Machines in Between

Machines in Between is an audio-visual experiment that reimagines our present state of technological saturation. It is part mixtape, surreal performance, and philosophical experiment. Featuring a series of audio episodes and the immersive experience of The Vinyl Church, Machines in Between asks you to hear, see, think, and be differently with your machine divinities. Join our eclectic and world-renowned cast of scholars, musicians, filmmakers, and artists on a wild ride through a fun-house of samples, science-fiction, and searing social critique

Machines in Between is a year-long collaboration between artists and philosophers, historians and DJ’s, musicians and poets, biologists, sound engineers, dancers, conservationists. Together, we linger over a simple insight into the increasing entanglement between humans and machines. What is to be done as this entanglement intensifies in strange and familiar ways? 

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Our interest in the present technological moment, however, is not one of mere scholarly abstraction. On the contrary, we acknowledge from the beginning that questions concerning technology are questions of living and dying that play out everyday—in the joys and sublime trials, in the triumphs and in the inequities that a head-long rush into a techno-future foster and perpetually incentivize. 

Indeed, how does one respond to this revelation, the categorical slippage between humans and machines? What to make of this slippage in the everyday world of gigging in the digital economy? What happens when our machines become more god-like, and more invisible, than our imaginations of transcendence, omniscience, and ultimate order can handle?

Machines in Between is generously funded through a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation with additional support from Franklin & Marshall’s Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster.