2024

Ray Chang Artist-in-Residence

Chris Olsen Artist-in-Residence

If in a Suitcase a Poet [Zoopraxographers]

Judicantai Responsura [Tapetail]

Xiao Zhang with Chris Olsen

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