Machine Project describes itself as firstly a storefront in Los Angeles, but also an informal educational institution, and a loose group of artists and collaborators, but also an incorporated non-profit functioning on donations, members and volunteers .
Soundings, Bells at the Hammer Museum.
Hammer Museum Public Engagement Artist-In-Residence Program: Machine Project, July 17, 2010
The Hammer Museum invited the public to participate in ‘everyone in a place’, a day-long sound installation by Chris Kallmyer. The work was composed of the sounds of visitors wearing bells issued to them upon arrival, and their subsequent wanderings through museum spaces. Bell related sound pieces took place throughout the day, including circulating ice cream carts, an animatronic Bell Santa Gamelan in the museum’s coatroom, a solo amplified-bell performance, and an African bell ensemble.
Admission to the museum was free of charge to all participants.
A Year in the Life of a Coatroom Machine Project
2009-2010
Hammer Museum Public Engagement
Artist-in-Residence Program
Sound curated by Chris Kallmyer
Video edited by Ann Hadlock
Featuring Karina Kallas & Jason Yoshida, Emily Lacy, Joshua Beckman & Anthony McCann,Walter Kitundu & Robin Sukhadia, Chris Kallmyer,Andrew Conrad & Colin Woodford,Derde Verde,DanRae Wilson & Miriam Jones, Kim Free,Jessica Catron & Orin Hildestad, Tommy Santee Klaws, Carmina Escobar, Melinda Rice & Chris Votek, Brendan Carn, Andrew McIntosh, Casey Anderson, Scott Cazan & Chris Kallmyer, Andrew McIntosh & Andrew Tholl, Corey Fogel, Daniel Corral & Isaac Schankler, Luke Storm & Doug Tornquist, Brian Walsh and James Sullivan, Scott Cazan & Chris Kallmyer, and Rats.
Houseplant Vacation:
From their website, machine project describes their project below:
“The Hammer invites you to give your houseplant a vacation during our August Cultural Retreat for Plants. Throughout the entire month participants plants will be installed in the light flooded linbrook terrace, and presented with a series of readings, performances and musical events for plants. Plant portraiture provided by Lisa Anne Auerbach. We will provide a dedicated (one-way and auto-answering) phone line connected to a loudspeaker should you wish to call in and speak to your plants.”