machine project

Reconfiguring!

2012-05-08T20:36:54Z

Machine Project is currently undergoing reconfiguration. We will be back to “normal” soon.

Mask-Making Workshop

2012-04-25T19:58:15Z

Sunday, May 6th
& Saturday, May 12th
11am – 2pm

With Joe Seely

Non-members: $75
Members: $65

Become a Machine Project Member and receive a discounted rate on all classes!

In this 2-day class you will learn to make a traditional buckram mask.

On day 1 we will:
-Sketch a series of masks
-Sculpt one of them in wet clay
-And create a shell of buckram over the sculpt
This process should take approximately 3 hrs.

On day 2 we will:
-Release and trim the shell
-Fit the mask to your punim
-Paint and your mask is complete.

Most every step of the way will be messy so wear work clothes.

Q- What the hell is buckram?
A- It is a millinery material that can be layered into a rigid lightweight shell. The instructor calls it the “Poor man’s Fiberglass.” It is super strong, light and great for puppets and masks.

Refund policy:
Please note, all class fees include a non-refundable enrollment deposit of $25 that will be deducted from your refund if you sign up for, then drop, a class. So, for example, if you sign up for Machine Sewing 101 and pay the $155 class fee, but then remember that you have trapeze school final exams that conflict with the Sewing class and shouldn’t have signed up after all, we will refund you $130 of your tuition payment.

Corpor

2012-05-02T07:01:55Z

Friday May 4th
ongoing 4-7pm

Saturday May 5th
ongoing 4-7pm

Sunday May 6th
ongoing 4-7pm

Emily Lacy brings sound and distortion to the final days of the Machine Project Transdimensional Hallway in a new piece entitled Corpor. Entering and exiting is encouraged in this 3-day performance examining presence, absence, and the business of our daily lives. From the roots of the word “corporate”, a mythology is explored around the body and it’s relationship to business and commerce as a whole. Emily will be using the unique shape of the hallway to distribute music dynamically.

Visitors to the work are encouraged to come and go as they please.

We said a 40 FOOT TREE

2012-05-01T04:06:32Z

Thursday, May 3rd 2012
ongoing from 8 – 10pm

A puppet show by DanRae Wilson and Miriam Jones

Swing by and see a 2 minute puppet show for 1- 2 people at a time. Perfect for on your way to or from dinner, as a destination for an evening stroll, or as a tiny pre-party to your big night out. Ongoing from 8-10pm, we’ll repeat the show as audience members drop in.

It’s an amusing and current little tale about Los Angeles, highlighting what a special place this city can be sometimes.
Appropriate for all ages. No dogs/pets, as we do use the floor for set pieces and performance.

Machine This Week: May 3rd – 6th

2012-05-02T07:03:31Z

EVENT : We said a 40 FOOT TREE.

Thursday, May 3rd ongoing from 8 – 10pm
A puppet show by DanRae Wilson and Miriam Jones. Swing by and see a 2 minute puppet show for 1- 2 people at a time. Perfect for on your way to or from dinner, as a destination for an evening stroll, or as a tiny pre-party to your big night out. Ongoing from 8-10pm, we’ll repeat the show as audience members drop in.

EVENT : Corpor.

Friday May 4th, Saturday May 5th & Sunday May 6th ongoing from 4 – 7pm.
Emily Lacy brings sound and distortion to the final days of the Machine Project Transdimensional Hallway in a new piece entitled Corpor. Entering and exiting is encouraged in this 3-day performance examining presence, absence, and the business of our daily lives. From the roots of the word “corporate”, a mythology is explored around the body and it’s relationship to business and commerce as a whole. Emily will be using the unique shape of the hallway to distribute music dynamically. Visitors to the work are encouraged to come and go as they please.

Dirges for Dead Malls

2012-04-11T21:05:29Z

Sunday, April 29th 2012
Performances at 8 & 8:30pm

“I think we’re alone now/ There doesn’t seem to be anyone around” – Tiffany

Gone are the days of blissful suburban wandering, shopping, and hanging out in the well-lit corridors and food courts of our past. Come mourn the great american shopping mall – an increasingly irrelevant space in an age of Big Box stores and economic angst.

