Tag - exhibit
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JOIN THE BLACK CLOUD CITIZEN SCIENTIST LEAGUE
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
In July of 2008, a curious cumulus condensed above South Central Los Angeles. Unlike other clouds, it did not move with the wind. A team of researchers at UC Berkeley designed and built 5-channel sensor boxes, PuffTrons, which transmit data about the air directly to a web server, using on-board cell phones. A network of [...]
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“The Magic Window” by Desiree Holman
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Three Channel Video work installed at Machine Project from October 11 – November 1, 2008 TRT: 15 minutes Opening Reception Saturday, October 11, 2008 8pm Please join us for the opening of Desiree Holman‘s installation at Machine Project on Saturday, October 11th at 8pm. Desiree recreates the staging of classic family sitcoms like the Cosby [...]
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Industrial Melanism
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
by Hanna Rose Shell, with Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Anderson CAMOUFLAGE is systematic dissimulation or imitation for the purposes of concealment effected through human mimicry of natural animal, vegetable or mineral forms. It emerged as a potent response to photography’s practical and theoretical impacts on natural science, visual art and the military in the twentieth [...]
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Tomato Quintet
Monday, August 20th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
August 25th – August 31st Performance 8pm Friday August 31st, 2007 Free Chris Chafe (Music) and Nikolaos Hanselmann (Visuals) and Greg Niemeyer (Cook) team up to serve a night of tomato music. During the last week of August, they will let 5 cases of different varieties of tomatoes (from Chafe’s garden) ripen to perfection at [...]
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Kamau Patton
Thursday, June 14th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Opening Reception Saturday, September 22nd, 8pm September 22 – November 3, 2007 Glitter, Yoruba headdresses and visions of the Apocalypse meet in Kamau Patton’s exhibit at Machine, opening September 22nd at 8pm. Equal parts religious rite, glam spectacle and public access television show, Kamau’s video installations bring a personal cosmography to bear on existing folk [...]
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Psychobotany
Sunday, May 6th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Psychobotany: Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Human/Plant Communication, curated by Aaron Gach. May 12th – June 17th Opening Saturday May 12th from 7-10pm It is rumored that attendees may witness: – documentation of collaborations between plants, dancers, and synthesizers in the 70s – a plant alerting its owner of underwatering via telephone – plants responsive to touch [...]
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Psychobotany
Monday, April 2nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Aaron Gach presents Psychobotany: Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Human/Plant Communication Opening 7-10pm Saturday, May 12, 2007 and on display through June 17, 2007. Featuring the efforts of: Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose Botanicalls Cleve Backster Center for Tactical Magic Peter Coffin DARPA Earth Films Molly Frances Marc Herbst Denise King John Lifton Richard Lowenberg Jim Wiseman Tom [...]
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Whales and Cellphones
Monday, March 26th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
—————————————– Cadillac Beach (Limited Edition) Opening Friday, March 30, 8pm Showing Saturday, March 31 all day Cadillac Beach (Limited Edition) is a musical installation consisting of manipulated whale recordings, custom built sound systems and three Cadillac Escalades. Nearby tiny seagulls sing out of used styrofoam coffee cups, transplanting an oceanic experience to the sidewalk and [...]
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Garbage Darkness Music Soldering
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 at 10:28 am
The Hidden Life of Garbage 8pm Friday March 16th FREE Join us as author Heather Rogers reveals the hidden life of garbage. The talk based on her book, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, will take us through the surprisingly brief history of the trash heap. Topics covered will include: rat-eating dog armies, Rikers [...]
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Acousmatic Camera Obscura – Ezra Buchla
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Saturday March 17th 2007 Late Afternoon-ish Our inexplicable habit of trying to make our sun-filled storefront pitch black in mid-day continues Saturday, as Ezra Buchla will be transforming the gallery into a Camera Obscura. If it’s not too dark we will put pictures here later. Right now please enjoy this midi of black hole sun [...]
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Cadillac Beach (Limited Edition)
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Opening Friday, March 30, 8pm Showing Saturday, March 31 all day Cadillac Beach (Limited Edition) is a musical installation consisting of manipulated whale recordings, custom built sound systems and three Cadillac Escalades. Nearby tiny seagulls sing out of used styrofoam coffee cups, transplanting an oceanic experience to the sidewalk and the gallery. A piece by [...]
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Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir + ing blue
Monday, February 12th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir Feb 17th – March 4th Opening Feb 17 8-10pm Famed Iceland artist Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir past projects include cold cathode ray tube fireworks, a frozen puddle in the middle of the summer, and pop-up igloos. Ms. Jónsdóttir’s installation at Machine Project will be a suprise to all and sundry. Please join us [...]
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Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir Feb 17th – March 4th Opening Feb 17 8-10pm Artist talk Sunday, March 4th, 2pm Famed Icelandic artist Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir’s past projects include a sound reactive cold cathode wishing well, a frozen puddle in the middle of the summer, and pop-up igloos. Ms. Jónsdóttir’s current installation at Machine Project features fireworks [...]
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Takeshi Murata – Untitled (Silver)
Monday, October 30th, 2006 at 10:35 am
Nov 4th – Dec 3rd Opening November 4th 8-10pm Machine Project 1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026 Mario Bava’s classic 1960 Italian horror film, Mask of Satan is deconstructed pixel by pixel in Takeshi Murata’s hallucinatory new video, Untitled (Silver). Original soundtrack by Robert Beatty and Ellen Mollé Takeshi Murata in Art [...]
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Edible Estates
Friday, September 29th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
A reading room and lecture series at Machine Project. Organized by Fritz Haeg September 29th – October 29th Schedule 10.05.06 / Thursday / 7 – 10pm / #01 OPENING RECEPTION including garden readings by Lesley Stern 10.08.06 / Sun. / noon – 2pm / #03 ENDLESS GARDENING! Phil Ross & Marina Mcdougall vists from San [...]
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The Business Card Menger Sponge
Thursday, September 7th, 2006 at 7:00 am
by Dr Jeannine Mosely Presented by The Institute For Figuring and Machine Project Opening Saturday August 26th 7-10pm Artist talk by Dr Jeannine Mosely Sunday Sept 10th 8pm August 26th – September 24th Menger’s Sponge – named for its inventor Karl Menger and sometimes wrongly called Sierpinski’s Sponge – was the first three dimensional fractal [...]
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The Business Card Menger Sponge
Monday, August 21st, 2006 at 7:08 pm
by Dr Jeannine Mosely Presented by The Institute For Figuring and Machine Project This exhibition is curated by IFF director Margaret Wertheim Opening Saturday August 26th 7-10pm Artist talk by Dr Jeannine Mosely Sunday Sept 10th 8pm August 26th – September 24th Images from the show at Margaret Wertheim’s Flickr site More images from the [...]
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Fall Schedule
Friday, July 28th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Summer vacation was lovely, unfortunately we’re ending it early to get a couple events in during August. We’re starting out on Saturday August 12, with a launch party for the new issue of Make (Backyard Biology). That will be awesome. Next weekend after that (Sunday August 20th), The Fallen Fruit collective (who brought us the [...]
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Mach Infinity – Holly Vesecky
Saturday, March 11th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Mach Infinity consists of a geodesic dome containing a floral planetarium which proposes an alternative figurative technology for depicting the 16th of Charles Messier’s non-comet “fuzzy” objects, the Eagle Nebula.
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Believer – Karen Lofgren
Saturday, August 20th, 2005 at 12:00 am
A glowing unicorn in the basement!