter Producing Director: John Henningsen Lighting and Stage Management: Andrew Lia The Speakeasy Society is an LA based immersive entertainment company creating intimate and epic experiences in unexpected places. We collaboratively create 360-degree worlds providing escape through total engagement--crafting a shared experience where audience interaction becomes a vital aspect of the performance. speakeasysociety.com At: AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-marsian-delellis-model-killer-giant-crimes-tiny-coverups daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606731069857-36U4VED07VUHOC9IFVCD/Marsian+DeLellis+MODEL+KILLER-+GIANT+CRIMES+%2B+TINY+COVER-UPS.jpg 2019: Marsian DeLellis MODEL KILLER: GIANT CRIMES + TINY COVER-UPS Interdisciplinary Artist Marsian DeLellis is in residence at Automata developing a new performance work, Model Killer. Model Killer is a morbid comedy centered on a disgruntled dollhouse-maker turned investigator. Vivian Nutt builds dioramas of unsolved murders, only for it to be revealed that she is in fact, a serial killer. In Model Killer, DeLellis is creating a universe in which the audience is invited to reconsider female serial killers, the historically feminine craft of miniatures, and murder as entertainment. Read more about Marsian DeLellis and Model Killer HERE. MARSIAN DELELLIS D+R Residency Event Sunday March 31, 2019 at 4 PM Join Automata and Los Angeles Performance Practice for an open rehearsal of Marsian DeLellis' MODEL KILLER, including a reading of excerpts + work-in-progress presentation of two sections. Admission is free, Donations toward our residency program are warmly appreciated. Reserve a free ticket HERE RSVP is highly recommended, as seating is limited. ABOUT THE ARTIST // Marsian De Lellis (Writer, Performer, Creator) is an interdisciplinary artist who combines sculpture, objects, installation, performance and handmade spectacles to memorialize obsessional lives. Their work celebrates stories of unconventional people whose private manias become public fodder for tabloids and reality television. MarsianDeLellis.com // Marsian DeLellis' work is also featured in the current 3 Person exhibition at Track 16 through May 11. More information HERE ABOUT THE D+R RESIDENCY // Automata and Los Angeles Performance Practice offer development residencies for artists creating new works of live performance. The program is designed to provide vital infrastructure for Los Angeles based artists, and places emphasis on work that reflects/connects to the unique histories, environments, communities, issues and artistic legacies that define it. At: AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net • • • D+R Residencies are collaboratively offered by Los Angeles Performance Practice and Automata, and supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. https://www.automatala.org/2019-southland-ensemble-ballad-of-the-stareater-the-music-of-johanna-beyer daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606731218936-BA2JKVY0NZ5UBF26VR5G/SOUTHLAND+ENSEMBLE+Ballad+of+the+Star-Eater-+the+Music+of+Johanna+Beyer.jpg 2019: SOUTHLAND ENSEMBLE Ballad of the Star-Eater: the Music of Johanna Beyer https://www.automatala.org/2019-curve-new-sound-works-liew-niyomkarn-innes-eysermans-and-eric-heep daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606731338791-4UZWWGLLOXRNNDIVDUU3/CURVE+New+Sound+Works+Liew+Niyomkarn%2C+Innes+Eysermans%2C+and+Eric+Heep+.jpg 2019: CURVE New Sound Works Liew Niyomkarn, Innes Eysermans, and Eric Heep https://www.automatala.org/2019-unwrinkled-ear-tatsuya-nakatani-and-urs-leimgruber daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606731709387-EQ5368703GCDO7JPQI2D/Unwrinkled+Ear+Tatsuya+Nakatani+And+Urs+Leimgruber+.jpg 2019: Unwrinkled Ear Tatsuya Nakatani And Urs Leimgruber https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606731733372-YDYZGSA3867IGPY521U2/The+Unwrinkled+Ear+and+Black+Editions+present-+Tatsuya+Nakatani+and+Urs+Leimgruber.jpeg 2019: Unwrinkled Ear Tatsuya Nakatani And Urs Leimgruber https://www.automatala.org/2019-dissolving-sights-ii-and-peephole-cinema-opening daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606731878823-EE2IUU1Q9RHE1FS65TEA/Dissolving+Sights+2019.jpg 2019: Dissolving Sights II and Peephole Cinema Opening https://www.automatala.org/2019-last-chrysanthemums-the-koan-quartet daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606732080357-K8O4MTSVILRF03IJ8LTM/LAST+CHRYSANTHEMUMS++The+Koan+Quartet.jpg 2019: LAST CHRYSANTHEMUMS The Koan Quartet The Koan Quartet performs the premiere of 3 string quartets by Canadian experimental music composer, André Cormier with video design by Joshua Westerman. These works feature substantial reliance on performer intervention and choice-making, varying boundaries of autonomy within the score’s structure, and issues of interdependency between quartet members. The titles of the pieces take inspiration from 3 films by the late Japanese filmmaker, Mikio Naruse. This performance is expansive and contemplative. PROGRAM: Derniers Chrysanthemes (Last Chrysanthemums ) Le Grondement de la montagne (Sound of the Mountain) Nuages flottants (Floating Clouds) ABOUT THE COMPOSER: André Cormier’s work has been presented in Canada, the US, Europe, and New Zealand. He has written for solo, small and large chamber ensembles, as well as music for opera, dance as well as collaborative work with visual artists. His works have been commissioned from a variety of artists in Canada, the US, and Europe. In 2008, he launched Éditions musique Sisyphe (www.emsis.ca), a publishing house primarily for experimental music scores; he also directs its performing branch, Ensemble Sisyphe. In 2011, after nearly twenty years on the west coast shared between British Columbia and California, André made his return to eastern Canada, first in Montreal, and then in the summer of 2012, he returned to his native Acadie. Today, André maintains a busy schedule as a composer by fulfilling commissions and presenting work, all in an effort to greater understand what makes sound and silence so irresistible. He also finds the complement of cacao and sugar immensely intriguing. ABOUT THE MUSIC: "Trois quatuors Mikio Naruse was written in 2014 as an extension of prior notation ideas that appear in some of my earlier pieces. Each quartet focuses entirely on just one of these ideas. However, there are a few uniting features across the three quartets worth mentioning, for instance, substantial reliance on performer intervention and choice-making, varying boundaries of autonomy within the score’s structure, and issues of interdependency between quartet members."---André Cormier ABOUT THE DESIGNER: Josh Westerman is a Colorado based interdisciplinary artist and musician who works with installation art, graphic scores, field recordings, appropriated content, improvisation, and video. Their work utilizes and critiques emergent media and aesthetics while still showing a fondness for established disciplines. They experiment with algorithmic art and explore issues like alienation and intimacy in the contemporary social and political contexts brought about by the ubiquity of digital technology. Josh is a graduate of California Institute for the Arts where received an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices and Integrated Media. They are currently attending the University of Colorado Boulder where he is a PhD candidate in Critical Media Practices. ABOUT KOAN QUARTET The Koan Quartet is based in Los Angeles and performs works by 20th and 21st century composers such as Alvin Curran, Carolyn Chen, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, James Tenney and, most recently, Johanna Beyer. The ensemble works hard to present thoughtful and meticulously-researched performances of rarely heard works from the contemporary and experimental repertoire. Koan Quartet is Eric KM Clark and Orin Hildestad; violins, Cassia Streb; viola and Jennifer Bewerse; cello. General Admission: $15 Members, Students, Seniors: $12 For Tickets, click HERE at AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-southland-ensemble-land-images-with-dog-star-orchestra daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606732225799-MDHRA5IFKDV4K3PIHRHB/SOUTHLAND+ENSEMBLE-++Land+Images++With+Dog+Star+Orchestra.jpg 2019: SOUTHLAND ENSEMBLE: Land Images With Dog Star Orchestra Southland Ensemble presents a concert of text and graphic scores that directly engage with nature and natural environments. The program features the following compositions: Kathryn Koopman - For the Beauty of the Earth Jack Langdon - (here) 7: land images, one Heather Lockie - 4 Dryads Christian Wolff - selections from Prose Collection This concert is presented alongside Dog Star Orchestra 15, the annual festival of experimental music. Members of the Dog Star Orchestra will be joining Southland Ensemble in the performance of several of these scores. ABOUT SOUTHLAND ENSEMBLE: Formed in 2013, Southland Ensemble is contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to the interpretation and performance of experimental music. The ensemble consists of seven core members and often collaborates with guests as the music requires. Each member of the ensemble is proficient on a least one or more traditional Western instruments, as well as spoken word and found objects - stones, radios, sheet metal, and household items to name a few. It is the mission of Southland Ensemble to present experimental music to a wide variety of audiences through the mediums of interactive concerts, lectures and workshops. The ensemble believes strongly in the power of creative programming to educate and enhance the audience’s understanding of an historical or artistic period. Each concert is carefully programmed to reflect a specific creative period in a location or composer's career. Since its formation, the ensemble has presented works by Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley, James Tenney, Alison Knowles and Laurence Crane, among others. www.southlandensemble.com Boundaries were blurred—not just between the pieces themselves, but also between music and theater, between audience and performer, between performance and life. - --New Music Box Southland Ensemble's full 2018-2019 season of four programs will take place at Automata. General Admission: $15 Members, Students, Seniors: $12 For Tickets, click HERE at AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-moira-macdonald-selkie-a-shadow-installation daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606732396455-BEMVWOOQ1XGNUYX8K543/MOIRA+MACDONALD++Selkie-++A+Shadow+Installation.jpg 2019: MOIRA MACDONALD Selkie: A Shadow Installation Automata Windows presents MOIRA MACDONALD'S Shadow installation SELKIE in our storefront windows on Chung King Court, across from the Koi fish pond. Automata Window installations can be seen any time of the day or night, as you walk on Chung King Court Through multiple circular backlit images, a young woman embarks on a quest for water, and undergoes a strange transformation. While Selkie is always on view through June 27, is best viewed as a shadow installation in the evening or night, when the illuminated silhouettes glow in the window. ABOUT MOIRA MACDONALD: Moira Lael MacDonald is a multidisciplinary theater artist and filmmaker. Her most recent work, Blue Waves, was performed at Automata Arts in Los Angeles in 2017. Other work includes Selkie, Margery and Me, Anatomy Lesson, Amaranth, The Life of the Bee, and Letter from the Bees. Her short hand-processed film, The Visible Woman, was screened at Concord Space in LA. Moira holds an MFA in Puppetry and Integrated Media from CalArts, and a BFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She teaches at Pasadena City College, and Moorpark College, where she was recently commissioned to lead a team of students in the design and fabrication of shadow