Art LA: The New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair $15-$25 January 26, 2007

Machine Project Programming
There will be an informative display on Fritz Haeg’s Edible Estates project.
The Fallen Fruit Collective will conduct a jam-making workshop.
Percussionist Corey Fogel will perform with 500 pepper shakers.
Sewing basics will be taught in a Machine Sewing 101 workshop.
Interested attendees will learn how to solder sound circuits with Mark Allen.
There will be a lecture linking Gnosticism, memory palaces, Y2K, text gaming and Roswell to the Disney film Tron.
Margaret Wertheim from the Institute for Figuring will give a talk and workshop on hyperbolic crochet, and present a crocheted reef.
Ambient music + free haircuts from volunteer hairdressers = ambient haircuts for the public.
Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann will read poetry.
The group ING will present a site-specific musical performance.
Tina Marin will demonstrate how to knit your own boots.
Players will avoid zombies in a dynamic video game.
Jessica Hutchins’s sculptures will appear in the auditorium restrooms, and she will give a reading.
We will be selling copies of various Machine Publications, MAKE and CRAFT magazines, as well as the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.
Emily Lacy will perform music and maybe teach web design.
There will be a guided exercise in the generation of collaborative narratives.
There will be a display on extracting ethanol, an alternative fuel source, from sugar.
We’ll build a 8 foot volcano out of live flowers.
Phil Ross will show a small piece involving hydroponics.