[Basekamp Events] Machine Project - Jun 1 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

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June 1, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations  
and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with Mark Allen from Machine Project in LA.

http://www.machineproject.com/

Is Plausible Artworlds about machines? Though weird sounding, that may well  
be the right question to ask. There has been a lot of writing recently about  
machines — drawing on Marx’s unconventional Fragment on Machines and  
Deleuze & Guattari’s more orgiastic speculations on (desiring) machines —  
suggesting that machines are neither mere prostheses of our bodies (unlike  
tools) nor mere engines of alienation, but rather factors of communication,  
creating unthought-of connections and couplings. In other words, machines  
like artworlds, machines like us do not extend or replace artworlds and  
bodies but make new arrangements… well, plausible.

Machine Project is a non-profit presentation and educational space  
investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature,  
food, and whatever else humans like to do. The Project occupies a storefront  
space in Echo Park and more broadly operates as a loose confederacy of  
artists producing shows at locations ranging from the Santa Monica beach to  
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Though the diversity and scale of a city like LA gives Machine Project a  
virtually inexhaustible energy source, our broader cultural moment seems ripe  
with the desire to build machines, work together and create new and hybrid  
forms of culture. This suggests there is a need to rebuild and retool, from  
the ground up and in a grassroots way, an infrastructure for spaces and  
communities that allow people to come together around a life of ideas.  
Machine Project has always been about encouraging people – machines like  
us, or even drastically unlike us – to make culture for themselves and  
encourage them to want to experience it together.

See you all then!

Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename:  
‘basekamp’
If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
Basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa

NOTE: All Skype “Join” links are /still/ broken. In the meantime, to join  
this week’s Potluck Chat:
 * Download from skype.com if you don’t already have it
 * In Skype “Add a contact”: basekamp
 * Send a message when you want to join the chat, by selecting us from your
   list and clicking ‘Start chat’
 * We’ll add you to the text chat, and when everyone is ready we’ll start
   the conference call


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Comment here
http://basekamp.com/about/events/machine-project#comments [1]

/Plausible Artworlds is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen Wright,  
and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the  
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative./


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