Event Archive for 2012
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No Nutritional Value: Introduction to Modern Food
Sunday, December 16th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 16th 8pm FREE In the effort to promote proper nutrition, Fontbron Academy is proud to present “No Nutritional Value: Introduction to Modern Food”: a free lecture designed to elucidate the student in the correct ways of healthy eating, safe dieting, and table manners. Topics discussed will include: Table manners Purging What not to [...]
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Dorkbot SoCal
Sunday, December 16th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Sunday, December 16th 1 – 3pm FREE Dorkbot SoCal is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties from the Los Angeles / Southern California area who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term.) Presenters include: Michael Kontopoulos Michael Kontopoulos is an [...]
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Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian
Saturday, December 15th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 15th 8pm FREE Join us for a reading of poetry and prose by Bay Area writers Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian. Dodie will be reading a piece on activism, poetry, and Tommy James & the Shondells. Kevin will be reading from a new novel Spreadeagle (Publication Studio) and some Christmas-type things.
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The Winchester Mystery House
Friday, December 14th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, December 14th 8pm FREE Colin Dickey will tell tales of the Winchester Mystery House, the sprawling 161-room Victorian monstrosity in San Jose, CA, long considered the “world’s most haunted house.” Colin will discuss Sarah Winchester’s life and times, the Winchester repeating rifle, the rise of spiritualism in the 19th century, and why just about [...]
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Jen Hofer and Dolores Dorantes
Friday, December 7th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, December 7th 8pm FREE Poet Dolores Dorantes will be visiting Machine to read from her most recent book Estilo. At her request, all audience members will be blindfolded and gently handcuffed. Each poem will be followed by Jen Hofer’s translations. After this potentially intense experience audience members will be unblindfolded, uncuffed and then served [...]
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Dark Matter 3
Thursday, November 29th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, November 29th 8pm FREE SPECULATIVE presents a screening on Dark Matter, a schizophrenic mix of video art and other experiments. This evening will offer glimpses of Dark Matter through the anonymous materials, inexplicable behaviors and intangible networks found in the work of this eclectic selection of artists: Ryan Trecartin Pascual Sisto Claudia Salamanca Ian [...]
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The Pleasure Industry, or 10,080 Hours Aboard Cruise Ships
Friday, November 23rd, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, November 23rd 8pm FREE James Klopfleisch is an experimental composer and performer. He has also spent approximately 15 months as a musician aboard cruise ships. The Pleasure Industry is a non-sequential series of stories, anecdotes, and observations about cruise ship life (all true and totally accurate). Ranging from memories of Longyearbyen (the world’s northernmost [...]
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Climate Variations
Sunday, November 18th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 18th 8pm FREE An evening of works which utilize extreme temperature differences as a means of sound production by Liam Mooney and Todd Lerew. The Quartz Cantabile is a new musical instrument that applies a method known to thermoacousticians for converting heat into sound. A ceramic honeycomb material called the stack is placed [...]
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A Poetry Reading by CAConrad
Friday, November 16th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, November 16th 8pm FREE Machine Project’s poet-in-residence for the week is CAConrad, who will be reading from his latest collection of (Soma)tic Poetry entitled A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON. (Soma)tic Poetics are instructional exercises meant to provoke an inspired interaction with the world, or, in CAConrad’s own words: “Experiences that are unorthodox steps in the [...]
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Resources and Services for Artists presentation
Monday, November 12th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Monday, November 12th 8pm FREE with RSVP Artists in all disciplines looking for jobs, opportunities, grants and professional development are invited to attend a presentation about the free and low-cost national services and resources that Artspire and the New York Foundation for the Arts offer to them. Courtney Harge, Program Officer for Fiscal Sponsorship from [...]
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The Great Calculation
Saturday, November 10th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 10th 8pm FREE Calculators are silent, ubiquitous, boring, and utterly reliable- to the point where you don’t even question the answers that you get. In the early 1960’s they were big, heavy, noisy, smelly objects. They had unique interfaces and needed constant maintenance for reliability. Calculation was a visceral process that shook the [...]
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The Lost Calculator
Friday, November 9th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, November 9th 8pm FREE In 1840 Thomas Fowler, an inventor and a self-taught engineer, built a calculating machine made entirely out of wood. Neither the machine nor drawings survived. Mechanical engineer Mark Glusker, working with a team of historians in England, built a reconstruction to prove that it worked. Fowler was a contemporary of [...]
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Dark Matter 2
Friday, November 2nd, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, November 2nd 8pm FREE Our exploration of Dark Matter will continue this week, with nine artists, researchers, writers and ethnographers approaching the theme of dark matter in nine eclectic, short-form talks. Modeled after the Pecha Kucha presentation style, each presenter will show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, totaling six minutes. The slides progress [...]
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Recipe Testing in Theory and Practice
Saturday, October 27th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Saturday, October 27th 4pm FREE How is a cookbook written? How is a recipe recorded? What is the language of food writing? How can a single ingredient destroy, or elevate a dish? These questions and more will be discussed in an informal lecture and demonstration on the mechanics and practice of professional recipe testing. With [...]
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Build-A-Beer
Friday, October 26th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, October 26th 8pm $10 RSVP The art and science of brewing a fine beer is a delicate and complex process. The distinctive flavor of various beers arises from a combination of water quality, malted grains, flowery hops, and the diligent work of micro-organisms. OR, you can just add a bunch of random flavor profiles [...]
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Catherine Wagner and Aaron Kunin
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Tuesday, October 23rd 8pm FREE Maybe you’ve caught Aaron or Cathy at Machine before. If you have you know how surprising, consistently unsettling and richly pleasurable their work is. We are very excited to have Cathy here in town for a night away from presidential politics drenched Ohio, where she lives and teaches (at Miami [...]
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Pull Through
Saturday, October 20th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
October 20th Ongoing from 4 to 9pm With performances at 6 & 8pm FREE Pull Through by Wages is a sound installation with conceptual/musical performances interspersed. At its core, the entire piece is about the ambiguous nature of being: the intersection of finite and infinite. Each performed piece symbolizes a segment of the life cycle, [...]
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Listening (in/to) the Periphery
Sunday, October 14th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 14th 8pm FREE A collaborative “lecture” with Bryan Eubanks and Catherine Lamb. From different approaches/processes, musical investigations and backgrounds, Bryan and Cat will discuss/share various perspectives on listening (in/to) the periphery. Touching upon extended durations, generative structures, wave field synthesis, harmonic fields, and “gray” sound, they invite you to be present… “Such, then, [...]
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Hive Mind
Saturday, October 13th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Saturday, October 13th 2 – 3pm: Lecture by beekeeper Susan Rudnicki 3 – 5pm: Inter-species musical collaboration by Giancarlo de la Cruz and public poetry reading for bees There are nine feral hives per square mile in LA – celebrate your beeing, learn more, and experience the secret wildness pullulating all around us. HIVE MIND [...]
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Dark Matter
Friday, October 12th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, October 12th 8pm FREE Physicist Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins and artist Ricardo Dominguez will present two perspectives on the invisible, intangible, enigmatic mystery material Dark Matter. Their diverging viewpoints will collide at a stimulating evening exploring hidden facets of our universe and culture. This evening kicks off a series of events organized by SPECULATIVE that investigate [...]