“It’s ironic thinking what the road movie would look like for a self-driving car, because the road to the car represents their job and a certain sense of what they might want to escape from.”
– Artist and filmmaker
Lawrence Lek, discussing his CGI fiction
NOX (2023), now on view at LA’s
Hammer Museum, where autonomous vehicles have minds, memories, and mental health issues. The pitch: “What does individuality look like for machines that don’t have the means to own their actions?”
