AUTOMAT COLLECTIVE
Curating exhibitions that amplify emerging voices and foster experimental dialogue within the Philadelphia arts community.
AUTOMAT Collective is a Philadelphia-based curatorial collective that champions emerging artists through exhibitions, programming, and publications. Created by and for artists, its mission is to support the developing trajectories of emerging practitioners and to provide a space where artists and curators can undertake experimental projects that advance the dialogue of visual culture. In addition to its regular programming, AUTOMAT partners with other collectives and community organizations to expand its reach and impact.
My membership at AUTOMAT began in Summer of 2023. Since then I’ve curated four shows, three of which included interactive media, including projections, tactile objects, motion sensors, and Virtual Reality.
Among many other things. AUTOMAT is an excellent space for prototyping different forms of interactivity.
Refracted Viscera
Exhibited in May 2025, Refracted Viscera is a cross-disciplinary, immersive exhibition featuring the works of Eva Wu, Lauren Bradshaw, Theo Trotter, and Katie Hubbell, exploring the queer and femme sensual imagination through the lens of embodiment, materiality, and digital experimentation. Centering the question of how femme and queer bodies are depicted in a media landscape that rarely represents them authentically, Refracted Viscera offers a multisensory space where organic, abstract, and evocative visions of bodies emerge. Utilizing mediums such as Virtual Reality, animation, and sculpture, the artists create visceral, speculative worlds that resist the exploitative frameworks of mainstream sexual media. Femme and queer experiences, like a prism, are multifaceted, and this installation explores what is refracted within that prism.