Aus dem Video-Infotext:
„AUTOMATA is an artist-run non-profit performance gallery located in the Chinatown District of Los Angeles. Automata stands at the fulcrum between objects and performance, art and artifact, document and ephemera, magic and mechanics, artifice and interface.
Automata is dedicated to the incubation, creation, and presentation of contemporary performance, including avant-garde puppetry, moving image art, experimental music, installation, and pre-cinema.“
Auszug Infotext zu AUTOMATED von Ray Chang: „AUTOMATED Ray Chang / Automata Residency Project, June 2020-…A complex arrangement of individual sculpture-machines, Automated is a representational kinetic sculpture of a fictional city. These sculpture-machines share a cyclical relationship to early animation devices, such as the zoetrope, mutoscope, and various automata. Each sculpture-machine is also an optical device, and a means of representing the constant rhythm that flows through the space, as through a city. Constructed by Chang from original 3D printed and wooden elements, Automated will be a singular experience for viewers.“