PAST EVENTS:
2024
Mason Moy String Band [Tapetail]
Cricket Requiem [Zoopraxographers]
The Precision of Discipline [Tapetail]
S P I L L : Daria Kaufman [Tapetail]
FEAST CYCLE: Ashton Phillips
BLACK HOLE FAMILY: Jungsub Eom + Laura Ohio
The Dog Star Orchestra: 20th Festival
SOOHOO: Open Studios
CONCENTRIC TETHERS: Cecyl Ruehlen
rasgos asiaticos
DIGITAL HARMONY: Eric Lennartson, Matt Leveeque, Squash + Biscuit
DOUBLE OR NOTHING Laura Steenberge and Madison Brookshire
AMBIENT AMBIENCE: David Tranchina + Ensemble [Tapetail]
Carmen Amengual Artist-in-Residence
MALOSMA: Katie Porter & Christine Tavolacci [Tapetail]
MFYI: Movie Night
Cassia Streb + Tim Feeney [Tapetail]
Hannah Beadman: Open Studio + Screening
2023
DIAPASON: Long Gradus by Sarah Davachi, Clouds by Ellen Arkbro
PERMISSION TO LAND: Spacepants [Tapetail]
MFYI: Movie Night
Multistable Perception: Eric Heep [Tapetail]
Imaginary Nature: Sara Roberts Artist-in-Residence
Walk With Amal
Title (un)titled: the films of Julie Murray [Threshold to Threshold]
LAX at Automata: Marsian DeLellis
LAX at Automata: Gabrielle Civil
treatments, Mat Rappaport
M.A. Harms, Matt LeVeque
Karl Evangelista Quintet + CuZns
The Dog Star Orchestra: 19th Annual Festival
Films by Wenhua Shi: let the light in [Threshold to Threshold]
Elemental Findings: Highlights from the Revolutions per Minute Festival [Threshold to Threshold]
Not At Home (Advik Beni, Gavati Wad, Luis Gutiérrez Arias, Nehal Vyas, Zaina Bseiso, Xiao Zhang)
interius/exterius + Game Time: Three Exercises for Intrepid Performers (Ghost Ensemble) [Tapetail]
Trails and Topographies (DesoDuo) [Tapetail]
Charlotte Clermont and Tzuan Wu [Threshold to Threshold]
AUTOMATED (Ray Chang)
PENG Zuqiang 彭祖强 + Kohei SENGEN 仙元浩平 [Threshold to Threshold]
Exhaltations (Kalpana Subramanian)
ODE (Odeya Nini) [Tapetail]
Trace Layer (Alix Blevins, Zachary Watkins) [Tapetail]
Automata Open House (Various Artists)
2022
Lost and Found (Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh, Artist-in-Residence)
Foraging (Cassia Streb, Artist-in-Residence with Tim Feeney) [Tapetail]
Do You Wanna Be Ready? (Taegen Meyer, Arist-in-Residence)
Eric Lennartson [Tapetail]
Mattie Barbier, M.A. Tiesenga, Maddi Baird
Slow Cooking 慢炖 (Squash & Biscuit 瓜和饼干) [Tapetail]
Automatic Music (Castle Anthrax, Mystic Elevator, (placeHolder) )
Children of the Fall (divinebrick, Artist-in-Residence)
Audrey Densmore, Artist-in-Residence
Shadows Uplifted: African American Object Performance Under Jim Crow (Dr. Paulette Richards, Artist-in-Residence)
Shani Strand, Artist-in-Residence
How Light Enters My Home: A Projection Series
Basil Twist, Artist-in-Residence
Sylvia Xiao, Artist-in-Residence
table near Chinese Room (Kyle Bellucci Johanson, Artist-in-Residence)
Eephus (Alana Frey, Artist-in-Residence)
The Elephant in the Room (Ursula Brookbank, Artist-in-Residence)
2021
My Dollhouse (Ambar Navarro, Artist-in-Residence)
Davia Spain, Artist-in-Residence
Wikimedia Photo Drive + Black Lunch Table (Kearra Amaya Gopee, Artist-in-Residence)
alea adigweme, Artist-in-Residence
