This film was only available during the Computer Baroque online exhibition, which ran from 14 April-14 July 2009.

A film by Shelley Lake
Music Frank Webber and Shelley Lake
Editor Jane Allison-Fleck
Colorist Sunny Wood
Software Development Gary Demos
Produced at Digital Productions (1984-1986)

Thinking of the computer as an intellectual and creative partner, instead of an inanimate tool, can lead to completely new aesthetic experiences, making the computer analogous to art, as numeration is to the mathematician. The computer, the most sophisticated machinery to date, and the camera, the most sophisticated art form of our time, when combined, can yield images of insurmountable quality and when divided, may never have been conceived at all.

Shelley Lake’s film flagrantly disregarded all the conventions of 3D computer animation. In this domestic satire, it’s chunky, unglamorous female robot flails around with such a sense of abandon that it is paradoxically liberating.

Shelley Lake received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. Her experimentation with art and technology began more than 30 years ago, as a computer science major at Brown University.

In 1979, Lake earned a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and became the first female graduate of the Media Lab. At MIT, she trained with Dr. Harold Edgerton, pioneer in strobe photography, and was a member of the first team to create an all slide optical videodisk. She was awarded a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where she directed and produced experimental artworks.

In the 1980s, Lake created award-winning movies and images as a Technical Director at Digital Productions. She has won three Clio awards, Japan´s NICOGRAPH award for "Still Picture Computer Graphics Grand Prize", placed first in an AT&T Image Competition, and was a technical director for the Academy Award winning The Last Starfighter.

She currently runs Sky Lake Studios, a visionary computer graphics facility. In addition to providing photographic services for artists, Dr. Lake now experiments with ultra high resolution digital cameras in combination with large format archival printers to produce artworks.