puppets for the school's production of The Comedy of Errors. Moira was born and raised in Sitka, Alaska. On view in our windows on Chung King Court; Selkie is best viewed after dark. AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-mem1-with-pauline-lay-rheya-and-anna-homler-jorge-martin daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606732531771-I6YCGQGOZUW2HIWVUXJN/MEM1++with+Pauline+Lay%2C+rheya%2C+and+Anna+Homler+%2B+Jorge+Martin.jpeg 2019: MEM1 with Pauline Lay, rheya, and Anna Homler + Jorge Martin Automata is pleased to welcome Mem1 in their only LA appearance during their summer 2019 US tour. Mem1 seamlessly blends the sounds of cello and electronics to create a limitless palette of sonic possibilities. In their improvisation-based performances, Mark and Laura Cetilia’s use of custom hardware and software, in conjunction with a uniquely subtle approach to extended cello technique and realtime modular synthesis patching, results in the creation of a single voice rather than a duet between two individuals. Their music moves beyond melody, lyricism and traditional structural confines, revealing an organic evolution of sound that has been called “a perfect blend of harmony and cacophony” (Forced Exposure). The Oxford University Press’ New Grove Dictionary of American Music describes Mem1 as “a unified cybernetic force, or complex cybernetic entity, comprised of two human artists plus their instruments and systems” whose “evolving, custom-built systems are as important an aspect of the duo’s achievements as their ever-innovative sound. Confounding the complexities inherent in human-machine and human-instrument relationship, Mem1 understands its music as a feedback loop between the past and present.” Founded in Los Angeles in 2003, Mem1 has traveled extensively, performing at Café OTO (London), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), Roulette (NYC), REDCAT, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Goethe-Institut (Boston), Sound of Mu (Oslo), the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Borealis Festival (Bergen), Laptopia Festival (Tel-Aviv), Uganda (Jerusalem), and Electronic Church (Berlin). They have taken part in residencies at Harvestworks in New York, STEIM and Kunstenaarslogies in the Netherlands, O' in Milan, and USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. Throughout their career, they have collaborated with a variety of musicians and sound artists including the Penderecki String Quartet, Steve Roden, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider, and Stephen Vitiello. Together, Mem1 curates the experimental music series Ctrl+Alt+Repeat and the record label Estuary Ltd. GUEST ARTISTS: Pauline Lay is an instrumentalist, composer, and events organizer in Los Angeles. She has performed and presented work at several larger institutions, venues, and areas throughout the US, but has also enjoyed the spirit of DIY venues, backyards, and cozy living rooms. Apart from her solo improvised violin and electronics performances, she currently performs and collaborates with other musicians in varying iterations and genres from duets to larger ensembles including her sound enveloping piece, “5x5,” a composition for 25 synthesizers. rheya - music by david rothbaum Anna Homler, is a vocal, visual and performance artist based in Los Angeles. She has performed and exhibited her work in venues around the world. With a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, Homler sings in an improvised melodic language. Her work explores alternative means of communication and the poetics of ordinary things. She creates perceptual interventions by using language as music and objects as instruments. Jorge Martin - By day, Jorge Martin is a mild-mannered medical researcher but, at night, he transforms into a well-respected sound artist. Though classically trained on piano and clarinet, he is more often heard constructing intricate music by processing the output from his modular analog synthesizer panels through a myriad of guitar effect pedals. Until a few years ago he was one half of the acclaimed duo Spastic Colon. All Tickets: $5 Tickets may be purchased in advance HERE AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-sichong-xie-with-the-notes-of-faraway-song-floating-from-the-other-shore daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606732810420-LVR18ODSM8EHCXQBHOXS/SICHONG+XIE++With+the+notes+of+far-away+song+floating+from+the+other+shore++A+double+window+installation-+June+30+-+July+19%2C+2019.jpg 2019: SICHONG XIE With the notes of far-away song floating from the other shore AUTOMATA WINDOWS presents SICHONG XIE With the notes of far-away song floating from the other shore A double window installation: June 30 - July 19, 2019 OPEN GALLERY HOURS JULY 12-13 FROM 1 PM - 8 PM The installation continues inside with an ongoing viewing of Xie's film The Boat Has Sailed, Hasn’t It? Sichong Xie will be present during these open hours. Automata Windows presents Sichong Xie's double window installation With the notes of far-away song floating from the other shore. Xie describes the project as " a many layered work which, through singing, filmed image and broken lyrics from three generations’ childhood memory, describes the relationship between myself, who had been based in LA, and my grandmother and my mother, who still lived in Xi’an, China. The videos were majorly shot in three locations in Southern California while my grandmother and my mother singing at the same time of different songs from their own childhood memory. This project conveys the distance physical, emotional and cultural in between a grandmother, her daughter, and her adult granddaughter now living aboard. The twinned experiences of, on the one hand, the luxury of freedom of speech and, on the other, the inevitability of homesickness, are the contradictory fates of the departure from home. But where is home, and what defines it? Familiar melody, smell, or family?" ABOUT SICHONG XIE Sichong Xie seeks to be a cultural organizer who utilizes body-based sculptural forms (masks / costumes / objects) transforming discarded materials and disregarded spaces by using the tools of humor and absurdity. By placing traditional sculptural forms within new sites, materials, and social constructs, she investigates these forms and movements within global communities to re-consider and re-envision shared spaces and performative practices. In the summer of 2016 and 2017, she was a fellowship artist in the Watermill Center for Performance in Long Island, NY. In July 2017, she was an resident artist at the Hauser & Wirth Somerset, U.K. During the three-week intensive workshops and practices, she collaborated with two other dancers, creating a piece called “Walking With The Disappeared”, which is a three hour endurance performance integrated with dance, experimental theatre and installations. Her practice deals with issues of identity, politics, cross-culturalism, and the surreal characteristics of her body in the ever-changing environment. Her current work explores Chinese culture versus American culture, her female gender versus the patriarchy as it is reflected in municipal sculptures in China, and Chinese Communist politics versus the “only one child” generations. Sichong was born in Xi'An, China; she currently works and lives in Los Angeles. AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-apollo-1111-5wallsandtableonthemoon-or-we-came-in-peace-for-all daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606732967500-YDE9N9TYUH2VA89P9G4M/Apollo+%2811%29%2811%29-+5wallsandtableonthemoon%2C+Or+We+Came+In+Peace+For+All.jpeg 2019: Apollo (11)(11): 5wallsandtableonthemoon, Or We Came In Peace For All Apollo (11)(11): 5wallsandtableonthemoon, or We came in Peace for All. July 20, 2019 11:11AM – 07:11PM PST (free; enter and exit at any time) Hosted by Tim Tsang and Kyle Bellucci Johanson with Scarlett Kim Live-streamed in collaboration with Julio Orta, director of MOCAM (Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon) (livestreamed @ http://www.mocam.space/) (realest in-person-experience @ Automata - 504 Chung King Ct, Los Angeles) AUTOMATA welcomes artists Tim Tsang and Kyle Bellucci Johanson with Scarlett Kim and a rotating cohort of guests for their all day event Apollo (11)(11): 5wallsandtableonthemoon. Stop by Automata for a short visit or stay all day for a picnic on the moon. FROM THE ARTISTS: KBJ+TT: Apollo (11)(11): 5wallsandtableonthemoon is a long-form performative activity, like a talk show, or a picnic that happens on the moon, at the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon (MOCAM). We’re gonna have invited guests come talk about all the ideas/politics/culture the moon landing represented, represents, and can represent. Concepts like representation of reality, truth, ideology, intersubjectivity, and power. And there is the picnic with moon food. We’re going to bring some artwork with us too, transtemporal artworks and things like that. JO: That sounds fantastic. TT: We’re gonna read the transcript of the original landing Apollo 11 there, a script of the dialogue recorded by Houston so all of that will be happening, projecting thru the spacetimematter with green screens, screen screens, and projections into the space. JO: That sounds fantastic, I thought you’re gonna do it in Chicago, so it's gonna be a livestream? KBJ: Ya originally we were thinking of doing it in Chicago, but then it made more sense to do it in Los Angeles. Tim has a wife and son, so its easier for me to travel out there and I’m not working during the summer, also we didn’t want to do this remotely as if we were streaming from here and he was streaming from there. JO: Oh yah cool. KBJ: It’d be interesting to think about structuring some of what we’re doing, less like using it as a metaphor, para(ll)e(ll)ing that journey in some kinda way…the transcript deposits specific moments that seem important points in constellation in getting to the moon. Those nodes can instigate specific activities; they don’t need to correlate, but used as an improvisational structure, a way of mapping. TT: Ya, here’s a list: People: Julio, Sam, Scarlett, Von, Kathryn, Stephanie? John? Cauleen? Stuff: 40” TV (clock), tim’s laptop, tim’s iphone #1, tim’s iphone #2, kyle’s laptop (wifi), kyle’s ipad (wifi, play pre-recorded vids), kyle’s iphone (4G), scarlett’s laptop, scarlett’s projector(?), 2 greenscreens (1 6’x9’, 1 10x20s), a lot greenscreen toys, walkietalkies 1 to 1, webcam, closed circuit cameras, greenscreen for floor?, picnic blanket, booties, remote control car. SK: Then there are physical hubs to be aware of, the digital hubs to be aware of/participating with, the fb stream, MOCAM stream, physical audience and activities. I understand your challenge to maintain a free space for improv, emergent behaviors, understanding the potential of what’s there, potential is limitless when you open channels, but it is also hard to make implications that are strong and felt. TT+KBJ+SK: Message has become the medium; message is all that is left, in so many ways. Performance schedule at Automata: Saturday, July 20, 2019 11:11AM – 07:11PM (PST) Note: Apollo(11)(11) can be viewed through Automata's Chung King Court windows and by entering the gallery. Viewers can enter and exit at any time during the stated hours. This event is free; no reservations necessary. ABOUT THE ARTISTS: TIM TSANG is a (performer) (performer). Constantly engaged in infinite play as an accumulative performance strategy, Tsang scripts friendly spaces (theoretical, physical) that invite uncertainty and perplexity. Often through over-identification and over-exposure toward the social, these spaces act as repositories for [critical thinking, contemplation, and escapism] in the context of [event, game, and concert]. timtsangtimtsang.com KLYE BELLUCI JOHANSEN is a Chicago-based artist concerned with