Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0975314041 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 172 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"describes well Machine Project" according to W Boudville. The book depicts an unusual and original collaboration between the well known (internationally!) Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Machine Project. The latter is certainly not as renowned. It is a group of creative types, spanning the arts, science and engineering. Machine Project regularly holds events in a modest shop in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles.What is shown in the book is a result of Machine Project being allowed to indulge themselves in situ for a day at LACMA. Thus, against the backdrop of very traditional and expensive artworks (see the book cover for an example) are funky compositions spaw
On November 15, 2008, Machine Project took over the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to orchestrate ten hours of performances, workshops and events experimenting with the museum's collection and seven-acre campus. Machine Project documents over 50 artists' projects, contextualized with interviews and essays. Machine Project is a Los Angeles-based social experiment that investigates art, technology, natural history, music and poetry through collaboration and conversation. Highlights include a nineteenth-century description of the invention of the glass harmonica, a fragmentary history of the museum's architect, instructional diagrams for do-it-yourself mechanisms, a fruit salad recipe based on the museum's collection, and a tour of the museum's campus during the Pleistocene epoch.