A Machine Project Field Guide to the LA County Museum of Art
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On November 15th, 2008 Machine Project was invited to visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, orchestrating ten hours of performances, workshops, and events experimenting with LACMA’s expansive grounds and enormous collection of stuff.
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A really quite wonderful book containing photos, drawings, plans, text, and other assorted evidence that this momentous day actually happened, is now available for purchase at Machine or downloaded for free. Designed by the talented Kimberly Varella and the Department of Graphic Sciences
http://www.machineproject.com/files/pdf/MP0806_LACMA_Final.lo-res.pdf
- Here you can download the handout and map that we distributed during the event. We also have about 600 of these in our basement, so if you want one or twenty of them for your obsessive collection of Machine marginalia, stop on by.
- While you’re at it, how about a poster from the event?
- And we’ve got some nice videos over here.
- This project was co-funded by LACMA’s public programs, the Ralph M Parsons endowment, and machine project’s much beloved funders.
We are still in the process of documenting the show – below you can find brief info on each project.
- Barbershop Hum Quartet
- Ambient Haircut – Ambient Force 3000
- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Exploded – Matthew Au
- Alpha Lacma Majoris – Jacinto Astiazaran, Fritz Haeg and Flora Wiegmann
- Distance Learning – Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann
- Cheryl Cambras – Birds for Chris Burden
- Wands – Center for Tactical Magic
- LACMA Fruit Map and Tour – Fallen Fruit
- Lasagna Cat live – Fatal Farm
- The Birds Have Their Own Museum, Volume 2 – The Faraway Places Modal Energy Music Configuration
- Untitled (Wiener Werkstätte, Textile Length) CD – Fol Chen
- Kinetic Companions – Ken Ehrlich
- Decisions-Decisions-Decisions – Jim Fetterley
- Countercumulative Marcotting – Corey Fogel
- Replica Replica, After W.R.H. – Liz Glynn
- Realer – Hooliganship
- Le Hunt: Murder in the Museum – Jessica Z. Hutchins and Dawn Kasper
- Cheer up the Loneliest Gallery – Stephanie Hutin & Florencio Zavala
- Hyperbolic Crochet Plastic-Bag Workshop – Christine and Margaret Wertheim
- Slow Walking Color Takers – ing
- Melancholy Contrabass Improvisations – Laura Steenberge
- The Intensity and Beauty of Shadows (Recordings of LACMA) – Lewis Keller
- Field – Sheila Govindarajan, Walter Kitundu, and Robin Sukhadia
- Kinetic Sun Painting – Walter Kitundu
- Please Don’t Touch Anything – Emily Lacy
- Emily Lacy – Folk Songs of the Modernist Period
- Douglas Lee – Glass Harmonica
- Karen Lofgren – Believer
- Machine Musical Elevator
- Build Your Own Synthesizer Workshop
- Gothic Arch Speed Metal – Christy McCaffrey and Sara Newey with Mark Richards and Alexy Yeghikian
- Andre, you forgot about the fire – Michael O’ Malley
- Potter Wasp and Mason Bee Consider Structural Integrity – Kelli Cain and Brian Crabtree.
- Takeshi Murata and Lucky Dragons
- The Phenomenon of Intersection: Three Tours by Anne O’Malley
- Time after Time after (for Chet Baker) – Adam Overton
- Experimental Music and Massage – Adam Overton and Friends
- Mission Control Bunker – Nate Page
- Proliferation of Concept / Accident Tolerant – Kamau Patton
- Richard Serra Reading Room – The Public School
- From Here to Here – Casey Rentz
- Foal Army (Budget Cuts) – Douglas Irving Repetto
- Ursonorous Disruptions – Daniel Richert and Mathew Timmons
- Leviathans – Philip Ross
- The Drift – Kelly Sears
- PremaSoul
- Phylogeography and the Multiplex – Ryan Taber
- Peeping Netsuke – Jason Torchinsky
- Hydropticonium – Jason Torchinsky
- Sam Frantasy – Josh Beckman and Holly Vesecky
- Parts – Kristina Yu
- Nap Area
- Lost Kitten!