Machines in between:
Public Humanities never sounded so good.

Modern Art is proud to present our latest collaborative project: Machines in Between, an audio-visual experiment that reimagines our present state of technological saturation. Comprised of a genre-bending podcast and the experience of The Vinyl Church at Modern Art, Machines in Between is pushing public discourse around our concepts of religion and technology.

Machines in between:
AUDIO SERIES

Featuring an eclectic and world-renowned cast of scholars, musicians, filmmakers, and artists, Machines in Between is an episodic wild ride through a fun-house of samples, science-fiction, and searing social critique. Hosts John and Libby Modern guide the listener through a scintillating sonic landscape—an accumulation of bent stories, surprising cultural analysis, historical reflection, lush soundscapes, and beats sampled from obscure religious records. Along the way John and Libby negotiate their own relationship and their own sense of reality as they confront the creeping influence of the world’s leading tech-wellness group, Infinity 88, and its mysterious CEO Kelvin Trinsel.

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.

MACHINES IN BETWEEN:
The Vinyl Church

From November 2022- May 2023, Modern Art will be transformed into the VINYL CHURCH—an interactive installation inviting visitors to witness and experience the materiality of spirit through machines.

All are welcome to enter the studio, its walls covered in hundreds of vinyl records chosen for their insistence upon another world; chosen for their intensities, desperate demands, and surplus of feeling; chosen for their longing, for their standing awestruck and bending harmonies. Visitors may select the records that speak to them to play on the turntable, to take a seat, and to hear, see and experience the cardboard and grooved vinyl, the tubes, belts, circuitry and wood in the middle of the room, the wires hidden from site, the cones and the electrostatic panels—the portals to the other worlds of heaven, UFOs, and talking spirits, of chakras and healing energies, and collective effervescence.

The Vinyl Church will also be home to Machines in Between programming. Spanning a vast array of genres, including live music, spoken word, public lectures and experimental performances, keep an eye on our calendar for dates and times.