Monument for an Audition (Brian Getnick, Artist-in-Residence)
Laura Heit, Artist-in-Residence
Drawing as Invitation (Carole Kim, Artist-in-Residence)
From the Ashes (Tarish Pipkins, aka JEGHETTO, Artist-in-Residence)
Ambar Navarro, Artist-in-Residence
Storybook Apocalypse: Live Screening and Q&A (Gina Napolitan, Artist-in-Residence)
Susan Simpson and Terence McFarland in Conversation about Incandescent and Undivided
Other Than That, I Had A Good Time (Jordan Wong, Artist-in-Residence)
Incandescent and Undivided (Susan Simpson, Artist-in-Residence)
Garden Party with Spatial Audio (Tim Tsang, Artist-in-Residence)
Green Boxes with Friends: A Basic 5 Hour Zoom Call Where Everyone Has the Same Green Background (Tim Tsang, Artist-in-Residence)
Memory in Walking Progress (Sichong Xie, Artist-in-Residence)
Ramona Apthorp, Artist-in-Residence
2020
Past the Sky, Where the Hat is: Documentation of Heavenly Bodies (Benni Quintero, Artist-in-Residence)
Performance Experiments (Kendra Ware, Artist-in-Residence)
Womxn in Windows (Founded and Curated by Zehra Ahmed)
Fools’ Window (Patrick Michael Ballard, Artist-in-Residence)
Black Motion Pictures Interview with Jeghetto (Gabrielle Civil, Artist-in-Residence)
Marsian De Lellis, Artist-in-Residence
Blue Waves (Moira Lael MacDonald, Artist-in-Residence)
AUTOMATED (Ray Chang, Artist-in-Residence)
5WALLS WITH MAGE (5walls)
BEYOND THE IMAGE: A CHINESE FILM SERIES (Michelle Sui)
MUSIC OF ALVIN SINGLETON (Southland Ensemble)
PUESTO DE PALABRAS (Virginia Grise)
Jacob Kirkgegaard and Mariel Roberts with special performance by Matt Barbier
Tim Tsang Plays Tim Tsang: A Piano Recital (Tim Tsang)
Sponge Hollow + Special Performance from Selkie (Zach Dorn, Moira Lael MacDonald)
(feat.) an evening of collaboratively composed electroacoustic mini concerti (LOS ANGELES ELECTROACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE & Elizabeth Chavez, Jordan Curcuruto, Lucy McKnight, Diana Wade, Garret Wingfield, Adam Zuckerman)
2019
Sparkleblob's NUTCRACKER SWEET Something Completely Else
FLUXUS: BEN PATTERSON (Southland Ensemble)
Relics Of The Hypnotist War (Ryan Griffith)
Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage (Daniel Corral)
Talk Show Episode 1: Demo(Nstration) (Tim Tsang & Scarlett Kim)
Beyond the Visual (Jonathan Potter)
Street Angel (Michelle Sui)
Free Concert (WasteLAnd Music)
Apollo (11)(11): 5wallsandtableonthemoon,Or We Came In Peace For All (Tim Tsang, Kyle Bellucci Johanson, Scarlett Kim)
With the notes of far-away song floating from the other shore (Sichong Xie)
MEM1 (Pauline Lay, rheya, and Anna Homler + Jorge Martin)
Selkie: A Shadow Installation (Moira Lael MacDonald)
LAND IMAGES (Southland Ensemble, Dog Star Orchestra)
LAST CHRYSANTHEMUMS: Music of André Cormier (The Koan Quartet, Joshua Westerman)
Dissolving Sights II, Peephole Cinema Opening (Various Artists)
Unwrinkled Ear (Tatsuya Nakatani And Urs Leimgruber)
CURVE: New Sound Works (Liew Niyomkarn, Innes Eysermans, and Eric Heep)
Ballad of the Star-Eater: the Music of Johanna Beyer (Southland Ensemble)
