LOT-EK
MIXER

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

completed

2000

exhibited at

Henry Urbach Architecture gallery

collection

Guggenheim Museum

collaborators

John Hartman, project lead

fabrication

UAF / Marc Ganzglass

photography

Paul Warchol

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