transdisciplinarity as a site for expanding critical discourse and political imaginaries. Kyle completed a B.A. in Reconciliation Studies and Art from Bethel University in 2009. In 2008 he studied peace and conflict at the University of Ulster in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and completed an M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in 2016. In 2018 Kyle founded table, a temporary project space dedicated to situating artist’s practices through exhibition, discursive meals, and publication. Currently he is an adjunct faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kyle’s work has recently been on view at Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois), ALTES FINANZAMT (Berlin, Germany), Centro Cultual Metropolitano – MET Quito (Quito, Ecuador), The Bindery Projects (St Paul, Minnesota), the Center for Integrated Media at CalArts (Valencia, California), and Human Resources (Los Angeles, California). kylejohanson.com SCARLETT KIM is a theatre director and artist from Seoul, currently based in Los Angeles. Working across disciplines, mediums, and the globe, she uses performance as intimate exchange, survival ritual, and act of revolution. Recent projects: READY! SET! (Prague Quadrennial), NOMADIC NARRATIVES (Heidi Duckler Dance + Large Shiva + CultureHub LA), KASPAR KASPAR (Pasadena Museum of California Art), THE END, THE END, THE END… (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), AGUANTE PICHIDANGUI (National Council of Culture & The Arts, Chile), and SURPLUS NOVEL (La MaMa Umbria). Artistic Director of The Mortuary, a laboratory for unclassifiable experiences, unusual collaborations, and underserved voices, and Artistic Associate with CultureHub LA, a global art + technology center. MFA in Directing, California Institute of the Arts. BA in Theatre and Performance Studies & Visual Art, University of Chicago. scarlettjkim.com at: AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-wasteland-music-free-concert-to-celebrate-the-opening-night-of-wasteland-summer-academy daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606733163016-FJTZ2YQA9S76RDQ9R9UB/WasteLAnd+Music+Free+Concert+to+celebrate+the+Opening+Night+of+WasteLand+Summer+Academy.jpg 2019: WasteLAnd Music Free Concert to celebrate the Opening Night of WasteLand Summer Academy https://www.automatala.org/2019-michelle-sui daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606733289077-CMHU15ULM2SCFIHVFKZH/Michelle+Sui.jpg 2019: Michelle Sui This week, Automata welcomes Los Angeles artist Michelle Sui for the first on-site session of her 2019-2020 Residency. While in Residence this year, Sui will be developing her film project Street Angel, an ongoing work exploring the fraught onscreen and off screen history of Los Angeles' Chinatown. Street Angel will be presented in progress at Automata in Spring 2019. Additionally, while in residence, Sui will be conducting research and inviting conversation in the neighborhood, and will curate / present two screenings of early Chinese films accompanied by live original music and translation (Spring 2020). All public residency events will be free and open to the public. Michelle Sui’s residency is made possible through the support of the Artists in Communities Program of the California Arts Council. Michelle Sui is a Chinese-born, Los Angeles-raised performer, composer, choreographer, writer and director. Her solo performances, site-specific theatrical experiences, films, and immersive multimedia compositions have been presented in Germany, Italy, the Republic of Georgia, and across the U.S. Much of her work exists at the intersection of forms and draws upon body as geography, language in translation, and the performance of femininity. Songs of Body, her six-part synesthetic song cycle, merges embodied vocal music, scent design, and wearable arduino sensor technology and was a 2016 finalist of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. Michelle's ongoing research in the human voice and women's folk music traditions has taken her to Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and various autonomous regions of China. She frequently leads embodied voice workshops in the U.S. and internationally. Her production company Nü House creates work that facilitates conversations across borders and connects diverse artists and communities around the world. https://www.automatala.org/2019-beyond-the-visual daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606733517837-F3I0294M3FUHZVZAVM6B/Beyond+the+Visual+.jpg 2019: Beyond the Visual https://www.automatala.org/2019-tim-tsang-scarlett-kim-talk-show-episode-1-demonstration daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606733635743-A3L1UX8CBFFZMH27GQ4Q/Tim+Tsang+%26+Scarlett+KIm---+Talk+Show+Episode+1-+Demo%28Nstration%29+.jpeg 2019: Tim Tsang & Scarlett KIm--- Talk Show Episode 1: Demo(Nstration) talk show is a spacetime for being yourself. talk show is the first episode of a new monthly series at Automata, hosted by artists Tim Tsang & Scarlett Kim. Each month, Tim & Scarlett will invite guest(s) that they are sincerely curious about, and share five hours talking together at their pop-up green screen studio at Automata. Tim & Scarlett, the guests, and the audience try to get to know each other and be/become themselves by not-knowing together. For this pilot episode, demo(nstration), Tim and Scarlett will be their own guests. Things We Know The encounter(s) People we want to get to know Tim & Scarlett Automata Every month Five hours Physical audience Green screens, photography lighting, stands Cameras, projectors, monitors, media Live-taping, virtual audience, post-production, archive, telematic hosting Talk show signifiers (chairs, tables, mics, “the yellow couch,” etc.) 1) talk show is a talk show 2) talk show is not a talk show 3) talk show is a talk show 4) talk show + 4th wall 5) Hypotheses/Questions T+S being themselves is an engine for the guest(s) and the audiences to be themselves, and vice versa? Being yourself involves the future self that is yourself, the self becoming self now, and the self having been self (I have in my notes Being Yourself: prerequisite - action - goal, but I can’t formulate this pre/per/post-formance into a sentence.) Where is the site of the work? Where is the show? How can you assess if you’re being yourself? Tim seems to be able to trust himself. Tim will use 5walls, a conceptual system that allows him to be himself, and Scarlett will apply shifting paradigms? Is media a given? do we need more questions? :) Not necssarily But do you have other questions? not really but i prob will havw some on the day of… Should we get rid of this section? no its valuable i think. i just dont have any questions :) its be cool to hear what ppl expect out of a talk show non-talk show This event is free; no reservations necessary. Enter and Exit freely between the hours of 3 pm and 8 pm on September 7. Please bring food if you’d like, and we will also be sharing some snacks! This episode, we will have shinramyun together, among other things. Episodes will be live-taped and presented on the Facebook page following the live event: https://www.facebook.com/talkshowtalkshowtalkshowtalkshowtalkshow Note: You will be able to opt out of being filmed. ABOUT THE ARTISTS: TIM TSANG is a (performer) (performer). Constantly engaged in infinite play as an accumulative performance strategy, Tsang scripts friendly spaces (theoretical, physical) that invite uncertainty and perplexity. Often through over-identification and over-exposure toward the social, these spaces act as repositories for [critical thinking, contemplation, and escapism] in the context of [event, game, and concert]. timtsangtimtsang.com SCARLETT KIM is a Seoul-born, Los Angeles-based theatre director and artist. Working across disciplines, mediums, and the globe, she uses performance as intimate exchange, survival ritual, and act of revolution. Recent projects: READY! SET! (Prague Quadrennial), TALENT SHOW (Love’s Remedies + The Reef), NOMADIC NARRATIVES (Heidi Duckler Dance + Large Shiva + CultureHub LA), THE END, THE END, THE END… (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), AGUANTE PICHIDANGUI (National Council of Culture & The Arts, Chile), and SURPLUS NOVEL (La MaMa Umbria). Director of The Mortuary, a laboratory for unclassifiable practices in life and art, and Artistic Associate with CultureHub LA, a global art + technology community. MFA in Directing, California Institute of the Arts. BA, University of Chicago. scarlettjkim.com at: AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-concerto-for-having-fun-with-elvis-on-stage-daniel-corral daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606733750383-7QN4PRV5XMQGUD8Q9EFH/Concerto+for+Having+Fun+with+Elvis+on+Stage+DANIEL+CORRAL.jpg 2019: Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage DANIEL CORRAL Friday October 18, 2019 Two shows! 8:30 PM and 10:30 PM World Premiere Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage DANIEL CORRAL Automata presents the premiere of DANIEL CORRAL's Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage (CHFES), a collaboration with director/performer Alexander Gedeon and the Now Hear Ensemble. CHFES combines live music and theatrical performance to reframe the cultural significance of the “worst album in rock and roll history.” “Having Fun with Elvis on Stage” is a 1973 album collaged entirely from Elvis speaking on stage between songs at live concerts - no music. AllMusic’s Mark Deming declared “hearing it is like witnessing a car wreck, leaving onlookers too horrified and too baffled to turn away.” Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage reimagines this vilified recording as the libretto for a sort of ghost opera, combining pop art nostalgia with new technology and classical instruments to create a memetic hologram of the endless purgatory of celebrity afterlife. Members of the Now Hear Ensemble (Federico Llach, Brian Walsh, and myself) will perform Corral's original live musical score along with the original LP as if we were the pit orchestra for opera or musical theater - sometimes harmonizing with the words, painting emotions in the spaces between, or reacting theatrically. Meanwhile, Alexander Gedeon’s "Elvis" persona becomes a vehicle to explore all things banal and absurd in pop idolatry, as well as the performative aspects of 'stage presence'. The performance of CHFES will be preceded by a screening of Count In, a video piece by Daniel Corral that combines the voice of Poly Styrene (from 70s British punk band X-Ray Spex) with musical minimalism and colorful video. The result is a mix of Steve Reich, James Turrell, X-Ray Spex, LaMonte Young, and Sesame Street Pinball Number Counts. Costume Design by X. Hill Two Shows! Friday, October 18, 2019 8:30 PM and 10:30 PM $20 General Admission $15 Students/ Seniors/ Automata Members Get Tickets ABOUT THE ARTISTS Born and raised in Alaska, Daniel Corral's unique musical voice finds outlet in accordion orchestras, handmade music boxes, post-punk opera, microtonal electronics, puppetry, site-specific installations, chamber music, and inter-disciplinary collaborations. His next album will be released in 2020 by MicroFest Records, featuring the Los Angeles Electric 8. Alexander Gedeon is a stage director of new opera and music theater born and based in Los Angeles. Previous collaborations include The Industry/LA Phil, Long Beach Opera and San Diego Opera. In March 2020, Gedeon will direct Sanctuaries, a site-specific chamber opera about gentrification for Third Angle New Music in Portland, Oregon. The Now Hear Ensemble combines the classical concert experience with electronics, multimedia, and theater. Recent venues include REDCAT, Stanford University, UCSB, UCSD, and UC Berkeley. Daniel Corral website: spinalfrog.com SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/spinalfrog