THE EARLY MUSEUM (East Wing): An Installation with Periodic PerformanceBy Gina Marie NapolitanPresented in Automata's main gallery space, as well as our storefront windows, as part of AUTOMATA WINDOWS: INSIDE OUTAugust 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.