She calls the announcement a bold move, even era-defining, the equivalent of the same museum's 1934 design exhibition Machine Art, when it shocked the public by displaying for the first time in a gallery space the simple self-adjusting ball bearing, as an emblem of the machine age.
They felt that the exhibition machine had a simpler director system, a different rotor with a smaller intake cone, and that the exhaust gas heat transfer system had not been implemented.
Then, in 1934, Johnson's department shook up the establishment again, with an exhibition called "Machine Art" — the first to present ball bearings, faucets, toasters, locks, dinnerware, and other machine-made artifacts purely as examples of design.
1962 (Sept) One-man exhibition of machine drawings (Salford City Art Gallery) claimed to be the world's first one-machine show.
It is precisely 52 years since the Museum of Modern Art presented a related exhibition called "Machine Art". (This was curated by Philip Johnson, then 28 years old). In 1968, the same museum mounted "The Machine as Seen at the End of the Machine Age," a display prompted more by the idiosyncratic vision of its guest curator, Pontus Hulten, than by any more objective ambition.
Items in the exhibition include machine gun bullets, original paintings and drawings, cap badges and historical photographs.
No fewer than seven of his cartoons were included in the seminal 1968 MoMA exhibition, The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age.
As far back as 1934, MoMA displayed ball bearings and propellers for an exhibition called "Machine Art".
Henri Mirguet writing for L'Aérophile magazine in January 1912, recalled the previous exhibition's machine as the "chief attraction" of the 1910 salon.
In the exhibition, a machine equipped with hammers (controlled by users) destroys a server, taking a little bit of the internet with it; text messages inked to paper are promptly shredded; and a "drawing machine" distorts data through electromagnetism.
In 2013, AION held a solo exhibition Eco-Machines in the Wroclaw Museum of Architecture in Poland.
