Fig. 1. A machine for double seeing.
Fig. 2. The Eyecraft ascending.
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MACHINES:
The Machines show will survey technology from the industrial revolution to today, with an emphasis on wondrous instruments, technological utopias, & forgotten machines. A cylindrical Edison phonograph and stereoscopic photography appear beside a Dreamachine and Teknopuppy in our Machine Arcade. As with past shows, the Museum confounds the very idea of its topic: What are machines, precisely? On what do they depend? What do they produce? What happens when they malfunction? Nanotechnology's invisible objects and molecular biology's talk of ribosomes as machines fall in line with the Museum's vision. Witness "the dime museum of the biotech era," where transgenetic jackalopes are poised on the edge of myth!
The exhibition's first display, MachinesMimesis™ , took the form of an event at the Cathedral of Junk:
photo gallery, hosted by Rural Rooster.
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SINCE rampant industrialization the COMMODITY takes on the luster of NATURE and the glitter of EXPERIENCE.
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GIVEN a machinic system producing OBJECTS and FORCES, we take for granted that ENERGY goes in and WASTE goes out. Thus, the object is coequal with its incoming POWER and outgoing TRASH.
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BEHIND each machine is another machine producing energy, and BENEATH each machine is the TRASH which can be transformed into a machine in itself.
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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES (e.g., waste; malfunctions) may be more profound in reproducing LIFE than intended production itself.
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HENCE, the QUALITIES of modern commodities will find their underside in our novelty exhibition, and these TRASH OBJECTS will prove more desirous than the THING ITSELF.
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