Facebook: facebook.com/spinalfrogmusic Twitter: twitter.com/spinalfrog at: AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-relics-of-the-hypnotist-war daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606734102468-WRQTS21XLY8HBGNV5S3B/relics+of+the+hypnotist+war2.jpg 2019: Relics Of The Hypnotist War Automata presents the Los Angeles premiere of Relics of the Hypnotist War, a quietly stunning work by master storyteller, Ryan Griffith. Relics evokes one of the most tragic epochs in human history: the hypnotist invasion and subsequent sleep epidemic that ravaged civilization. In this singular narrative experience—part museum, part micro-theatre, fifteen participants will be given rare access to the collection of relics from the epoch, led by a curator, whose speaking dream conjures back all that was lost during this sad and terrible time. “Relics of the Hypnotist War” asks what could happen if we have all our senses, perhaps even our consciousness, shut off? This turns what initially seems like a curio shop escape room into an allegory or political fable. - Beth Accomando, Nicholas McVicker, KPBS "Relics" is definitely a metaphor for the world losing consciousness and conscience. Although the narrative itself is not grounded in any time, there’s a huge argument to be made that we are still in the midst of hypnotists and we are still being put to sleep. -Ryan Griffith WHEN: Friday, November 1st: 8 p.m. Saturday, November 2nd: 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday, November 3rd: 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, November 8th: 8 p.m. Saturday, November 9th: 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday, November 10th: 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Seating is limited to 15 people. Reservations strongly suggested. $25 general $20 students, seniors and members BUY TICKETS ABOUT THE ARTISTS Ryan Griffith, Writer and Creator Ryan was the resident storyteller for The Lounge on KPBS radio, San Diego’s NPR affiliate, where he read from his acclaimed series The Midnight Pharmacy. In 2015-2016, his narrative installation Missing was featured at the Halka Gallery in Istanbul and the Bonnafont Gallery in San Francisco. Relics of the Hypnotist War, his most recent work, has been running in San Diego since 2017. Scott Gist, Director Scott studied theater directing at Cal State LA, film directing at LACC, and screenwriting at UCLA. He directed Macbeth at Cal State LA's Intimate Theater, starred in Strindberg's The Father at SMC, co-wrote the award-winning short film Hello Mom, and directed the short puppet film Horse on Fire, which recently screened at the Almeria Western Film Festival in Spain. He has also been an artistic collaborator on Relics of the Hypnotist War in San Francisco and San Diego. Tane Kawasaki, The Doorwoman (SAG/AFTRA, AEA eligible) is an LA-based theatre artist and educator. Recent credits include: Cleo, Theo & Wu (Theatre of Note); Wood Boy Dog Fish (Rogue Artists Ensemble); Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin (Rogue Artists Ensemble in association with East West Players); Sound House (Automata) a task-oriented meditation on the physical shaping of sound, minutemen, and bricks; company player with Chamber Shakespeare. She has a MFA in Acting from CalArts. Mark Simon, The Curator Mark has appeared in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of Measure for Measure and Henry V with Meryl Streep and William Hurt, The American Pig with Henry Winkler, Hagar’s Children, and Naked Lunch. On film he played The Man Who Doesn’t in the Academy Award-winning short Don’t. Mark performs with The Boyfriend, a cabaret trio who sprang fully blown from the hip of Ms. Vaginal Davis. Max Daily, Artistic Collaborator Max is a San Diego based artist working in visual art and performance, incorporating media ranging from drawing and sculpture to puppetry and mime. A butcher by trade, Daily is also the proprietor of Oslo Sardine Bar, currently on national tour. He was the 2018 San Diego artist of the year and his latest work Signal was performed at the Old Globe’s New Voices festival. Relics of the Hypnotist War Website: https://www.relicsofthehypnotistwar.com KPBS Story: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/jan/11/relics-hypnotist-war-offers-allegory-our-times/ San Diego City Best Story: http://sdcitybeat.com/culture/features/ryan-griffith’s-cabinets-of-curiosities/ at: AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2019-southland-ensemble-20192020-season-program-1-fluxus-ben-patterson daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606733992539-GLC9TWVVSAPRYLLN4OKK/SOUTHLAND+ENSEMBLE++++++++2019-2020+Season++Program+1-+FLUXUS-+BEN+PATTERSON.jpg 2019: SOUTHLAND ENSEMBLE 2019-2020 Season Program 1: FLUXUS: BEN PATTERSON https://www.automatala.org/2019-sparkleblobs-nutcracker-sweet-something-completely-else daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606734204179-L2C4ALFIIDHJO8KNSSFW/Sparkleblob%27s+NUTCRACKER+SWEET+Something+Completely+Else.png 2019: Sparkleblob's NUTCRACKER SWEET Something Completely Else https://www.automatala.org/2020-feat-los-angeles-electroacoustic-ensemble daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606806070881-PNR5SMR8BNLPLHCTH2WI/%28feat.%29+an+evening+of+collaboratively+composed+electroacoustic+mini+concerti++presented+by+LOS+ANGELES+ELECTROACOUSTIC+ENSEMBLE.jpg 2020: (feat.) LOS ANGELES ELECTROACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE The Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble (LAEE) partners with composer-performers from Los Angeles to present an evening of new electroacoustic concerto works at AUTOMATA. In collaboration with the members of LAEE, the program includes performances by Jordan Curcuruto (percussion), Garrett Wingfield (saxophone), Diana Wade (viola), Elizabeth Chavez (voice), and also features a premieres with composers Adam Zuckerman and Lucy McKnight. LAEE is an electronic chamber music quartet formed in 2018, comprised of composer-performers Marcus Carline, Zaq Kenefick, Cristina Lord, and Glen Gray. The ensemble was formed to pursue common goals of establishing and improving standards for the composition and performance of electronic chamber music and uses laptops, hardware synthesizers, and various electronic tools to explore musical techniques such as signal processing, digital synthesis, and sampling. LAEE has performed at various festivals including Oh My Ears in Phoenix, AZ, the annual Bach Marathon at Union Station in Los Angeles, and the Hear Now Music Festival in Los Angeles. https://laelectroacousticensemble.wordpress.com/ General Admission: $15 Members, Students, Seniors: $12 Tickets This performance takes place at: AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2020-world-premiere-of-zach-dorns-sponge-hollow daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606806524858-X8SX47DILK9LJCCLR4H5/Sponge+Hollow.jpg 2020: World Premiere Of Zach Dorn's SPONGE HOLLOW https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606806783321-1IWZAGMRCGTVACYKZ1MT/selkie.jpg 2020: World Premiere Of Zach Dorn's SPONGE HOLLOW https://www.automatala.org/2020-tim-tsang-plays-tim-tsang-a-piano-recital daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606807183424-RK7LH5QMIOQFMDYAH7UV/Tim+Tsang+Plays+Tim+Tsang-++A+Piano+Recital+.jpg 2020: Tim Tsang Plays Tim Tsang: A Piano Recital https://www.automatala.org/2020-jacob-kirkgegaard-and-mariel-roberts-with-special-performance-by-matt-barbier daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606807326578-VFBZE6XRBV70BVFYBQD2/Jacob+Kirkgegaard+and+Mariel+Roberts++with+special+performance+by+Matt+Barbier.jpg 2020: Jacob Kirkgegaard and Mariel Roberts with special performance by Matt Barbier Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkgegaard and NYC cellist Mariel Roberts will perform at Automata, as the final stop along the route of the proposed border wall. Between February 17th and 22nd American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts and Danish sound artist and composer Jacob Kirkegaard are embarking on their first collaboration to create an electro-acoustic, evening length work in response to the border "wall" which is meant to divide the US and Mexico. Using extra sensitive equipment, Kirkegaard and Roberts are traveling in the border region between Texas and California to capture the sound of the objects and atmospheres which define the experience of the region. The source material for this work is captured by attaching vibration sensors directly onto the border fence, which make it possible to hear the resonances of the various types of metallic structures which make up the barrier. The piece is being created during this one-week field trip along the over 600 mile border fence. The resulting performance will be a dialogue between the cello and with the internal sounds of the open environment as well as the inner subtle vibrations of the wall. At Automata Mariel and Jacob will be giving the first public presentation of this work. Trombonist Matt Barbier will open for them presenting solo works based in physical phenomena of instruments. TICKETS $15 General Admission $10 Members, Students, Seniors ABOUT THE ARTISTS American cellist Mariel Roberts is widely recognized not just for her virtuosic performances, but as a “fearless explorer” in her field (---Chicago Reader). Her ravenous appetite for collaboration and experimentation as an interpreter, improvisor, and composer have helped create a body of work which bridges avant-garde, contemporary, classical, improvised, and traditional music. Roberts is widely recognized for her “technical and interpretive mastery” (I care if you listen) and for performances which seethe with “excruciating intensity” (The Whole Note). Roberts has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across four continents, most notably as a member and co-director of the Wet Ink Ensemble (named “The Best Classical Music Ensemble of 2018” by The New York Times), as well as with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Mivos Quartet, Bang on a Can All Stars, and Ensemble Signal. She performs regularly on major stages for new music such as the Lincoln Center Festival (NYC), Wien Modern (Austria), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), and numerous others. Roberts has been featured wide variety of outstanding recordings, and her compositions have been performed at venues such as Merkin Hall and Miller Theater in New York City. Roberts has released two solo albums of new works commissioned for her. The first, “Nonextraneous Sounds” (2012), was noted for it's “technical flair and exquisite sensitivity” (Composers Forum). 