马克·艾伦

马克·艾伦 is an artist, educator and curator based in Los Angeles. He is the founder and executive director of 机项目, a non-profit performance and installation space investigating art, 技术, 自然历史, 科学, 音乐, 文学, and food in an informal storefront in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. 机项目 also operates as an informal team of artists who collaborate to present work at locations ranging from beaches to museums to parking lots. 在他的指导下, Machine has produced shows with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 加州大学洛杉矶分校的哈默博物馆, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, and the Walker Museum in Minneapolis. He has produced over 1,000 events in Los Angeles at the 机项目 storefront space.

教学理念

1. Art is a space in culture for thinking about ideas.
2. Art is not defined by materials or means of production but the context in which it appears, 讨论与分析.
3. Art is a great excuse to do stuff you want to do.
4. Great ideas show up every day, there's no reason to be stingy with them.
5. Thinking happens with other people.
6. There is nothing wrong with creating beautiful things but there is something depressing about making unique collectables for the wealthy.
7. Interesting human beings can sustain multiple contradictory belief systems without dying from cognitive dissonance.
8. Your friends are your first and best audience.
9. Small, grassroots, and intimate is better than large, corporate, and formal.
10. Successful artists are empathic and can imagine themselves as the audience of their own work.

艾伦,马克. 机项目: The Platinum Collection. 萨拉托加温泉市, Tang Publications Spring 2016. 专著.

艾伦,马克. “Notes Toward Socratic Gardening.” 在峡谷里, Revise the Canon — Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-run Community Art Spaces in Southern California. Ed. 杰拉尔丁Gourbe. 雷恩：庇护所出版社，2015. 81-85. 打印

艾伦,马克. 机项目 Hammer Museum Public Engagement Artist in Residence Report. Los Angeles, 机项目 Press. 2013

艾伦,马克. 机项目: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 机项目 Press. 2009

特色展品

机项目: The Platinum Collection (Live By Special Request), The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at 斯基德莫尔大学, 萨拉托加温泉市, NY, 2015

边境机器项目, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, 德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校, 埃尔帕索, TX, 2014

The 机项目 Field Guide to L.A. 架构,J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2013

巴黎之家!, Mains d’œuvres, Paris, France, 2013

Intimate Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2012

Open Field, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2011

The Artist’s Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2010

The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, St. 密苏里州路易斯，2010年

A 机项目 Field Guide to LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA , 2008