MIXER

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MIXER

a steel cement mixer is retrofitted as 21st century media cocoon

type
installation
completed

2000

location

client

with Henry Urbach Architecture gallery

collaborators

John Hartman, project architect

fabrication

UAF / Marc Ganzglass

photography

Paul Warchol

collection

Guggenheim Museum

awards

concept & vision

MIXER transforms a steel cement mixer into a 21st century media cocoon suitable for lounging, viewing, and dreaming

design & architecture

fitted with 12” monitors connected to a variety of audio/video inputs (surveillance cameras, satellite TV, DVD player, Play station2) and lined with a memory foam soft interior, Mixer offers a plush, intimate environment animated by multiple forms of information and media

program & use

pivoting on its central axis, Mixer offers, in the spirit of a DJ mixing booth, a space for one or few people to select, sample, and mix sound and imagery to suit individual fantasies

impact & significance

from the road spinning concrete, to an art space, an ordinary mixer revisited, for a shared communal experience of technology, real, virtual, desired, imagined

related object:
tank
related project:
M.D.U. @ WHITNEY mobile / exhibited at:
∙ the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis - Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life, curated by Andrew Blauvelt, 2002
∙ the Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara - solo exhibition LOT-EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit, curated by Christopher Scoates, 2003
∙ the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - The Contemporary Series, curated by Debra Singer, 2004
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