2017's “Cartography” (2017), solidified Roberts' position as “one of the most adventurous figures on New York’s new music scene—one with a thorough grounding in classical tradition but a ravenous appetite for and tireless discipline in new work.” (Bandcamp). Her close collaborators have spanned a wide range of genres and include some of the most important figures on the contemporary and experimental scene, such as George Lewis, Alex Mincek, Tim Hecker, Nate Wooley, M. Lamar, Patrick Higgins (Zs), Ingrid Laubrock, Jeffrey Mumford, Sam Pluta, Eric Wubbels, and Ambrose Akinmusire. The sound art of Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on complex, unnoticed or unapproachable conditions and environments. One of contemporary sound art's most subtle, intriguing figures., his works have treated themes such as radioactivity in Chernobyl and Fukushima, melting ice in the Arctic and border walls in Palestine. His two recent works are immersive acoustic explorations into global waste management and of processes generally unfolding when a human being dies. Since 2006 Kirkegaard been extensively researching, recording and creating works using otoacoustic emissions; tones generated from the actual human ear. The core element and method of his work derive from the use of sound recordings of the tangible aspects from its intangible themes. Kirkegaard has presented his works at galleries, museums, biennales and concert spaces throughout the world, including MoMA in New York, LOUISIANA - Museum of Modern Art and ARoS in Denmark, The Menil Collection and at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, The Sydney Biennale in Australia, Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan. Jacob Kirkegaard has gallery representation through Fridman Gallery (New York, USA) and Galleri Tom Christoffersen (Copenhagen, DK). Kirkegaard's sound works have been released on labels such as Important Records (USA), Touch (UK), mAtter (JAP) and Posh Isolation (DK). He is a founding member of the sound art collective freq_out as well as the not-for-profit arts organisation TOPOS. More artistically minded than field recordings, more naturally hewn than noise tapes, Kirkegaard amplifies hidden worlds into evocative drifts. (Rolling Stone, December 2015) Kirkegaard has countered Duchamp’s dictum, “One can look at seeing, one can’t hear hearing.” (Douglas Kahn, Earside Out, 2014.) His work channels an access to an inner world. (A.H. Neset, The Wire, 2009) Matt Barbier is an LA based musician focused on experimental intonation, noise, and the physical processes of his instrument. His playing has been described by the LA Times as being "of intense, brilliant, virtuosic growling that gave the striking impression that Barbier was dismantling the instrument while playing it," by the Wire as “exploring the nooks of instrumental tone far beyond the reach of most mortals,” and by the New Yorker as being a "diabolically inventive trombonist-composer." Matt engages in collaborative relationships with a range of musicians including Michelle Lou, David Brynjar Franzson, Catherine Lamb, Kevin Drumm, and Katherine Young. As an interpreter he has also given world premieres by a broad spectrum of composers including Liza Lim, Richard Barrett, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Jacob Kirkegaard, and others. Matt is a member of RAGE Thormbones, gnarwhallaby, wasteLAnd music, wildUp, and is an active soloist on low brass instruments. He teaches at CalArts and Los Angeles City College (LACC). Matt has presented work for the Monday Evening Concerts, LA Phil's Green Umbrella, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Spor, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Bludenz Tage zeitgemäßer , Indexical, and numersous other venues. He has been in residence at Harvard (HGNM), UCSD, Stanford, Princeton, UCSC, Columbia, NYU, and UCLA, and released work on Carrier, Populist, Mode, Hat Hut, Innova, Faux Amis, and Kairos Records. Additionally, he has released a technical manual for trombonists on the production and integration of lip multiphonics and split tones. Matt has written music and created sound installations for the Factory Seconds Brass Trio, WasteLAnd, gnarwhallaby, the Exploritorium, RAGE Thormbones, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, SASSAS, Machine Project, LACMA, and the Getty Villa, as well as with digital media artist Tom Leeser. https://www.automatala.org/2020-puesto-de-palabras-virginia-grise daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606807640715-7TRJ27OALHSC6SROOSY8/Puesto+de+Palabras++Open+story+sharing+and+writing+space+with+Virginia+Grise.jpg 2020: Puesto de Palabras Virginia Grise Inspired by her grandfather and uncle—Chinese merchants who operated a fruit and vegetable puesto in a Mexican market in Monterrey, Mexico—theater artist Virginia Grise opens up shop daily at Automata Arts and celebrates the day-to-day neighborhood encounters that “open hours” can foster. Drop in on Grise as she makes her writing practice public and invites you to share your own stories of the places, people and events that have shaped your personal narrative. Puesto de Palabras is part of the development of rasgos asiáticos, a site-specific performance installation that premieres at Automata March 19–22, 2020. rasgos asiáticos delves into the intertwined histories of Mexican and Chinese immigration in the U.S. In a daily ritual of public interaction and exchange, Grise explores what it means to find one’s place in a new community, and gathers individual perspectives from the people whose lives are anchored in, or intersect, with Los Angeles’ Chinatown. FREE // No RSVP Required Upcoming rasgos asiáticos Events: These Are My Papers A Performance Talk by Virginia Grise February 27, 2020 at 7:00 pm // Gateway to Nature Center at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument 130 Paseo De La Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012 March 2, 2020 at 5:30 pm // ArtChangeUS at California Institute of the Arts 24700 McBean Pkwy, Valencia, CA 91355 Part lecture and part performance, award-winning theater artist Virginia Grise speaks about moving bodies and porous borders as she shares both personal stories and historical research related to her newest theater project, rasgos asiáticos, a site-specific performance installation that premieres in Los Angeles later this March. For details and related events, visit centerfornewperformance.org. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net Photo: Archival family photograph, courtesy of the artist. https://www.automatala.org/2020-southland-ensemble-music-of-alvin-singleton daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606808008359-O4B5U1JA6DLUILYR8R7N/SOUTHLAND+ENSEMBLE+MUSIC+OF+ALVIN+SINGLETON.jpg 2020: SOUTHLAND ENSEMBLE MUSIC OF ALVIN SINGLETON Automata is excited to host Southland Ensemble's sixth season with the diverse, genre-bending chamber works of Atlanta-based composer Alvin Singleton. For over thirty years, Alvin Singleton has been devising compositions blending written music with improvisation in the restrictive world of contemporary concert music. His work skillfully joins the European tradition of Lutoslawski and Ligeti with the African American traditions of James Brown, Mahalia Jackson, John Coltrane, Dolphy and the AACM. These works are rarely performed on the west coast - the ensemble is very excited to be able to share them with you all on this evening! Et Nunc (bass clarinet, alto flute, bass) Be Natural (viola, cello, bass) Helga (violin, viola, cello) Somehow We Can (string quartet) Intezar (viola, cello, bass) ABOUT SOUTHLAND ENSEMBLE Formed in 2013, Southland Ensemble is contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to the interpretation and performance of experimental music. The ensemble consists of seven core members and often collaborates with guests as the music requires. Each member of the ensemble is proficient on a least one or more traditional Western instruments, as well as spoken word and found objects - stones, radios, sheet metal, and household items to name a few. It is the mission of Southland Ensemble to present experimental music to a wide variety of audiences through the mediums of interactive concerts, lectures and workshops. The ensemble believes strongly in the power of creative programming to educate and enhance the audience’s understanding of an historical or artistic period. Each concert is carefully programmed to reflect a specific creative period in a location or composer's career. Since its formation, the ensemble has presented works by Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley, James Tenney, Alison Knowles and Laurence Crane, among others. www.southlandensemble.com "Southland Ensemble continues to add an important dimension to the cultural life of Los Angeles with outstanding performances of the late 20th century masters" - Sequenza21 TICKETS: General Admission: $15 Members, Students, Seniors: $12 at AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2020-michelle-sui-beyond-the-image daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606808174662-S63K11SIUVSXCI4WGWPH/BEYOND+THE+IMAGE-+A+CHINESE+FILM+SERIES+A+series+of+three+films+and+conversation+with+curator%3Aartist+MICHELLE+SUI..jpg 2020: Michelle Sui Beyond the Image BEYOND THE IMAGE: A CHINESE FILM SERIES A series of three films and conversation with curator/artist MICHELLE SUI. (Streaming live on Facebook Live; free) Automata presents BEYOND THE IMAGE: A CHINESE FILM SERIES, curated by Los Angeles multidisciplinary artist Michelle Sui. This program includes three films, with live introductions by Sui, and will be streamed on April 18, 2020 on Facebook live. The films will be followed by a live Conversation with Michelle Sui and Chinatown community members. BEYOND THE IMAGE: A CHINESE FILM SERIES is a part of Michelle Sui’s extended residency with Automata this year, centered on her Street Angel Project, and with funding from the California Arts Council Artists in Communities program. The Street Angel Project is Sui’s ongoing project spanning over three years of research and engagement with the Chinatown community in Los Angeles, resulting in various iterations of performance and video in partnership with local organizations, artists, community leaders, and audiences. The three films in the series have been critical resources for Sui’s ongoing research. BEYOND THE IMAGE: A CHINESE FILM SERIES will present each film in its original language with English subtitles. The films include The Goddess (1934), directed by Wu Yonggang, Spring in a Small Town (1948), directed by Fei Mu , and Street Angel (1937), Directed by Yuan Muzhi. During her residency at Automata, Sui has conducted further research into the complex history of the neighborhood. She has become a presence in the community, and has been in conversation with its residents, especially Chinese-American senior citizens who are trying to maintain their daily routines despite the recent housing developments and gentrification in the neighborhood. In addition to talking with them and hearing their stories, Sui presented street performances of Chinese folk songs from classic films, bringing familiar entertainment to an audience that often gets overlooked in the arts hub Chinatown has become. Each streamed film will be introduced live by Michelle Sui. The final film will be followed by a live discussion of the central themes of the films, as well Sui’s Chinatown residency, with stories and insights from her time in the neighborhood. This project was made possible with support from Automata and the California Arts Council CAC), a state agency, and through the Automata Residency Program, with support from the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Link to Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1152336478444715/ Visit this event page for more information and streaming links to the films and conversation. BEYOND THE IMAGE: A CHINESE FILM SERIES Event Details: 2 PM: The Goddess (1934) // Directed by Wu Yonggang // 73 min Film icon Yuan Lingyu stars in this cult classic silent film about a young mother who resorts to prostitution in order to send her son to school in 1930’s Shanghai. A classic Chinese story and archetype, played hauntingly by Yuan, whose own life too tragically mimics her onscreen fate. 4 PM: Street Angel (1937) // Directed by Yuan Muzhi // 91 min A slapstick classic following two displaced sisters in 1930’s Shanghai, Street Angel launched the career of cultural icon Zhou Xuan, who sings two refugee songs in the film that has since become household classics: “The Wandering Songstress” and “Four Season Song”. 