Machine Projects with Jim Fetterly Machine Project is an educational arts non-profit organization founded in November, 2003. Machine Project provides educational resources to artists working with technology; strives to educate and collaborate with artists to produce site-specific, non-commercial work; and works to promote conversations between artists, scientists, poets, technicians, performers and the communities of Los Angeles as a whole. These three aims are closely related. With our wide array of cultural programming, we demonstrate the creative possibilities of technology to open up interdisciplinary conversations between disparate knowledge communities. With our presentations and lectures, we offer rarified knowledge in a friendly, human manner, and we foster a greater understanding between art and science. And at the most practical level, we offer hands-on training in some of the skills presented in our exhibits and lectures, putting knowledge tools into the hands of our community and giving them the ability to create work of their own. JIM FETTERLEY Jim Fetterley is a documentary film and videomaker. Fetterley received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. Since 1996, he has time shared the role of an artist with Rich Bott producing ephemeral video art, installation, and social sculpture as Animal Charm. By re-editing sounds and images derived from a wide variety of sources, they scramble media codes, and disrupt conventional forms with transgressive messages. With an uncanny relationship to the video vernacular found on line, these video remixes and random acts of confusion blur the lines and create tension between documentary production and recombinant video art and performance. He is currently Technical Director of the Hammer Museum. Fetterley’s film and video works include: Decisions—Decisions—Decisions—, (2008-2009); Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, (2008); Steve Kurtz Waiting, in collaboration with Angie Waller, (2007); Sunday Night, Saturday Morning, (2004-2005); Repeater Pencil, (2003-2004) Raymond Pettibon, dvd production and post production, Premiered at Whitney Museum of American Art and SITE, Santa Fe, NM, limited edition of 10 dvds, Regen Projects. Since 1996, Jim Fetterley has collaborated with Rich Bott producing ephemeral video art, installation, and social sculpture as Animal Charm. Distributed by Video Data Bank, Animal Charm’s audio/video art collaboration include single channel videos: Sunshine Kitty, 2:30, (1996); Lightfoot Fever, 1:30, (1996); Slow Gin Soul Stallion, 2:30, (1996); Working Together, 2:00, (1996); Ashley, 9:00, (1997); Stuffing, 4:00, (1998); Mark Roth, 4:00, (1998); Family Court, 4:00, (1998); Hot Mirror, 11:30, (1998); Marbles, 6:30, (1998); Preserve Your Estate, 9:30, (1998); Target, 8:30, (1999); 80 + Miracles, document of live show for LUX, UK, 80:00, (2000); Brite Tip, 3:00, (2002); Body Prep, 1:30, (2002); Camera Dance, 3:45, (2002); Computer Smarts, 1:30, (2002); Il Mouille, 4:30, (2002); Relaxercise, 45:00, (2003); The Floridian, 2:00, (2004); Pet Programming, 1:30, (2004); Terrorized, 3:00, (2004); Solar Fox, 1:00, (2004); Street Shapes 1:30, (2005); Herzog's Jew's Harp DUI, 1:21, (2006); Lighter than a Feather 1:30,( 2007); Edge TV 3:39, (2008); and Baby Preacher Death Metal, 1:30, (2008). Their video compilations include: Animal Charm Golden Digest, 80:00, (1995- 2006); OthercinemaDVD; The 70's Dimension, 100:00, (2005); OthercinemaDVD; Peripheral Produce's All-Time Greatest Hits, 90:00, (2003); FELIX: Journal of Media Arts, Risk/Riesgo DVD compilation & Book, Video Data Bank; Animal Charm Video works Volume 3: Computer Smarts, 14:15, Video Data Bank (2002); The Starlight Dynamic Video Mix Tape, 90:00, (2001); American Psycho(drama); Sigmund Freud vs. Henry Ford, guest curated by Nelson Henricks, Video Data Bank comp (2000); Animal Charm Video works Volume 2: Hot Mirror Mix, 26:00, Video Data Bank (1999); The Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape, 70:00, Peripheral Produce (1998); and Animal Charm Video works Volume 1, 19:00, Video Data Bank (1997). Animal Charm’s selected