the art of memory

francisco lópez - machines - elevator bath - 2010
(eeaoa030)
based upon sounds of machinery
(clocks, elevators, various laboratory and factory equipment)

some machines collected, inspired by the recent elevator bath release:

der lauf der dinge - 1987

nicolas-joseph cugnot - steam locomotive - 1770-1771

jacques vaucanson - duck - 1733-1734

pierre jacquet-droz - young writer - c. 1770

vladimir tatlin - letatlin - c. 1930 (flying machine)

alberto giacometti - the captured hand - 1932

(images from k.g. pontus hultén's
the machine as seen at the end of the mechanical age - moma - 1968)

rube goldberg

marcel duchamp
the bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even or the large glass
1915-1923

marcel duchamp - rotary glass plates - 1920

on duchamp:
- marcel duchamp - dialogues with marcel duchamp - da capo press - 1971/1987
- marcel duchamp - the writings of marcel duchamp - da capo press - 1973/1989
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp - the museum of modern art/philadelphia museum of art/prestel verlag - 1973/1989
- marcel duchamp - the box in a valise de ou par marcel duchamp ou rrose selavy - rizzoli - 1989
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: work and life - the mit press 1993
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: a biography - henry holt - 1996
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp rencontre - centre georges pompidou - 1997
- marcel duchamp - duchamp: love and death, even - reaktion books - 1998
- marcel duchamp - duchamp in context: science and technology in the large glass and related works - princeton university press - 1998
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: the art of making art in the age of mechanical reproduction - harry n. abrams - 1999
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: à l'infinitif - the typosophic society - 1999
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: respirateur - staatliches museum schwerin/hatje cantz verlag - 1999
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp - thames & hudson - 1999
- marcel duchamp - affectionately, marcel: the selected correspondence of marcel duchamp - ludion press - 2000
- marcel duchamp - the complete works of marcel duchamp - delano greenidge - 2000
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: étant donnés - yale univ. press - 2009
- marcel duchamp - marcel duchamp: étant donnés - manual of instructions, revised edition - yale univ. press - 2009