7 PM: Spring in a Small Town (1948) // Directed by Fei Mu // 98 min Folk music and a female protagonist’s thoughts narrate this classic Chinese telling of a complicated love story. Different from other Chinese films of its time in its political neutrality and female perspective, Spring in a Small Town is deemed by many as the greatest Chinese film of all time. 9 PM: Conversation with Beyond the Image curator / multidisciplinary artist Michelle Sui and guest speakers to be announced soon. ABOUT THE ARTIST Michelle Sui (Curator) is a Chinese-born, Los Angeles-raised multidisciplinary artist, composer, and director. Much of her work exists at the intersection of performance, music, dance, film, and new media and draws upon body as geography, language in translation, the performance of femininity, and the union of voice and body. Her multimedia works have been presented in Germany, Italy, the Republic of Georgia, and the U.S. Her research and performance in women’s folk music traditions has taken her to Eastern Europe, China, and the Caucasus and she frequently teaches embodied voice workshops in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. Michelle also works as a writer, producer, and curator and is the founder of Nü House, a curatorial platform that facilitates conversations across borders and connects diverse artists, organizers, and communities through collaborative interdisciplinary projects in different cities worldwide. Website: www.michellesui.com Instagram: @michelle.sui https://www.automatala.org/2020-5walls-with-mage daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606808313746-HLDAA3ME2T5HIY8L7TKP/5WALLS+WITH+MAGE.jpeg 2020: 5walls with MAGE As part of the ongoing 5walls Residency with Automata, we invite you to a livestreamed event this Friday May 15 at 5:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time. 5walls will be spending some quality time with the one and only Mage. Click on this link to join the live event: www.facebook.com/timtsangtimtsang. Mage is a songwriter, performer and music teacher based in the Antelope Valley, CA. Mage sings and plays guitar, piano and base, and holds an MFA from the Performer-Composer program, Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, and Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Vancouver Island University. Mage is a Teacher of Music (Nationally Certified) and is also a Certified Macintosh Technician. "I call myself Mage. The internet screen name I used as a child was madmetalmage, so I stuck with that as the URL for my website and shortened my stage name to Mage." Some info about 5walls: 5walls is a method for long-form intimate exchanges between two or more people. Driven by a sincere attempt at creating and practicing honest communal presence with friends and strangers which invites intensity, intimacy, reflexivity, and care, 5walls exchanges have, since 2016, manifested as performances, paintings, events, games, interviews, picnics, and art exhibitions internationally. 5walls is currently in “residence-at-a-distance” (thanks COVID you suck!!!) at Automata in Los Angeles, hosting regular events in 2020. (https://timtsangtimtsang.com/). AUTOMATAis located at: 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 www.automata-la.org automata-la@sbcglobal.net https://www.automatala.org/2020-ray-chang-automated daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://www.automatala.org/2020-moira-lael-macdonald-blue-waves daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://www.automatala.org/2020-gabrielle-civil-artistinresidence-september-115-2020 daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://www.automatala.org/2020-patrick-michael-ballard-fools-window daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606809464410-XHO0F0J70LVWV5P5TYO9/Patrick+Ballard+Fool%27s+Window.jpg 2020: Patrick Michael Ballard Fools Window This season, AUTOMATA is hosting a series of individual artist’s residencies—a program we launched to serve creative process and new work development in the field of puppetry and object performance, while we are unable to gather for events. Each Resident Artist has 24 hour access to the full space, allowing for uninterrupted work-time and focus. PATRICK MICHAEL BALLARD is the fifth artist in the curremt residency series. Patrick started his residency by culminating his long in-the-works first round of "scene objects" for his newest collaborative theater piece, Fool's Window. While some of these objects have been in the works for multiple years, others were pulled out of the garbage or found under the seat of his car on the way to the space. Patrick is bringing this nuanced, grimy, intricate, and cosmological crew of scene objects together for a work that is a deeply collaborative occult ritual and absurdist community theater all in one. His collaborators were invited to Automata (one at a time) to interact with his scene objects within theatrical tableaux that he constructed, disinfected, and left for them to engage with. The objects were chosen based on preliminary conversations and the setting of intentions—not unlike pulling cards from tarot or casting rune-laden bones, rolling dice or flipping coins to consult the ancient oracles. Patrick's collaborators currently include Stephanie Mei Huang, Brian Getnick, Paul Outlaw, Eli Klausner, Melissa Achten Klausner, and Tim Tsang, who Patrick proclaims has become his guardian angel and deadpan psychopomp during his time with Automata. (Tim is also Automata's Creative Technologist,) From their initial interactions at Automata, a collaboration takes place with Patrick in a remote corner of the world. Thus far those collaborations have involved telepathic messaging sent through the psychonautical vessel receiver of the theater (it wasn’t in the technical manual, but it’s there if you look between the atoms, strings, and spirits), auto-poems generated in response to live feed and relayed as text messages to the performers, and conversations over video chat. During the rest of his time at Automata, Patrick is focused on documenting these initial rituals and possibilities for the cosmology of objects. All of this will construct an archive of documents and pieces made within the project’s parameters for the sake of this ongoing work, which will nomadically roam like an existential circus on an asteroid belt and aggregate more collaborators and scene objects as he, like an idol-crafting fool in the darkness, casts the sputtering calculations of object oriented nonsense into the hands of others to reveal their collective symbolic order. Join the live-stream on our FB page HERE at any time between 2-3:30 pm Wednesday September 30. The 2020 Automata Residency Project is made possible with generous support from The Jim Henson Foundation and the LA Arts Covid-19 Relief Fund, funded by the J.Paul Getty Trust in partnership with the California Community Foundation. Our Residency Projects are also funded, in part, through the ongoing support of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the LA County Arts Commission. PATRICK MICHAEL BALLARD Patrick Michael Ballard is a Los Angeles based storyteller utilizing performance, sculpture, creative writing, illustration, installation, and sound to develop the shifting ground of contemporary narrative form. Patrick has exhibited his work at Machine Project, the Les Urbaines Festival in Lausanne, Switzerland, MaRS, 356 Mission, Moskowitz Bayse, ltd, Cirrus Gallery, and has exhibited public sculpture on the facade of the Gamble House. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and his BFA from CSU Long Beach. Website www.patrickmichaelballard.com/ Instagram :: @patrickmichaelballard https://www.automatala.org/2020-womxn-in-windows-curator-zehra-ahmed daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606809644673-IV2Z15QSR5C3G2M97V9G/Womxn+in+Windows+founder+and+curator+Zehra+Ahmed-.jpg 2020: Womxn in Windows curator Zehra Ahmed Womxn in Windows 2020 Video Works by Womxn in 15 windows along Chung King Road Exhibition dates: October 15 - November 15, 2020 The October 17 event is free and open to the public. We ask all guests to RSVP in order to maintain social distancing guidelines. AUTOMATA is thrilled to participate in the second annual exhibition of WOMXN IN WINDOWS featuring video works by eight womxn filmmakers and video artists. The public exhibition will be on view 24 hours a day from October 15 - November 15, 2020 in over 15 storefront windows along Chinatown’s Chung King Road in Los Angeles, including Automata's storefront windows. Artists Christine Yuan, Everlane Moraes, Ja’Tovia Gary, Kilo Kish, Kya Lou, Remie Akl, Rikki Wright, and Sylvie Weber examine the intertwined relationships between culture, religion and society for Womxn in Windows 2020. Guests can watch the videos from the street, accessible to all, and tune in to the audio of each work via a QR code on the window in a socially distant and safe viewing environment. Videos will also be streamed online. Follow @womxinwindows and visit womxninwindows.com for the latest info, public programs, and attendance guidelines. From Womxn in Windows founder and curator Zehra Ahmed: "This has been a heavy year for all of us in America and across the world. In the midst of a global pandemic, movements for Black lives and Indigenous sovereignty, environmental disasters, extreme income inequality, mass corruption, dictatorships across countries, religious injustices and ethnic cleansing, an impending election and a cultural revolution, it felt more necessary than ever to produce this year’s exhibition, support artists financially and to continue engaging with audiences not naturally inclined to seek such work out.“ “As an immigrant womxn, I am reminded that I have grown personally because of the people I have encountered, the values that I have learned along the way, and the multiple experiences I have had across cultures, societies, and faiths. These experiences have led me to believe that we all want the same thing; a just and free life where we can all receive equal rights, love and recognition because of who we uniquely are. We are all different and that is our strength.” Screening In Automata's Windows: ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE by Ja'Tovia Gary Ja’Tovia Gary is an American artist and filmmaker whose work seeks to liberate the distorted histories through which Black life is often viewed, while fleshing out a nuanced and multivalent Black interiority. Through documentary film and experimental video art, she charts the ways structures of power shape our perceptions around representation, race, gender, sexuality and violence. The artist earned her MFA in Social Documentary Filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 2017 Gary was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Filmmaking. Her award-winning films, An Ecstatic Experience and Giverny I (Négresse Impériale) have screened at festivals, cinemas, and institutions worldwide including Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Whitney Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Atlanta Film Festival, the Schomburg Center, MoMa PS1, MoCA Los Angeles, Harvard Film Archives, New Orleans Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and elsewhere. She has received generous support from Sundance Documentary fund, the Jerome Foundation, Doc Society, among others. In 2016 Gary participated in the Terra Foundation Summer Residency program in Giverny, France. She was a 2018-2019 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. Gary is a 2019 Creative Capital Awardee and a Field of Vision Fellow. For more information about WOMXN IN WINDOWS , including biographies of the artists, click HERE. AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 www.automatala.org https://www.automatala.org/2020-kendra-ware-performance-experiments daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1606809897911-PH22NCUD1ECO0WKD0YCS/KENDRA+WARE+PERFORMANCE+EXPERIMENTS.jpg 2020: KENDRA WARE PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTS https://www.automatala.org/womxn-in-windows-2020 daily 0.75 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1614281232426-74VDO9I0NB6W8F23B010/womxn+in+windows+2020.jpg Womxn in Windows 2020 An Ecstatic Experience (JaTovia Gary, 2015, as part of Womxn in Windows 