info
/
1
2
3
4
5
·
·
·
·
·
×
Lake’s piece AUTOMATA is a portrait of the man of the future, today and yesterday, trapped in his own self-created bubble in which he tries to access a world yet hopelessly misunderstanding the importance or the ‘how’ of being truly present. Constantly striving to be a part of something, driven by a digital mantra, he creates an all too self-sufficient corner, complete with energy gel, dehydrated food, a stove, anti-chafing gel to ease his constant masturbation, and a module with a keypad and mouse which is actually an artificial vagina. Having everything provided to sustain him throughout the day, the need for another body is void, yet somehow the lack of one seems dismal and considered even more through its absence. The video on the screen is the video game he is purportedly playing (the virtual world he seeks to conquer) over which are green screened four different scenes of space-age talk show sets, in which women of the cyber-ilk traipse about the set attempting to distract and seduce the man to no avail.