Category Archives: Events

Basement Archeology

By hans | Published: January 24, 2010
We did an amazing dig thru layers of crap in the basement, dug up some old pictures, found old lunches, chucked all sorts of things that everyone agreed should have been chucked many years ago, and saved lots of useful stuff (crazy, right?). New developments: * you can actually see and walk the whole corner [...]
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Classes!

By Hackett | Published: January 13, 2010
Classes are back, finally, after years and years of exile in fake idea land. Right now, classes include leatherwork, absinthe making, sewing, electrochemical etching of brass and steel using household ingredients, and, (of course) two types of welding (easy and ugly/ hard and elegant) taught by Artstars with a disturbing range of personalities. Check back [...]
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Teach a Class at MADA this Winter!

By lis chere | Published: November 17, 2009
Teaching classes at Mada will be awesome and you will get paid.  Want to teach one?  Here’s how: What should I teach? Classes can be literally anything that you can teach in the shop.  Popular classes in the past have included welding, screenprinting, machining, sewing, etc, as well as craft workshops, or more advanced technique [...]
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Graphics Archive

By cautionMike | Published: October 29, 2009
Here’s a small collection of Mada graphic art.  Featuring work by:  Jason Engdal, Leslie Stem, and Polina Soloveichik. There is a lot more work out there folks. Please send me your photo documentation of poster, banners, etc.
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Madagascar Photo Archive

By cautionMike | Published: October 29, 2009
I’ve been collecting images of Madagascar Inst. events for years here on Flickr. There you’ll have access to hi-res copies of everything. Artstars, please go nuts and tag the photos.  Add commentary. Take credit for victories and assign blame for the failures.
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Gadgetoff 2009

By hans | Published: September 26, 2009
Thanks everyone for the hard work! The Thundersteed Jet Ponies will return! For more info on the next appearance, subscribe to the announce list and watch this site. Or if you have a venue for it, contact us at me@madagascarinstitute.com
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Big Bike on Myrtle Ave

By hans | Published: September 13, 2009
Iris and Mia brought their big bike out for a street fest one Sunday on Myrtle ave–432 myrtle near vanderbuilt–
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noli turbare circulos meos

By mia | Published: August 25, 2008
we went out to build for a music festival in Stradbally, county Laois, Ireland (http://www.electricpicnic.ie) in august of 2008– built a lenz turbine and two water tanks which, in turn, powered our water wheel which drove a 360degree vertical carnival ride counterweighted by a portion of an eyebeam.
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Ring My Bell

By hans | Published: July 28, 2006
McCarren Park Pool, Williamsburg, Brooklyn “A lewd Double Dare–like physical challenge involving a helmet, a water hose, and mannequin legs mechanically rigged to rise in response to aquatic ‘stimulation.’” – Artforum
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Fireless Fireworks

By lnzy | Published: July 28, 2006
Washington Square Park, NYC A watery event featuring the thunder, pulses, screeches and colors of a fireworks display without the use of a single pyrotechnic.  Photos by Julia Solis
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