MODEL KILLER (Marsian De Lellis D+R Residency)
The Kansas Collection (The Speakeasy Society)
WOMEN IN WINDOWS (Curated by Zehra Ahmed)
New Experimental Works (Southland Ensemble)
The Earthian Folk Dance (DaEun Jung, D+R Residency)
UNTITLED CONSENT PROJECT [UCP] (Sara Lyons D+R Residency)
2018
Automata Windows: Model Cities December 2018 (Kimberly Varella and Robby Herbst)
George Brecht’s Candle Piece for Radios and other classic event scores (Southland Ensemble)
A Machine for Living Returns! (Susan Simipson)
OBJECT OF HER AFFECTION (Marsian De Lellis)
Diagenesis Duo (Heather Barnes, Jennifer Bewerse)
Exploration of the Shadow: Creating Visual Poetry and Storytelling with Light (Christine Marie)
André Cormier's Piling Sand - Piling Stone 4 (Christine Tavolacci)
BODY MUSIC (Carolyn Chen & Ian Power)
Byzantine Rites: New Work by Laura Steenberge (Southland Ensemble)
A Machine for Living (Susan Simpson)
Storytelling (Now Hear Ensemble)
the wulf @ Automata (Morgan Evans-Weiler, Michael Pisaro-Liu)
Your are measuring…(Accordant Commons)
The Music of Ruth Crawford / Ruth Crawford Seeger (Southland Ensemble)
POLYTOPE (Daniel Corral)
the wulf @ Automata (Luke Martin, Marta Tiesenga, Amy Golden, Tim Tsang & Parch Es)
Dissolving Sights (Exhibition of Projection Art)
Wadada Leo Smith (Southland Ensemble)
What Are We Gonna Say After Hello? (Mondongo)
2017
Unnatural Selection: Contemporary Independent Animation from around the World (Curated by Alan Jennings)
WERDER / FREY (Southland Ensemble)
Degenerate Art Ensemble (Diphylleia Grayi)
CALIFORNIA DREAMING (Hosted by T.J. Borden and Automata)
“Refractions” Album Release Show (Daniel Corral)
Songs of Hildegard von Bingen (Ensemble Vocatrix)
ホテル- Hotel Surrogates (Josiane Keller)
New Music from Old Music (Neil Rolnick)
You Got the Best Feeling: New Video Works by Poor Dog Group (Poor Dog Group)
D+R Residency #1 (Jay Carlon and Lindsey Lollie)
A Solo Voice (Odeya Nini)
Ritual for Three (Christine Tavolacci)
Imagined Elasticities: An evening of experimental music, avant-garde cabaret and performance art (Sara Debevec)
JACKSON MAC LOW (Southland Ensemble)
Amy Golden and Luke Martin (Amy Golden, Luke Martin)
2016
DADA DIVAS (Jacqueline Bobak)
SOUND HOUSE (John Eagle, Janie Geiser, Cassia Streb)
as occurred, as recalled (WHYTEBERG)
Moonchops (Brian Getnick)
PEEPHOLE CINEMA: Two New Films (Janie Geiser, Susan Simpson)
The Magic Lantern: Songs, Stories and Projections From an Imaginary New England Village (Tim Eriksen)
Two Overlapping Works (Luke Martin, Andrew Young)
Tom Johnson’s NINE BELLS (John Eagle)
Singing Resistance (Emily Lacy)
3 Evenings of New Work (Ulrich Krieger)
FATAL (Dorothy Dubrule)
Pinhole Camera Workshop (with Robin Miller and Alexis MacNab)
Into the Rice Fields (Yulya Dukhovny)
Karaoke Night: Puppet Optional (Automata)
Music of Earle Brown: FOLIO (Southland Ensemble)
Pleats of Matter: The Films of Blake Williams (Blake Williams)
An Evening of New Works for String Quartet (Luke Martin, Aaron Bresley)
2015
SparkleBlob's HOLIDAYS ON ICING: A CHRISTMAS COOKIE CRUMBLE! (Automata)
29 Cross Examinations (Maureen Selwood)
