m4ch1n3

I'm having an opening at my new space this Saturday afternoon, 1pm to 4pm. Holy shit, is it not ready. The artist isn't installing until the morning of the show. The interior walls keep falling down. I keep taking a nap when I'm supposed to be getting stuff done. It's going to be glorious!

Unlike the last show, I'll let you in a little early, and you can hang out as long as you like. Find the so called "press release" below. Also, before I forget, huge shout out to master builder Beau Heggen and architect supreme Fritz Haeg.

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We've been looking for a place to show sculpture, installation and technology that doesn't entail any of the following;

art on the wall
net art
white cube
black cube
cube
a subconscious desire to emulate the apple store.

We didn't find it, so we're opening a space called Machine. The gallery opens this Saturday afternoon, December 6th from 1-4pm with "Story Teller" by Los Angeles artist Tom Jennings.

Story Teller is an experimental narrative about British mathematician/code breaker Alan Turing told using obsolete media -- perforated paper tape, teletype, phoneme-speech, glowing phosphors and ink-on-paper. The text is encoded 8 bytes per inch on a 700 foot roll of paper tape, which runs through a variety of cold war era technology on a daily eight hour journey from spool to floor.

Historian of cold war computing and archivist of obscure and extinct technologies, Mr Jennings is the founder of FidoNet, the largest amateur computer network in the world, as well as a recipient of Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award. We're very flattered to present his first one person show in Los Angeles.

Created to function as a research lab, project space and short term residency for visiting artists, Machine was designed as a collaboration between C-level co-founder Mark Allen and Los Angeles architect Fritz Haeg. Machine rejects the implied neutrality of the empty white cube - constructed of modular mobile units, the gallery transforms itself for each exhibit. Machine is located at 1200 D North Alvarado Street, just north of Sunset. For more information email m@m4ch1n3.com, or call 213-483-8761.

Tom Jennings: wps.com
Gallery: m4ch1n3.com
Architect: fritzhaeg.com
Director: markallen.com