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Hi. We’re Lindsay and Molly from the Mattress Factory.
Located in the Mexican War
Streets on the North Side
The Mattress Factory is a
research and development lab
for artists
Site-specific installations
Usually temporary
We’re one of the first and only
installation museums in the world
What is the Mattress Factory?
Q: So what’s the problem?A: Documenting and sharing installation art is challenging
How would you know that inside this box…
Based on this image…
…and this view?
…and this view at different times?
Or that this…
looks like this from the floor below?
How do we show that both of these pieces are in the same spot, 17 years apart?
1993 2010
In process photo of Sarah Oppenheimer?
How do we share the stories of the creation process?
Or the experience of being in an installation?
…we were a theater.
How do we share the stories of the years when…
Or when the building next to the Mattress Factorycaught fire…
And in 1993 artist Winifred Lutz turned it into “The Garden”
…or that people get married in “The Garden”?
…or that Performance Art occurs in the garden?
…or that Rolf Julius sound art plays in the garden?
How do we share that the Mattress Factory was once….
…a vegetarian food co-op?
…the 1414 gallery building was a bar?
Or that back in the day…
• Images of eastern eu show
Or that artist’s intention…
…involves a time-dependent process of decay?
p{art}ticipate: An Active Archive
We need solutions that help us share the sense of experiencethat is paramount to installation art with the world…
The MF + Deeplocal are currently building & refininga relational database using open source collections software
We want it to connect data about…
Exhibitions Museum History
Artists
Staff
Visitors
Web Surfer
Researchers
Web Developers
Museum Founders Critics
Scholar
13,000 STILL PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES 300
VIDEO TAPES (INCLUDING 3/4" ANALOG
TAPES, BETA TAPES, VHS TAPES, AND
MINI-DV CASSETTES); 500 CDS AND
AUDIO TAPES; 90 LINEAR FEET OF PAPER
FILE FOLDERS WITH LETTERS, FAXES,
RELATED PRINTED MATERIAL, AND
DRAWINGS; 100 BOXES OF FLAT
MATERIAL; 1,000 DRAWINGS, ARTISTS’
PRINTS AND INSTALLATION-RELATED
MATERIALS; AND 763 THREE-
DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS RELATED TO
TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS.
We are digitizing data left and right
…with the help of archivist assistant Lucy T. Jones, mummy lover.(Supported by the Google Community Grants Fund. Thank you.)
…when she’s not licking bones, she breaking stuff in the archives office.
An ideal interface would be
physical and digital.
The interface can be simple or complex.
Idea 2: Window into the past
Idea 1: Elevator showcase
We want the world to share their insights with us.
Lindsay O’LearyActive Archive Project Manageremail: [email protected]: @MattressFactory
Molly TigheArchivistemail: [email protected]