As our society and culture grows increasingly reliant on technology, the specific underlying technologies grow ever more complicated. Hands-on "how to" knowledge feels increasingly remote and arcane, and many artists feel forced to rely on whatever tools or services they can afford to purchase. In low-income communities, this means that technology-based culture often seems completely out of reach of the individual artist.

Machine Project provides educational resources to artists working with technology; to educate and collaborate with artists to produce site-specific, non-commercial work; and 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.

Machine Project incorporated as a non-profit in the state of California on May 17, 2005 and received our Federal EIN # (75-3193159) on June 13, 2005.