Claire Cronin and Stephen Van Dyck will pay tribute to these dead, abandoned malls through a performance of 80′s pop hits redone as dirges, with a corresponding sound installation.

Special Theatrical Effects Workshop

2012-04-18T19:41:34Z

Saturday, April 28th 2012
2 – 5pm

With Chris Weisbart

Non-members: $45
Members: $35

Become a Machine Project Member and receive a discounted rate on all classes!

In this workshop, Multimedia Designer Chris Weisbart will discuss the hand-made effects in Asher Hartman’s “See What Love The Father Has Given Us,” running from March 29 to April 24th at Machine Project. This production, which transformed the storefront into an interdimensional hallway, created many opportunities for special effects done in very simple and practical ways. This workshop will give a behind the scenes tour of the set and discuss:

Special lighting effects, including DIY lighting control systems
Trap Door basics
Servo-actuated picture frames and the software to run them
The best, lightest-weight Pepper’s Ghost effect ever to hit an interdimensional hallway
PLUS the workshop includes the design and construction your very own shoebox pepper’s ghost!!

These topics will involve some basic lessons on popular DIY platforms such as: Arduino in conjunction with xbee wireless modems, simple DMX lighting control using dimmer packs and inexpensive light boards, and the basics of using the visual computer programming language PD. Do not be intimidated, though, these topics will be talked about in broad terms and with enough time to do some in depth Q and A.

Machine This Weekend: April 28th – 29th

2012-05-02T06:57:52Z

CLASS : Special Theatrical Effects Workshop.

Saturday, April 28th from 2 to 5pm.
Come learn the Pepper’s Ghost effect and more in this three hour workshop with multimedia designer Chris Weisbart.

EVENT : Dirges for Dead Malls.

Sunday, April 29th at 8 & 8:30pm.
Gone are the days of blissful suburban wandering, shopping, and hanging out in the well-lit corridors and food courts of our past. Come mourn the great american shopping mall – an increasingly irrelevant space in an age of Big Box stores and economic angst. Claire Cronin and Stephen Van Dyck will pay tribute to these dead, abandoned malls through a performance of 80?s pop hits redone as dirges, with a corresponding sound installation.

Poetry Hike With Michael Earl Craig

2012-04-19T03:49:27Z

Sunday, April 22nd 2012
3pm

Please join us for an afternoon hike with poet and farrier Michael Earl Craig, author of Thin Kimono now out on Wave Books.

Michael Earl Craig will read some poems along the way and then answer any questions you may have about the art of horseshoeing. This is indeed a special deal for both poetry enthusiasts as well as those interested in equestrian podiatry. Check out his bio and a poem here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/michael-earl-craig

LOCATION:

People will be meeting in the parking lot at the following address:

Wilacre Park
3431 Fryman Rd, Studio City, CA 91604
http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=66

There is a $3 fee to park in the lot. Please arrive early, hike embarks promptly at 3pm.

Maged Zaher

2012-04-19T03:03:29Z

Saturday, April 21st 2012
8pm
FREE

Space is limited, please RSVP at the following link:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3236934759

How the English Language Helped Me Become an Egyptian Poet

Poet Maged Zaher will be in town and reading and talking at Machine Project on April, 21st at 8 pm. Maged’s an awesome poet and a vibrant and compelling speaker with a lot to say about aesthetics and politics in Egypt and here in the States. His new book about going back to Cairo right after last year’s revolution is a great ride. The little poems it’s made of are full of discomfiting, confusing, sparkling and hilarious junctures and juxtapositions of images, speech, feelings and events.

Maged will be reading mainly from his latest manuscript “The revolution happened and you didn’t call me”, which is scheduled to come out from Tinfish press this summer. Maged will also be giving a talk – in between reading the poems – about his beginnings as an Arabic language poet, and his move to English a few years after his arrival in the US. The talk will touch upon the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the context of both Arabic and English “experimental” poetics.