Event Dates
Time
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The Automatic Message. Photo by Dani Costelo. Courtesy of Langara College.
The Automatic Message. Photo by Dani Costelo. Courtesy of Langara College.
Artist Talk
Artist Talk | How to Make a Monster
ADMISSION
Free
Registration required
Langara College’s 2026 Photographers in Residence, Tanya Goehring and Trevor Jacobson of The Automatic Message, will host an artist talk regarding their latest installation, How to Make a Monster.
The installation will be available to view before and after the talk.
Tanya Goehring and Trevor Jacobson are the creative duo known as The Automatic Message. They create surreal, emotional and immersive audiovisual experiences. Much of their work is psychological in nature and centres around themes of memory and the displacement thereof.
For over a decade, The Automatic Message performed live audiovisual sets across North America and Europe, most notably the legendary Berghain club in Berlin. Their live performances blend experimental techno with surreal, narrative-driven visuals.
Recently, their focus has shifted toward creating immersive film installations that expand on their cinematic and sonic language. In 2022, they received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to produce EMDR, a four- channel immersive film installation, that premiered in 2025 at VIVO Media Arts. Past works include a two- channel installation Cultivating the Witness, and a 55 minute experimental dance film for Cristian Vogel’s The Ballad of Agnete and the Merman, presented in 52-channel immersive audio at ZKM and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