11 VARIED NEW WORKS COMPOSED BY OUR MEMBERS AND A SHORT POEM BY ROBERT LAX (Readers Chorus)
HINTERLANDS (Gina Marie Napolitan)
Fright Privilege (John P. Hogan)
General Manifest (Braden Diotte)
FANCY FEAST COMEDY (Hosted by Tricia Traci and Rebecca Leib)
SELFIE BAR (Baxley Andresen and Erin O'Donnell)
PEEPHOLE CINEMA at AUTOMATA (Automata)
TRAVELING LIGHT (Laura Heit)
BEAR CLUB EP Release Show (Bear Club)
Storytelling Toys – Kaleidoscopes, Mobiles & Camera Obscura (Workshops by Alexis MacNab)
Stop Motion and Cut Paper Animation Intensive (Workshops by Maya Erdelyi)
Tungsten (artery) (Janie Geiser, Erik Ehn)
Cornelius Cardew's “The Great Learning” (Southland Ensemble)
BORDER LABS/LABORATORIOS FRONTERIZOS (Janie Geiser, Susan Simipson, Adrián Vazquez)
I WAS A LANDSCAPE IN YOUR DREAM (Daphne Rosenthal, Molly Allis, Bear Club)
2014
Fugitive Time (Janie Geiser)
Augustine September: Artist in Residence (Susan Simpson)
Little Creaking Gallery (Baxley Andresen, Erin O’Donnell)
THE EARLY MUSEUM (Gina Marie Napolitan)
Object of Her Affection (Marsian De Lellis)
LOOK / KILL (Keith Skretch)
Image Action Text (Laurel Jenkins Tentindo)
VOICED (Odeya Nini)
Southland Ensemble Plays Robert Ashley (Southland Ensemble)
Automata 10th Anniversary Benefit
Concrete Folk Variations (Susan Simpson)
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS (Peiyi Wong)
URBAN RENEWAL (Kyle deCamp)
CYRK (Ursula Brookbank)
THE KEY GAME PROJECT: Sleep, Staring, Well (Kristen Smiarowski)
2013
Clouded Sulphur (death is a knot undone) (Janie Geiser)
INTO THE SUN (Pitch Like Masses and Magnuzaki Lab)
DISAPPEARING ACTS AND RESURFACING SUBJECTS (Sara Wookey)
EXHIBIT A (Susan Simpson)
Song of Yourselves (John P. Hogan)
Pentral (Jacaszek)
So Long Observing The Ray (Dan Herschlein)
Christian Wolff's Changing the System (Southland Ensemble)
Video Musics lll: Floating Oceans (Alexis Gideon)
Clouded Sulphur (death is a knot undone) (Janie Geiser)
MARGERY AND YOU (Moira Lael MacDonald)
SparkleBlob's Doublewide Roadside Holiday Snowflake Show!
2012
STAR: A Play for Puppets (Erik Ehn, Katie Shook)
Not the Higgs Boson (Margaret Wertheim, Lizzie Wade)
Translucent Travels (Hosted by Don Wildman)
FURNACE (Carole Kim)
Cabaret Automata
Sparkleblob's Seasons Greetings: A Disaster in Four Acts
2011
Clouded Sulphur (Janie Geiser)
Piter-burg (Danila Korodovsky, Chris Barecca, Susan Simpson, and Janie Geiser)
2010
Exhibit A (Susan Simpson)
Bride of Wildenstein (Marsian De Lellis)
2009
Automata Benefit
Susan Simpson
Janie Geiser
Clare Dolan
Susan Simpson, Katie Shook
Lewis Klahr
Juliana J.P. Parr, Moira MacDonald
2008
Janie Geiser, Susan Simpson
Susan Simpson
Alison Helmstead, Shannon Scrofano
Evelyn Serrano
Perry Hoberman
Cathy Akers
Juliana Parr, Moira MacDonald
Jordan Biren, Perry Hoberman
Janie Geiser
2007
Janie Geiser, Susan Simpson
Susan Simpson
Peter Yates
Christine Wertheim
Janie Geiser
Beth Peterson, One Grain of Sand Puppet Theater
Emily Lacy
2006
Janie Geiser, Susan Simpson
2005
Lewis Klahr
Steve Anker
2004
Janie Geiser, Susan Simpson
The Little Fakers