How to Send Passersby Junk Mail from the Future, by the Extrapolation Factory
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Our friends at the Extrapolation Factory are pleased to present their latest project, “Junk Mail Machine,” which they recently developed during a week-long residency at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Lower Manhattan. As with their previously-seen project 99¢ Futures,” the participatory installation is an exercise in “imagining and visualizing diverse futures for New York City’s commerce, through the eyes of individuals.” Thus, the Junk Mail Machine is “an experimental futuring prototype which prompts visitors to envision new and augmented needs, as well as the businesses/services that might arise in response.”
Elliott P. Montgomery and Chris Woebken share the story behind the project.
We put together the Junk Mail Machine proposal for the Storefront for Art and Architecture‘s residency call for their ‘BEING’ exhibition, and were surprised to be selected as their first residents. On Tuesday, October 15th, we squeezed our Brooklyn studio into a narrow, 60 sq. ft. corner of Storefront’s energetic, open-air space. Over the course of five days in the Storefront, we developed the mechanics of the Junk Mail Machine experiment, with the pivoting walls opened to the multisensory backdrop of car horns, cigarette smoke and boisterous pedestrian conversation.
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