Using 16mm film, video, audio, sculptural assemblage and the internet, this installation poetically explores our consciousness of "body" in relation to analogue and digital media. Laiwan's first videowork Remotely in Touch (1998) signalled her departure from still to moving image and into researching how digital technology alters our perception of and approach to the world. Machinate is her first installed collection of work investigating technologized consciousness, phenomena and presumptions.

This work was first exhibited at the Video In Studios, Vancouver, from April 29 to May 15, 1999.