LOT-EK
MIXER

a steel cement mixer is retrofitted as 21st century media cocoon

completed

2000

location

exhibited at Henry Urbach Architecture in Chelsea

client

conceived with Henry Urbach Architecture gallery

collaborators

John Hartman, project lead

fabrication

UAF / Marc Ganzglass

photography

Paul Warchol

collection

Guggenheim Museum

awards

concept & vision

MIXER transforms a steel cement mixer into a 21st century media cocoon suitable for lounging, viewing, and dreaming

design & architecture

fitted with 12” monitors connected to a variety of audio/video inputs - surveillance cameras, satellite TV, DVD player, Play station2 - and lined with a memory foam soft interior, Mixer offers a plush, intimate environment animated by multiple forms of information and media

program & use

we keep its rotating feature as Mixer still pivots on its central axis to allow perception of the space around it from within. In the spirit of a DJ mixing booth, Mixer offers a space for one or few people to select, sample, and mix a variety of sounds and imagery to suit individual fantasies

impact & significance

from the road spinning concrete, to an art space, an ordinary mixer revisited for a shared communal experience of technology - real, virtual, desired, imagined

Dec 12, 2025

WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND

WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND