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Machine Project was a Los Angeles based not-for-profit arts organization and community event space. Machine Project's mission was to produce cultural programming that inspires audiences to become creatively active by imagining, participating and relating in new ways to the arts and sciences - utilizing a range of techniques, such as informality, humor, and surprise, in order to make new, exciting and complex ideas accessible. Machine Project offered workshops, exhibitions, performances, and talks at a storefront gallery in the Echo Park neighborhood, near the major intersection of Alvarado Street and Sunset Boulevard. It is also a gathering place for a loose alliance of artists who produce collaborative work in various locations around Los Angeles, including the Santa Monica beach and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Machine Project was founded by Mark Allen in 2004 and incorporated as a non-profit in 2005. In January 2018 Machine Project announced it would close its doors.

Overview
In a 2006 LA Weekly article, writer Gendy Alimurung described Machine Project as, "Nikola Tesla by way of P.T. Barnum, with a dash of 'The Anarchist Cookbook.' " Machine Project facilitates conversations between poets, technicians, artists, scientists, and obscure hobbyists and supports work that arises out of unusual combinations of interests. Past activities have included urban plant foraging and needlepoint therapy based on classic oil paintings. Machine Project prioritizes accessibility, explicitly courting amateur practitioners and curious locals. Workshops are regularly offered in sewing electronics, soldering, Arduino and Processing for artists.

Over the years, Machine Project has moved toward larger collaborations, holding residences with major art museums, including a one-day takeover of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on November 15, 2008 and a several month residency at the Hammer Museum in 2010. The show was described by LA Weekly as "epic".

Kamu Paton
https://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/497-kamau-patton-at-machine-project https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/episodes/machine-project-field-guide-to-la-architecture https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/11/30/arts/20081130-fink_index/s/20081130-fink_slide3.html

Forest
https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/incubators-machine-project

LACMA
[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] (LACMA) on November 15, 2008 and a several month residency at the Hammer Museum in 2010. The Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, which included over 50 individual events around the museum, has been described in the press as "epic," "Like Disneyland," and as having "the distinct feel of a summer camp." At the museums, Machine Project explores alternate, less formal ways of using the space and encourage more playful engagement with the collections. Machine Project has also curated events and exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where they raffled off a musical trip to the dentist with folk singer Emily Lacy, and the Pomona College Museum of Art, where they installed a floral chocolate volcano by artist Holly Vesecky. === Store Front Plaza ==

Storefront Plaza by Nate Page https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/nate-page-space-explorer https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/12/nate-page-at-machine-project.html

Carmina Escobar rehearses for "Fiesta Perpetua"
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-machine-project-20180104-htmlstory.html https://artillerymag.com/carmina-escobars-fiesta-perpetua/ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-carmina-escobar-pst-peformance-20180131-story.html https://www.laweekly.com/arts/echo-park-lake-becomes-home-to-fiesta-perpetua-from-sunrise-to-sunset-on-saturday-8246636