2020) https://www.automatala.org/2021-susansimpson daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1614288607858-U12BFLXCZ73KOTGBO0X1/Susan+puppet.jpg 2021: Susan Simpson Susan Simpson is developing a series of puppet improvisations entitled Incandescent and Undivided. Susan Simpson is a Los Angeles based, multidisciplinary artist and designer and Co-Artistic Director of Automata. Her practice includes puppet theater, dioramas and animation. She makes performances and interactive public art works that engage viewers in intimate viewing. Her works often investigate the history, mythology and social dynamics of the sites where they are located. Much of her performance work has been focused on the history of liberational thought and action in the queer communities. Website :: www.susanwsimpson.com Instagram :: @ssimpsonla https://www.automatala.org/2020-benni-quintero daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1614290244137-DSJTSX4WM4OJIN7CF3JK/benni+quintero+art+pic.jpeg 2020: Benni Quintero https://www.automatala.org/2021-ramona-apthorp daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1614290489519-CRTJ28YLGG9ZW91XACH0/Ramona+Apthorp.jpg 2021: Ramona Apthorp Ramona Apthorp is a Los Angeles based artist who uses a combination of whimsical and often comedic imagery to tell stories of personal traumatic events. She has worked as a puppet fabricator, writer, comics artist, installation artist, filmmaker and creature creator. She earned her undergraduate degree from CalArts and currently works as a freelancer writer for The Hard Times. Website :: www.ramonamakespuppets.com Instagram ::@stink_punk_comix Instagram :: @apthorp_puppets https://www.automatala.org/2021-sichong-xie-1 daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1614290633955-CXV54U5XMEMM1FWM1F2B/Sichong+Xie.jpg 2021: Sichong Xie Sichong Xie seeks to be a cultural organizer who utilizes body-based sculptural forms (masks / costumes / objects) transforming discarded materials and disregarded spaces by using the tools of humor and absurdity. She investigates these forms and movements within global communities to re-consider and re-envision shared spaces and performative practices.Her most recent multi-media multi-channel installation Do Donkeys Know Politics, Scaffold Series I is currently on view at USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA. She has been a resident artist at artist at Skowhegan, Hauser & Wirth Somerset and at The Watermill Center in Long Island, NY. Website :: www.sichongxie.com Instagram :: @sichongxie https://www.automatala.org/2021-green-boxes-with-friends-a-5-hour-zoom-call daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1614290830083-PDA9WD3PTFZTZC8VE1O6/IMG_5660.JPG 2021: Green Boxes with Friends a 5 hour zoom call Hello Friends, I'm thankful to be Resident Artist at Automata LosAngeles (Jan22-Feb11), and will be hosting a live "5 hour Zoom call" tomorrow at 12-5pm PST. The official title is "GREEN BOXES WITH FRIENDS: A BASIC 5 HOUR ZOOM CALL WHERE EVERYONE HAS THE SAME GREEN BACKGROUND" This will be a) livestreamed on this Automata FB event page here: https://fb.me/e/18naw5OrI + b) open for anyone to join on Zoom here (dm me for passcode): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85090513524... *If joining on Zoom, please download this green picture to use as your Zoom Background: https://www.mediafire.com/.../lxepih7y5isdu9z/green.png/file **My motivation for doing this event is to gather with friends and future friends in a playful and serious manner, attempting to consistently play a bunch of #infinitegames for 5 hours. I really should have titled it "Infinite Games for 5 hours", but maybe it's too late and we're more familiar with Zoom calls anyway...Should be fun! Totally not mandatory but if you’re curious, “infinite games” is a loose reference to the book "Finite and Infinite Games" by James P. Carse. Full PDF —> https://wtf.tw/ref/carse.pdf I’ll talk about rules of the “game(s)” as we all come online tomorrow See you then! Sincerely, Tim // Tim Tsang is a trans-disciplinary artist engaged in infinite play as an accumulative performance strategy. Tsang scripts friendly spaces—theoretical, physical—that invite perplexity and warmth, and serve as repositories for critical thinking, contemplation and escapism in the contexts of exhibitions, academic conferences, events, games and concerts. Often through over-identification and over-exposure toward the social, these spaces activate poetic explorations, re-framings, reflections and expansions of interactive creative processes. Website : timtsangtimtsang.com Instagram : instagram.com/johnscage FB : facebook.com/timtsangtimtsang https://www.automatala.org/2021-garden-party-with-spatial-audio daily 0.75 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1614291066447-MJYVUFNC5OO9BI4WBW6G/Screen+Shot+2021-02-02+at+2.22.07+PM.png 2021: Garden Party with Spatial Audio A personal invite from Resident Artist Tim Tsang : Dear friends, I am excited to invite you to Garden Party with Spatial Audio, happening on February 2, 2021 at 12-5pm PST. This party will be happening entirely online, on a platform called High Fidelity. Go climb a tree, meet a friend by the swimming pool, jump in on all sorts of wholesome gossip, or simply stumble upon 8 brilliant and indescribable performers as you virtually traverse this unique and inviting space. Come and go as you please, no questions asked. Treat it like a party in “real life” :) If you’d like to get familiar with High Fidelity beforehand, you are more than welcome to try it out for yourself here. Our February 2nd Garden Party will happen here between 12-5pm PST - just plug in some headphones, press play, and follow the instructions on your computer screen. You will have an option to use your real name or a fictitious one, as well as the option to offer a profile picture of yourself, which will serve as your moving avatar for people to recognize you as during the party. This can also be changed throughout your stay at the party. However you’d like to be known at this party is totally fine and totally up to you. Please come by and say hi! :) I, Tim Tsang, as the host of the party, may be found in this space on 2/2 as “Tim Tsang”, with this following profile picture: There will be performances by Mitch Toy & Doug F. Honey (12pm+)* Anna Pangalou (12 - 1pm) Nefer a’Re** (1:11pm) Sam Friedland(2 - 5pm) Patrick Behnke (3:33pm) Smokee Goddinson (4:30 - 4:45pm) Parch es (4:44) Adam Block ( TBD ) *all times PST **SOMEBODY ELSES IDEA OF SOMEBODY ELSES WORLD IS NOT MY IDEA OF THINGS AS THEY ARE, SOMEBODY ELSES IDEA OF THINGS TO COME NEED NOT BE THE ONLY WAY. ---Nefer a'Re ***NOTICE / DISCLAIMER*** During our previous event on Jan 27 (Green Boxes with Friends: A basic Zoom call for 5 hours where everyone has the same green background), we unexpectedly experienced some Zoom bombers who disrupted our session in what we believe to be bad faith. While this garden party has only been publicized through our email list and personal invites, there may still be a slight chance of contact with random people throughout the internet sending out uncensored and uncontrollable content (obscenities, offensive language and worldviews, etc). It is not an objective of this open party to attract these voices, and the host cannot prevent them from entering. We do, however have controls to remove any participants, and will take necessary actions should they be required. Having said that, in the rare case that you (especially the performers) do experience any sort of abuse or unsafe/malicious behaviors from any of the participants, please report it to the host (Tim Tsang) immediately, and we will take immediate action. Performers, if for whatever reason you wish to stop performing due to anything that occurs in the environment, you have full permission to do so, no questions asked. // Looking forward to seeing/hearing you there! :) -tim // Tim Tsang is a trans-disciplinary artist engaged in infinite play as an accumulative performance strategy. Tsang scripts friendly spaces—theoretical, physical—that invite perplexity and warmth, and serve as repositories for critical thinking, contemplation and escapism in the contexts of exhibitions, academic conferences, events, games and concerts. Often through over-identification and over-exposure toward the social, these spaces activate poetic explorations, re-framings, reflections and expansions of interactive creative processes. Website : timtsangtimtsang.com Instagram : instagram.com/johnscage FB : facebook.com/timtsangtimtsang https://www.automatala.org/artistsinresidence-fall-winter-20202021 daily 0.75 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/09467c21-abe9-4441-8e80-d8e5dbf6a63c/1benni.jpg Artists-in-Residence Fall / Winter 2020-2021 Benni Quintero (October 27 – November 15, 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/8285b677-0810-4c36-9ffa-aecde1a3753c/2ramona.jpg Artists-in-Residence Fall / Winter 2020-2021 Ramona Apthorp (November 24 – December 4, 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/814f27b3-4d44-4275-ae2f-18857de41a57/3susan.jpg Artists-in-Residence Fall / Winter 2020-2021 Susan Simpson (December 7-15, 2020 February 14-27, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/2e953f61-03cc-4b5b-8e1f-992a60be4f5e/4sichong.jpg Artists-in-Residence Fall / Winter 2020-2021 Sichong Xie (December 20, 2020–January 4, 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/7810e096-83d3-4024-a18f-d4b6bd2b2d3a/5jeghetto.jpg Artists-in-Residence Fall / Winter 2020-2021 Tarish Pipkins, aka JEGHETTO (rescheduled for Spring 2021 due to Covid) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/72d45cc5-eacb-494a-a313-dc085db9fc52/6tim.png Artists-in-Residence Fall / Winter 2020-2021 Tim Tsang (January 22 - 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Make it stand out Closeup of dot encrustacean, a drawing by Carole Kim and Regine Verougstraete https://www.automatala.org/2021-laura-heit daily 0.75 2021-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/90684565-2dfb-4c8b-98d5-538c588fb4a0/image-asset.jpeg 2021: Laura Heit - Make it stand out Laura Heit earned her MFA from the Royal College of Art in London England, and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). A multimedia artist her work has exhibited and screened in the US and abroad, at venues including Track 16 (Los Angeles, CA), Boise Art Museum (Boise ID), Adams and Ollman (Portland, OR), The Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR), The Schneider Museum of Art (Ashland OR), Center for Contemporary Art & Culture (Portland OR), She Works Flexible (Houston, TX), REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), MoMA (NYC, NY), Millennium Film (NYC, NY), Pompidou (Paris, France), TBA Festival (Portland, OR), and the Guggenheim Museum (NYC, NY), Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles, CA), and Detroit Institute of the Arts (Detroit, MI) among others. Her grants include; 2016 Oregon Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, Artist Project Grant Regional Arts & Culture Council including the 2014 Innovation Award, Henson Foundation (2009, 2014), ARC California, Illinois Arts Council, The British Council, and the Mac Dowell Colony. She has previously held positions at SAIC, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Cal Arts where she was co-director of the Experimental Animation Department. Her book Animation Sketchbooks was published in 2013 by Thames and Hudson. She currently lives and works in Portland Oregon. https://www.automatala.org/2021-alea-adigweme daily 0.75 2021-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/ef6f0668-8e2e-4f5b-955a-8a46833db70a/alea.png 2021: alea adigweme - Make it stand out alea adigweme is an anti-disciplinary Igbo-Vincentian-U.S.