Aperiodic Industries

07/03/2015

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/zip/5103252394.html

how can you say no to sam's race track, this begs for a new home!

Hello. I had a friend store this contraption at my house with the intent of finding it a happy home. It has been near two years now and it is still sitting in my yard. You know who you are you lame...

06/04/2015

Very interesting opportunity...

The opportunity is being provided by the Oakland Museum of California, which is in charge of distributing 450 tons of steel that formed part of the eastern span of the bridge between Oakland and San Francisco. “We want to give artists the chance to reconnect people to the old structure but also brin…

01/30/2015

LA street Pergola coming into focus. Thanks for all your support and participation.

09/11/2014

Friends in New York tonight come to the opening of our new work for Jenny holzer's show at Cheim and Reid gallery in chelsea? It's going to be fascinating.

03/24/2014

This is something that is seriously needed for the arduino platform to get more pro... Consider supporting it.

First ARDUINO compatible PLC in 3 different sizes - perfect for your next project where a little bit more than driving a LED is needed.

01/25/2014

The Materials & Applications retrospective is tonight in Long Beach, check out the S'more, full scale, indoors, its amazing how different it is to see an installation in a site it was not designed for completely new perspectives on the mass and volume!

Heads up to our Angeleno readers looking for weekend plans, come to the opening reception of "Materials & Applications: Building Something (Beyond) Beautiful, Projects 2002 - 2013", taking place from 6 to 8 p.m at the University Art Museum in Cal State Long Beach. Starting…

01/16/2014

We are putting s'more back together, indoors, for this show of the history of M&A :

The University Art Museum partners with the artist-led experimental architecture and design organization Materials & Applications (M&A) to present Materials & Applications: Building Something (Beyond) Beautiful, Projects 2002 – 2013 , on view January 25 – April 13, 2014.

12/14/2013

The Bay Bridge was a classic, it should have an interesting future... something worth considering...

Dear Members of the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee,   We, representatives of a large and dynamic community of industrial artist and makers in...

11/07/2013

Final ropes turned out great... Thanks to all the participants and particularly those who puppeteered the installation live, it was a unique and well received project that probably could only have been done as a workshop series because of the vast amount of research and development required.

10/29/2013

Cucumbers are fruits too!
tuesday 10/29 6pm - 8pm.

Please join us tuesday night to make a holiday gift for yourself and the Fallen Fruit pop'up store as part of the Hammer "art saves LA." We have designed a cucumber waffle wood puzzle concept that allows you to come by, model a cucumber, laser cut it, and a box. We only ask that if you make one, make one more we can sell at the Fruitique. Proceeds from this symposium will benefit the Aperiodic libations fund. Because symposium literally means "to drink together." Cucumber flavored drinks to be served, unless too cold in which case we will have hot toddys.

This event is free. You must RSVP by emailing [email protected].

10/29/2013

Next weekend November 2nd and 3rd we will erect and perform the ropes. Please join us in the culmination of this linear odysee. The final piece will be over 6000 feet of rope with numerous layers of animated components approximately 50 feet wide and 25 feet high and 20 feet deep. It should be very exciting.

No experience or previous attendance necessary. Just bring your curiosity! We will be cutting and tying hundreds of pieces of rope and then pulling on them in a very systematic way to the delight and amazement of an audience.

Saturday, November 2nd, 8AM - 8PM: install
Sunday, November 3rd, 12PM (noon) - 10PM: perform

You must RSVP by replying to this email. You do not have to be there for all the time but you do need to accurately report when you will be there. Thank you and we are very excited to work together!

San Gabriel Mission Playhouse
320 S Mission Dr, San Gabriel, CA 91776

10/19/2013

Learning The Ropes... 3

This Sunday, help choreograph the performance for the 2013 Ovation awards ceremony. For this, the 3rd workshop in the series,we will recap what we learned over the past month, develop computational and physical models for the final design, and build a full size prototype. So far we estimate 9000 feet of rope and about 254 knots!

Learning from the previous workshop's prototypes we have decided to tie all the ropes on stage, which means there is an opportunity for crew to work on stage both creating the set and puppeteering it during the performance in 2 weeks.

We will use Grasshopper to compute the exact numbers including time to tie the knots and the amount of rope needed for each knot. No experience or previous attendance necessary. Just bring your curiosity! But if you have a windows laptop and want to join in please install Rhino3d and Grasshopped3d (free demos of each available online).

Those not interested in the computational elements of the project can focus on the design and construction of the lectern for the awards, a prefabricated metal structure which we will modify and customize to accentuate the feeling of the stage.

Please join in the fun by RSVP'ing to this email if you are interested.

Sunday, October 20, 7PM - 10PM: design installation

Saturday, November 2nd 10AM - 5PM (tentative) : Build installation NEWLY ADDED
Sunday, November 3rd 10AM- 5PM (tentative) : perform installation NEWLY ADDED

Aperiodic Industries (2558 N San Fernando Rd Suite B44 Los Angeles, California 90065)

ps: directly down the street from aperiodic is a place called concord which is having an interesting sounding workshop about drones which I will probably attend before the Learning the Ropes 3, check it out, you might like it.