Event Archive for February, 2012
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Elemental Gasification
Sunday, February 26th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 26th 2012 8pm Free with RSVP Artist and backyard engineer Jessica Segall will give a presentation on elemental gasification. In this talk and following Q and A session, Jessica will give an overview on woodgas history, how to generate electricity or run your car on burning wood, and discuss the relationship of gasification [...]
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Affect-adjusted graphological readings
Saturday, February 25th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Saturday, February 25 2012 ongoing 12 – 4pm DROP-IN / FREE Ben Benjamin will be performing free handwriting analysis from 12 to 4pm. Pens and pencils and stationery will be provided free of charge. Please note! We cannot provide non-affect-adjusted graphological readings.
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Battle of Los Angeles 70th Anniversary Commemoration
Friday, February 24th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, February 24 2012 8pm FREE Shortish lecture on the Battle of Los Angeles by Jason Brown, with gentle yet emotionally-powerful musical accompaniment. Followed by a sound performance by AMBIENT FORCE 3000 (working title: “Threnody ’42: The Silence of the Cows”).
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Boundary Pageant #2
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, February 23rd 2012 8pm FREE Census tracts and statistical citizenship Please join us for a night of critical demography. Jerry Wong, Information Services Specialist for the Census Bureau’s Los Angeles Regional Office of the US Census will unpack the history of tract #06037195, where Machine Project is located, and how the census knows what [...]
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Massagem Sonora
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 at 11:00 am
Wednesday, February 22 2012 Ongoing from 11am – 4pm DROP-IN / FREE An experiment on intimacy, personal space and bodily resonance by Carmina Escobar. Massagem Sonora establishes a relationship of discovery between individuals, usually strangers, that allow themselves to be improvised on via voice and facial resonators applied to their bodies to discover their own [...]
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Infantcore
Saturday, February 18th, 2012 at 11:00 am
Saturday, February 18th 2012 11am – 4pm FREE Experimental music by babies. Motion tracking software converts the performers’ movements into sound. FAQ What? After our friend Sally brought her baby Otto to play Nate Page’s Storefront Plaza we realized that we had a perfect baby vivarium on our hands, and if we were going to [...]
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Machine Project in Monterey Bay #3
Thursday, February 16th, 2012 at 7:00 pm
THURSDAY, Feb 16 // 7pm – 9pm TAT Studio, CSU Monterey Bay on the corner of 6th and A Pitch Battles: A Multimedia Investigation into Musical Tunings Machine Project presents a night of art and writing exploring a rather esoteric bit of musical ephemera and the insane controversy it’s generated. In overlapping performances, Colin Dickey, [...]
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Machine Project in Monterey Bay #1
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Wednesday, February 15 // noon – 2:00 TAT Studio, CSU Monterey Bay on the corner of 6th and A SOLDERING, THE MUSICAL Chris Kallmyer will be fearlessly driving up the coast of California on major roads in a classic 1996 acura with 217,000 miles and 20 soldering irons to visit Enid Blader’s Department of Teledramatic [...]
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D3: Object Divestment Services 1980 SPECIAL EDITION
Saturday, February 11th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Saturday, February 11th, 2012, 4- 9pm - Deliver Sunday, February 12th, 2012 , 1- 4pm - Destroy D3 is Megan Cotts, Ali Prosch, and Brica Wilcox. For 1980 Special Edition, D3 invites you to submit objects (real and imagined), ephemera, and ideas from the year 1980 to be destroyed. D3 will be accepting offerings on Saturday, [...]
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Graham Foust and Sarah Valentine
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 4th 2012 8pm FREE Graham Foust and Sarah Valentine will read from their translations of Ernst Meister and Gennady Aygi, respectively. Graham Foust is the author of a number of books including A Mouth in California, Neccessary Stanger and the forthcoming To Anacreon in Heaven (all from Flood Editions). He is also the [...]
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Graham Foust and Amy Gerstler
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, February 3rd 2012 8pm FREE Poets Graham Foust and Amy Gerstler will be reading from their work. Graham Foust is the author of a number of books including A Mouth in California, Neccessary Stanger and the forthcoming To Anacreon in Heaven (all from Flood Editions). He is also the translator, from the German, of [...]
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Discussion With David Graeber
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, February 2nd 2012 8pm Author David Graeber will be holding an small, informal discussion on his latest book Debt: The First 5000 Years. Sorry, event is full David will also have a reading & signing on Wednesday, February 1st at Skylight Books.