Machine Project

Spring Semester 2013
Wednesdays 3:15-6:00
Room: E106

Machine Project contact:
Email m@machineproject.com

TA contacts:
Jarryd Joseph: jarrydjoseph@alum.calarts.edu
Deena Selenow: deenaselenow@yahoo.com

What is this class?
Team taught by the art collective Machine Project, this class examines contemporary approaches to performance from multiple perspectives (art, dance, music, poetry and theatre). Specific emphasis is placed on direct group experience and participation. Each class meeting will be led by a different artist associated with Machine Project.

What do I need to do?
Your task is to show up to each meeting on time and to participate in as open, engaged, and committed way as possible.

How is this class graded?
Your grade is based directly on being present and participating. If you are in, you get full credit for that class meeting. If you’re not, you get zero credit for the class meeting. Students arriving late will not be allowed to participate or observe. Medical absences are excused only with documentation from a doctor or health services.

Late policy:
Students arriving late will not be allowed to participate or observe. Each meeting features limited time with a different artist, and there is no time to waste. The show must go on.

Who is Machine Project?
Machine Project is a non-profit performance and installation space investigating art, performance, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food in an informal storefront in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Machine Project also operates as a loose confederacy of artists producing shows at locations ranging from beaches to museums to parking lots. Machine has produced shows with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, and the Walker Museum in Minneapolis and has recently concluded a year long artist residency addressing topics of public engagement at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Who’s leading the meetings?

January 23: Krystal Krunch
January 30: Carmina Escobar
February 6: Anthony McCann
February 13: Adam Overton
February 20: Emily Mast
February 27: Cliff Hengst
March 6: Dawn Kasper
March 13: CA Conrad
March 20: Joe Seeley

Spring Break

April 3: Corey Fogel
April 10: Liz Glynn
April 17: Jmy James