exhibitions, screenings, and performances include: Psychometry, 59th Berlinale International Film Festival, Animal Charm Screening of Edge TV- Berlin, Germany (2009); 20th Anniversary of Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema Programming, ATA, SF, CA- Animal Charm Performance (2009); Transmodal- Baltimore, MD- Animal Charm Performance (2009); Future Heat, Co-Curated Video Art Screening, Showcave Gallery, L.A., CA, Edge TV screening (2008); Crossroads: Tribute to Bruce Conner, Group Show, Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY, Animal Charm "Edge TV" single Channel Video (2008); Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain, Animal Charm Screening (2008); Summer Sizzlers, Co- Curated Video Art Screening, Showcave Gallery, LA, CA, Baby Mobach Screeing (2008); Rainbow Bites, Impakt Festival, Utrecht Holland (2008); Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art & Design, Australia (2008); Live Cinema- Thomas Beard book release, San Francisco Cinematheque at ATA, San Francisco, CA, Animal Charm Performance (2008); Underground Cinemachine Group Show, Machine Projects, L.A., CA Installation (2007); UnNatural Disaster, University of Texas, Dallas, Greg Metz Curator, Animal Charm Installation (2007); Olympia Film Festival, WAY (2006); University of California San Diego (2006); Echo Park Film Center, CA (2007); Transformations 1: Remixing the Archive, University of Southern California Los Angeles (2006); Aurora Picture Show: Media Archeology, Houston, TX (2005); Videoex, Zurich Switzerland (2005); LA freewaves festival, Los Angeles (2004); Rencontres internationals, Paris/Berlin (2004); Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Museum of Art (2004); New York Underground Film Fest (2003); RedCat Theater, Los Angeles (2003); Cinevegas, Las Vegas NV (2003); Chicago Underground Film Festival (2003); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2002); Foxy Productions, Brooklyn NY (2002); Museum of Contemporary Art- Version Fest, Chicago (2002); LA Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles (2002); Animal Charm performance, Sundance Film Festival (2002); "Adolescent boys, and living rooms” Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2002); "Media Made Me..." Centre de George Pompidou, Paris (2001); Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison (2001); University of California at Los Angeles (2001); Television Festival, Bogota, Columbia (2001); Dallas Video Festival, TX (2001); The American Century, Ashley screening, Whitney Museum of American Art (2000); Filmforum at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2000); Television Festival, Bogota, Columbia (2000); Below 54, London (2000); New York Expo of Short Film and Video (2000); Arc, Stockton-on-Tees, UK (2000); The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999); Los Angeles Film Forum LACE (1999); Impakt Festival, Utrecht (1999); The Blinding Light Theater, Vancouver (1999); Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris (1999); Olympia Film Festival, WAY (1999); University of Illinois, Chicago (1998); 911 Media Arts Center Seattle (1998); Chicago Underground Film Festival (1998); New York Underground Film Festival (1998); Film Forum at LACE, Los Angeles (1998); and San Francisco International Film Festival (1997). Fetterley’s work belong to the following collections: Harvard University; The Video Data Bank; Art Center College of Design Video and Slide Library; Carnegie Mellon University; University of California Riverside Library; Bard Video Library, Anthropology Program; LUX Distribution, Center for the Arts, London; and Contemporary Arts Media, Australia. Fetterley has earned the following awards and grants: 2001 Audience Choice Award, Dallas Film Festival; 2000 Jury Prize, Videoex Festival, Zurich, Switzerland; 1999 Silver Hugo, Exp. Video Category, Chicago Int'l Film Fest; and 1997 Golden Gate Award, New Visions Category, SF Int'l Film Fest. Jim Fetterley lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Artist bio compiled and written by Anna Mendoza, Curatorial Associate, Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College