machine project

Solar Gadget Workshop

2012-02-05T01:25:39Z

Sunday, February 26th, 2012
12 – 4pm

Taught by David Casey

Members: $60
Non-members: $75

(All material fees included.)

The workshop will include an overview of how photovoltaic cells work, combining solar cells to power different electronics components, and then everyone will make a simple solar powered oscillator.

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.

Gift certificate purchase:
If you have a Machine Project gift certificate you’d like to redeem for a class, please email us at machine@machineproject.com and let us know.

Infantcore

2012-02-06T20:08:11Z

Saturday, February 18th 2012
11am – 4pm
FREE

Experimental music by babies. Motion tracking software converts the performers’ movements into sound.

FAQ

What?

After our friend Sally brought her baby Otto to play Nate Page’s Storefront Plaza we realized that we had a perfect baby vivarium on our hands, and if we were going to invite a bunch of babies to crawl around for an afternoon, why not put them to work as variables in a algorithmic sound composition?

How does that work?

Scott Cazan has written some software for the occasion that uses a camera and a computer to track the movement of the babies and convert that information into different sounds.

How will that sound?

Who knows, we haven’t done this before. It could sound terrible, not work, be boring, embarrass everyone and end in tears – like most everything at Machine Project.

Come I come watch even if I don’t have a baby?

Of course. the babies are the performers, you are the audience.

What age babies will be performing?

Our team of baby movement specialists have advised us that infants between the ages of 6 to 18 months provide the ideal movement parameters for our software.

Can my baby participate?

Maybe! We wrote a vague email requesting loaner babies last week and a surprising number of people volunteered their babies, so we might be all set on performers, but if you want to metaphorically throw your baby into the ring (baby parents or legal guardians only please) email m@machineproject.com with the subject line [sure, borrow my baby]

What kind of environmental conditions will the babies be subjected to?

The storefront plaza is exposed to the elements on the west side, so babies should dress for outdoor weather. To facilitate the motion tracking, we may request that individual babies wear specific, potentially unflattering colors. We’re hoping to work out a nice toy and blanket situation with participating parents.

I’m not sure my baby can perform for 5 hours straight

Of course not, babies will be expected to perform only until they become bored, start crying in an unappealing fashion, or their parents need to be somewhere else. Babies will be working in shifts.

D3: Object Divestment Services 1980 SPECIAL EDITION

2012-01-23T20:48:18Z

Saturday, February 11th, 2012, 4- 9pm - Deliver
Sunday, February 12th, 2012 , 1- 4pm - Destroy

D3 is Megan Cotts, Ali Prosch, and Brica Wilcox.

For 1980 Special Edition, D3 invites you to submit objects (real and imagined), ephemera, and ideas from the year 1980 to be destroyed. D3 will be accepting offerings on Saturday, February 11th from 4- 9pm at Machine Project. All submissions will go through an intake process and be incorporated into a sculptural archive on-site to be physically and energetically dismantled live on Sunday, February 12th. Destruction will begin promptly at 2pm. Please join us to witness the transformative ritual.

Grab a form to submit to 1980 Special Edition HERE.

D3’s 1980 Special Edition is presented as part of Liz Glynn’s Spirit Resurrection, which takes its cue from the 1980 performance festival Public Spirit. Amongst other things, 1980 marks the final year in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative. Spirit Resurrection is part of LACE’s exhibition and performance series Los Angeles Goes Live. For more about Glynn’s project, see http://www.spiritresurrection.org.

D3 is an artist-run service specializing in object divestment. Dealing with objects that are emotionally burdensome and have outlived their welcome, D3 provides a personalized step-by-step process to clients who wish to deaccession such items from their personal collections. This process is founded upon the 3 Ds: Deliver, Document, Destroy. This approach to destroying an object functions to transform matter, reorganize the energy it represents, and disperse the formidable associations triggered by the object. Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis. For more details, visit http://www.D-three.org.

Machine This Weekend: February 11th – 12th

2012-02-06T22:08:35Z

EVENT : D3: Object Divestment Services 1980 SPECIAL EDITION.

Saturday, February 11th at 4 – 9pm for delivery.
Sunday, February 12th from 1 -4pm for destruction
For 1980 Special Edition, D3 invites you to submit objects (real and imagined), ephemera, and ideas from the year 1980 to be destroyed. D3 will be accepting offerings on Saturday, February 11th from 4- 9pm at Machine Project. All submissions will go through an intake process and be incorporated into a sculptural archive on-site to be physically and energetically dismantled live on Sunday, February 12th. Destruction will begin promptly at 2pm. Please join us to witness the transformative ritual.

Graham Foust and Sarah Valentine

2012-02-01T23:18:01Z

Saturday, February 4th 2012
8pm
FREE

Graham Foust and Sarah Valentine will read from their translations of Ernst Meister and Gennady Aygi, respectively.

Graham Foust is the author of a number of books including A Mouth in California, Neccessary Stanger and the forthcoming To Anacreon in Heaven (all from Flood Editions). He is also the translator, from the German, of Ernst Meister’s In Time’s Rift, forthcoming next year from Wave Books.

Sarah Valentine’s new book, entitled Into The Snow, is a work of translations from the modernist Chuvash poet Gennady Aygi, which was published last fall by Wave Books.

Graham Foust and Amy Gerstler

2012-02-01T23:18:31Z

Friday, February 3rd 2012
8pm
FREE

Poets Graham Foust and Amy Gerstler will be reading from their work.

Amy Gerstler is the author of many fine books of poems including Dearest Creature, Nerve Storm and Bitter Angel, which won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.

Machine This Weekend: February 3rd – 4th

2012-02-03T17:58:53Z

EVENT : Graham Foust and Amy Gerstler.

Friday, February 3rd at 8pm.
Poets Graham Foust and Amy Gerstler will be reading from their work.

EVENT : Graham Foust and Sarah Valentine.

Saturday, February 4th at 8pm.
Graham Foust will be reading his own translations from the German poet Ernst Meister, while Sarah Valentine will be presenting her translations from the avant garde Russian poet of the Chuvash republic Gennady Aygi.

Discussion With David Graeber

2012-02-02T01:26:26Z

Thursday, February 2nd 2012
8pm

Author David Graeber will be holding an small, informal discussion on his latest book Debt: The First 5000 Years.

Sorry, event is full

David will also have a reading & signing on Wednesday, February 1st at Skylight Books.

Vivarium

2012-01-25T20:25:17Z

Monday, January 30th 2012
1pm
FREE

Two organisms unraveling sound and space through their bodies, voices and objects in motion.

Sarah Phillips & Carmina Escobar; voice, electronics and objects.

Duration: 45 min.

Bandwagon! (a combine)

2012-01-17T21:13:06Z

Sunday, January 29th 2012
8pm
FREE

A musical evening featuring questionable uses of technology inspired by David Tudor’s Bandoneon! (a combine). May include accordions, saxophones, drums, live video projection and/or dancing Coke cans. Curated by Isaac Schankler, with Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan, Daniel Corral, Sean Deyoe, Corey Fogel and Christopher O’Leary.