Machine Project was a Los Angeles based not-for-profit arts organization and community event space.
6-399: Founded by Mark Allen, Machine Project launched in 2003 with its inaugural show, 'Tom Jennings - Story Teller,' an installation produced by Tom Jennings , which was displayed from December 6, 2003 until January 24, 2004. In the museums first year, it displayed six different exhibits. Machine Project later moved toward larger collaborations, holding residences with major art museums, including
12-574: A group of artists affiliated with Machine Project installed a series of contemporary artworks around the historic home in ways that both highlighted and harmonized with the architecture. This included a secret basement restaurant operated by Bob Dornberger whose menu was inspired by the architecture, and a massive sculpture of a vortex on the front lawn by Patrick Ballard that was also a puppet. Machine Project announced its closure in January 2018. Tom Jennings Thomas Daniel Jennings (born 1955)
18-717: A one-day takeover of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on November 15, 2008 featuring 10 hours of performances, and a several month residency at the Hammer Museum in 2010, resulting in 80 programs including a series of micro-concerts in a coatroom. In 2014, Machine Projects intervened in the Gamble House in Pasadena, an early 20th century Craftsman home that once belonged to David and Mary Gamble, of Procter & Gamble fame. Allen and
24-501: Is a Los Angeles-based artist and computer programmer , known for his work that led to FidoNet (the first message and file networking bulletin board system , or BBS), and for his work at Phoenix Software on MS-DOS integration and interoperability . In 1983, Jennings created the Fido program, which spawned FidoNet , the first message and file networking bulletin board system (BBS). The FidoNet protocols were authored by Jennings in
30-732: The Fido program, and they were ultimately implemented by numerous authors in other software to create the full BBS, network using a multiplicity of platforms. Aside from creating the protocol for networking BBSes, Jennings: built Wired ' s first internet presence; wrote the portable BIOS that led to Phoenix Technologies BIOS, contributing to on MS-DOS integration and interoperability ; ran an early regional internet service provider – The Little Garden (later incorporated as TLGnet, Inc); and maintains an informal archive of Cold War science and technology. From 1988 until 1991, while he lived in San Francisco , Jennings
36-505: Was the publisher and co-editor, with Deke Nihilson , of Homocore , one of the earliest Queercore zines . The name came from the pages of J.D.s zine, and featured musicians and writers such as The Apostles , Steve Abbott, Donna Dresch , Larry Livermore , Daniel Nicoletta and G. B. Jones . The co-editors' other activities, such as organizing Homocore shows where bands such as Fugazi and Beat Happening appeared, and writing for and creating other publications, helped popularize
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