Automan

Automan is an American science fiction series created by Glen A. Larson that premiered on ABC in December 1983. Its protagonist, Walter Nebicher (Desi Arnaz Jr.), is a programmer who develops a system capable of projecting a digital character named Automan, played by Chuck Wagner, into the physical world. Accompanied by Cursor, a small luminous element that can generate vehicles and other objects, Automan uses his technological capabilities to solve crimes. Its aesthetic, marked by illuminated outlines and geometric surfaces, belongs to a period when computers and digital graphics were beginning to transform the television imagination.

The painting brings together the character, the series title and its angular, luminous vehicle within a compact circular image. The combination preserves a recognizably early digital vision of the future. Reworked through watercolor, that television image becomes a physical object of close observation, linking the series’ remembered media to the labor of painting its small graphic and material details.