Tag - lecture
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DNA Nanotechnology and the molecular revolution
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
DNA isn’t just for sex determination and solving terrible crimes. Phil Lukeman and Paul Rothemund will tell you about how scientists and engineers are using DNA as a smart building material.
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Pie Theory Lecture + Practicum
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
8pm Saturday, December 13th, 2008 December Artist in Residence and pie afficionado Joshua Beckman has arranged a Pie Theory Lecture and Practicum this Saturday night. The night starts with a Pie-making Primer, where guest Master Pie-maker Jen Bervin and Apprentice Pie-maker Joshua Beckman will demonstrate introductory pie-making techniques. Then enjoy a lecture on the theory [...]
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The Mind Diddlers
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 11:50 am
A Lecture with Jason Brown Friday September 19th 8pm Short description: Alien sex! with Jason Brown! Talking about alien sex! Longer description: Genetic algorithms of Jeff Bridges, the sexy origins of modern rocketry and Scientology, mythology of aliens abducting your wife and the perversion at the heart of information technology. Free!
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Air Quality Case Study: Echo Park
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 at 11:27 am
PuffTron at I and A Cleaners K&C Donuts Sunset Nursery the Vermont & Hollywood Gas Station Downbeat Cafe Machine Project No Place Like Home Restaurant Virgil Nails A Presentation Saturday, August 30th 8pm FREE On Saturday, August 30, at 8pm, the Black Cloud Citizen Science League will present the results of a week-long air quality [...]
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A Speech Recognition Sing-along
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Lecture by Joe Tepperman Performance by Mooey Moobau 8pm Friday September 5th, 2008 Everyone seems to hate automatic speech recognition. Either it keeps us from telling an actual person that we need our water turned back on, or it dials Mom when we’re trying to call Molly. It is no wonder most musicians and spoken-word [...]
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Cranioklepty: A History of Phrenological Graverobbing
Saturday, August 9th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
8pm Sept 13th Free With the rise of phrenology, the early 19th century saw a host of bizarre grave robberies, in which the graves of famous men were plundered for their owners’ skulls. Both scientific curiosities and morbid fetishes, the skulls became subject to extended legal battles between religious and secular authorities over who owns [...]
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This week in Camouflage
Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
We’re lucky to be joined this week by Hanna Rose Shell, who is creating a week of events around the history and practice of camouflage. Saturday June 28 at 8pm we are presenting Animal Mimicry and the Media of Reconnaissance This event explores the “mixed-media†foundations of modern camouflage. Artist and historian Hanna Rose Shell [...]
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“Animal Mimicry and the Media of Reconnaissance”
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Artist Talk by Hanna Rose Shell Saturday, June 28th, 2008 8pm This event explores the “mixed-media†foundations of modern camouflage. Protective coloration in nature motivated Thayer’s media experiments in science and illusion, concealment and revelation. Artist and historian Hanna Rose Shell focuses the story on artist, naturalist and media innovator Abbott Handerson Thayer (1854-1921). In [...]
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Real Life Superheroes
Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Saturday August 2, 2008 8pm Joshuah Bearman discusses the real and true exploits and foibles of real life superheroes, who, just as it seems, are people who fight crime in costume.
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A Lecture on the Mating Habits of Sea Slugs + Fol Chen
Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Please join us this Friday May 30th at 8pm for a long-awaited lecture on sea slugs and their perverse mating habits, by nudibranch afficionado Patrick Krug.
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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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24 Hours of LeMons motor race: Presenting Team Make:Way!
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 8pm Earlier this year, Make Magazine agreed to sponsor Jason Torchinsky in fielding an entry into the 2008 24 Hours of LeMons motor race: an endurance race for cars valued at $500 or less. Jason gathered the best people in the field with enough free time and some interest in racing [...]
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Blank Spots on a Map: State Secrecy and the Limits of the Visible
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 11:34 am
A lecture by Trevor Paglen Friday, May 23rd 8pm Geographer and artist Trevor Paglen explores the network of hidden budgets, state secrets, covert military bases, and disappeared people that military and intelligence insiders call the “black world.” Over the course of his talk, Paglen will lead us from “non-existent” Air Force and CIA installations in [...]
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Artist Talk with Klaus Weber
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Sunday, May 18th 8pm Please join us for an artist talk by Klaus Weber on Sunday May 18th at 8pm. Past works by Mr. Weber include sidewalk-destroying mushrooms, choral crickets, a car crashed into a functional fire hydrant and a fountain of potentialized LSD. He is currently working on a massively oversized Satanic wind chime. [...]
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A Lecture on the Mating Habits of Sea Slugs, + Fol Chen
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Friday May 30th 8pm FREE! “A slug’s life: sex, color, and new species in the sea” by Patrick Krug and! A concert by Fol Chen Far from your garden-variety, sea slugs are vividly colorful animals that display stunning adaptations to life in the ocean. While snails cower inside cumbersome shells, evolution has freed the slugs [...]
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TABLACENTRIC: Closing Party
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
TABLACENTRIC Closing Party – 10PM – 1AM FREE featuring DJ Disko AM, and Robin Sukhadia (SADUBAS). Special guests include Mike, Sheila Govindarajan & Walter Kitundu. live art by Santiago Heredia VJ: Karl Fornander TABLACENTRIC wouldn’t be complete with a killer party, celebrating an entire month of musical exploration, listening, cooking, invention, and playing tabla. Come [...]
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Denise King – Bacterial Terrariums and other delights
Monday, January 7th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Welcome back to another year of fun at Machine Project. Next week we will be reconstructing Rome in 24 hours (including the visagoth invasion). This week please join us on Thursday for a lecture and workshop with Denise King and her collection of decorative bacteria… Denise King – Aesthetics of Bacteria Thursday Jan 10th, 8pm [...]
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SymbioticA lecture
Saturday, December 1st, 2007 at 12:00 am
We’re very pleased to be hosting Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr from the art/biology think tank SymbioticA at Machine this weekend.
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SymbioticA
Sunday, November 25th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
We’re very pleased to be hosting Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr from the art/biology think tank SymbioticA at Machine this weekend. They will be speaking on Saturday night, and leading a tissue culturing workshop Sunday. SymbioticA’s past projects include growing all kinds of amazing things, including… 1. Disembodied Cuisine. Pre natal sheep skeletal muscle cells [...]
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Conspiracy means “breathing together”
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Jason Brown Thanksgiving Weekend Conspiracy Special Lecture Show. Friday Nov 23rd – 8pm Free It’s American conspiracy campfire stories with a musical component, and some sing along, like a paranoid sound of music, or if the rocky horror picture show were a documentary. Starting off (?) with the night Oswald spent in jail, Nov 23, [...]