-ian cultural worker who utilizes the mediums of nonfiction writing, book arts, performance, installation, and video. Her work is undergird by interests in archives, microhistory, the body, and the book. She is the author of the poetry chapbook birdbolt idolatry (dancing girl press, 2015), and [untitled] , her first experimental short film, screened in competition at the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival. After studying Russian literature at Reed College, alea earned an MFA in nonfiction writing, an MA in media studies, and a graduate certificate in gender, women's, and sexuality studies from the University of Iowa. She is currently an MFA student in interdisciplinary studio art at UCLA. You can find out more about her work on her website www.alea.me. https://www.automatala.org/2021-kearra-wikimedia-drive daily 0.75 2021-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/80b1d5f2-7d55-4776-926d-7c4afc5ca46e/kearra+photo+drive.jpg 2021: Kearra Wikimedia Drive - Make it stand out From November 6th-12th, Kearra Amaya Gopee + Black Lunch Table + Automata hosted a Wikimedia Commons photo drive, conceived as part of Kearra's residency at Automata during summer 2021. From the Artist: Remember when you went to that one event in 2018, sat at the front then took a photo of the person speaking so you could flex in your stories? Dig it back up and submit it, it’s eligible! Like to draw? Draw a Black artist you admire and submit it! BLT needs images as much as we need text. Don't know how to upload to Wikimedia Commons? Drop into Kearra's zoom open hours during the contest's duration (3-4PM PST everyday through November 12) to talk with Kearra and get their help. Black Lunch Table also offers a step by step guide on how to upload pictures and the rules HERE KEARRA AMAYA GOPEE is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living and working on Tongva land (Los Angeles, CA). Their research based practice focuses on violence as it exists in/is enacted on the Anglophone Caribbean and its diasporas. They render this violence elastic and atemporal--leaving ample room for the consideration and manipulation of its history, immediacy and possible generative afterlives. Using lived experiences as a point of departure, they address violence’s impact on themes of (post)coloniality, affect, migration, intergenerational trauma, queerness, difference and healing. While complicating the viewer's understanding of economic and social marginalization in the region, their practice also desires to test the mettle of these same frameworks. Through their interventions, they aim to temper what we have known to be true with the potential of intuitive knowledges that have been historically cast aside in favour of Western assimilation. They hold a BFA in Photography and Imaging from New York University and are an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Currently, they are a MFA candidate at University of California, Los Angeles. They are a regional proxy for Black Lunch Table and they obsess about residencies at asmall.place. BLACK LUNCH TABLE Black Lunch Table’s (BLT) primary aim is the production of discursive sites, wherein artists and local community members engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues. BLT mobilizes a democratic rewriting of contemporary cultural history by animating discourse around and among the people living it. First staged in 2005 at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture artist residency, the project has grown by way of contributions from and collaborations with artists, digital humanities researchers, and Wikipedians. BLT currently includes two roundtable series’, an online oral history archive, and a Wikipedia initiative. Much like its creation of physical spaces that foster community and generate critical dialogue, BLT creates a digital space for art, Black studies and social justice issues. AUTOMATA 504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012 info: automataarts@gmail.com Flyer images: Nontsikelelo Mutiti by re:publica from Germany - re:publica Accra 18 – Day 1, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75616546 Derrick Adamas by Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Patrick Cashin, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88929882 Salome Asega by The Museum of Modern Art, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67383837 Frances Bodomo by WhatsThe411TV - Frances Bodomo Celebrates New York African Film Festival, 20 Years | What's The 411 | FILM, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106194001 Isaac Julien by Jere Keys from San Francisco, USA - Guin Turner; Isaac Julien at Queer Brunch, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3673517 https://www.automatala.org/2021-davia-spain daily 0.75 2021-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/fdbfa80e-779b-48ed-957a-882a1f6e6aad/Davia+Spain.jpg 2021: Davia Spain - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.automatala.org/2021-ambar-navarro daily 0.75 2021-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/43f0df5c-d32e-4b13-93c9-e0b927d50fb3/ambar+navarro+copy.jpg 2021 Ambar Navarro - Make it stand out Ambar Navarro is a Mexican-American filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles. Ambar grew up attending shows in the San Antonio punk scene and ever since then has been influenced by all things music, underground, d.i.y., and supporting local musicians. During this exploration came her love for experimental film, art, and photography. Since moving to Los Angeles she has earned a B.F.A. in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts and has directed music videos, commercials, and is currently focusing on producing her own narrative shorts. Her video work has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Fader, Pitchfork, NPR, Nylon, Paper Mag, Rookie, i-d Mexico, Remezcla, Mitu, and more. Her artwork has been displayed in 50+ galleries nationally and internationally including solo shows in LA, Texas, Vietnam, Spain, and in group shows in Taiwan, Australia, the new Tate Modern, Werkartz, Woman and Their Work and more. https://www.automatala.org/2021-brian-getnick daily 0.75 2022-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/c46064bc-4f2f-4f66-bafe-728996cd4494/Brian+Getnick_Monument+for+an+Audition.jpg 2021: Brian Getnick Brian Getnick collaborates with Tim Tsang to create a digitally rendered actress who auditions for the role of Bea in AFTERMATH, a play by Getnick about a family in a hellscape. Within the installation, the actress's audition loops on a monitor adjacent to a monument to Bea’s alter-ego: that of a knight astride a prancing horse. Made of clay, paper and straw, the monument is designed to return to the earth as decomposing matter; a rustic effigy to a deathless actress fumbling her lines. Music and soundscore for Monument for an Audition composed by Peter Hernandez (aka Julius Smack). This project is made possible with the support of Yiddishkayt’s David Shneer Memorial Grant of the Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship to foster new creative work rooted in Yiddish language, culture, and history. https://www.automatala.org/2021-ambar-navarro-dec23-screening daily 0.75 2022-01-12 https://www.automatala.org/our-staff daily 0.75 2023-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1616483145401-OQ1GVWGQJ1IUFKYH1EY9/IMG_6790.JPG Our Staff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1616467864004-CRFA79PX7I6G6P9O2S0D/3susan.jpg Our Staff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1616467911765-218NSD8UM4CU6FF7B8B0/Tim%2BTsang_2019_0375.jpg Our Staff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/7d4af997-7e89-4bb2-89f9-b9d0960492bf/Screenshot_20221125_230135_Photos_2.jpg Our Staff - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/f9376fe1-8729-49fd-ad14-366f02bed48c/cassia.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/1775c12a-526e-4c14-87f2-dddaf61fb52e/Cherlyn+Hsing+Hsin+Liu.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/d484d516-6890-4448-9465-eb9354754b5f/IMG_0289-preview+2.jpg https://www.automatala.org/artistsinresidence-springsummer-2022 daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/9c6831c8-4eed-4321-91b5-7c0434c7b819/Ursula.jpeg Artists-in-Residence Spring/Summer 2022 Ursula Brookbank (February 14 - 25, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/ef1edb8c-bf2f-4b9b-bce2-64505bb3ecf0/alana.jpeg Artists-in-Residence Spring/Summer 2022 Alana Frey (February 28 - March 14, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/beeaacf9-0c7f-422b-a64f-38089723f7ac/kyle.jpeg Artists-in-Residence Spring/Summer 2022 Kyle Bellucci Johanson (March 19 - 26, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/47346951-fd5e-439a-8420-8e39a1f906a0/sylviaxiao.jpeg Artists-in-Residence Spring/Summer 2022 Sylvia Xiao (March 28 - April 5, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/24fef5ee-cceb-46da-806e-8392c772533c/3_Basil-533x800.png Artists-in-Residence Spring/Summer 2022 Basil Twist (April 7 - 13 and June 9 - 15, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/baca6266-c4cb-4549-bbbe-223979537aa0/Shani.PNG Artists-in-Residence Spring/Summer 2022 Shani Strand (April 25 - May 9, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/7c83722f-1cdb-4c92-a3e6-7f14a28afa0a/Audrey.jpeg Artists-in-Residence Spring/Summer 2022 Audrey Densmore (July 14 - 28, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/7c02f37f-70ad-4f42-b869-6b85fdac7783/josie+j.jpg Artists-in-Residence Spring/Summer 2022 divinebrick (josie j) (August 1 - 17, 2022) https://www.automatala.org/automata-residency-project daily 0.75 2024-04-23 https://www.automatala.org/how-light-enters-my-home daily 0.75 2022-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/4692ae1f-83a3-452e-b0b9-938ba764851b/until1.png 2022 How Light Enters My Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/4438d5a3-9b5b-4175-a308-63041b8ce625/until2.png 2022 How Light Enters My Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/e52f3208-ebc5-4858-aa83-28ce5a1e25ee/until3.png 2022 How Light Enters My Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/e4396eab-b91f-4b4a-a575-335babc9f6a8/brooke+week1.jpeg 2022 How Light Enters My Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/fa750468-9dd9-4d2a-a50f-aa4f387fb1bf/where+will+she+go.jpeg 2022 How Light Enters My Home - Where Will She Go? by Phoebe Hart In this single person viewing experience, the guest enters a shrouded space to find a miniature ceramic theater. 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Opposite the table is a magic lantern operated by the viewer, projecting a series of faces above the arms and creating the illusion that you are guessing who might come to your dinner table! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/ee99e0e3-895e-4e0a-8779-1237a6779f80/superpower+2024.jpeg 2022 How Light Enters My Home - Superpower 2024 by Gavati Wad and Nehal Vyas Superpower 2024 is an installation that responds to the absurd ideas and language used by political figures in India to manufacture a glorious legacy based on fiction and non-truths. It uses the format of a TV infomercial show to sell quick-fix products for any inappropriate dissenting thoughts that one may have. On the other hand, materials in the installation counter the narrative seen on television. Special Thanks: Rhea Iyer, Alexia de Montalembert, Riley Olson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f1e09fe16c9e5093a7f3cf5/c3044d24-152a-43fd-b688-ec3ab02bd0aa/i+sliced+a+time.jpeg 2022 How Light Enters My Home - I Sliced a Frame of the Time by 莫茹杰 (Rujie Mo) Departing from her individual experience, the artist rethinks "photography" in terms of how it should exist and be communicated to the eye. In the constant interaction of light and time, “photography,” per se, has been made present through the primitive and instinctive nature of human eyes – viewing. 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