pop deluxe and the saam are very good art-o-mat® venues. you visited some of our best. thanks a bunch!

so, maybe my posting tapped on my pov about the american trends of business and how art can fit into those trends. that can be very complicated..kinda like battling windmills.

in this day and age, buying something made by someone they can contact…in my opinion…is worth the price of admission.

anyway, we need a host in the uk (as we lost our host in upper warlingham a few years ago). more so…we need uk artists to keep our venues stocked. dc and vegas are putting us to the test. it is a great opportunity for any “living” artist to get their work out there.

fyi..i dig your blog.

c.w.

Thank you for the comment and I am sorry that I got the wrong Carolina! This was not the fault of the speaker at the conference but just my mistake – I will make sure to correct it.

The conference that I was attending was the Mid-America American Studies Association Conference held in the University of Wisconsin, Madison called ‘The life of the object: an experimental workshop and conference on Production, Consumption and Creative Re-use in American Culture’. The speaker was Jennifer Scott, a grad student from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington who mentioned your art project and let me know the location of the Madison unit.

Later on during my trip in US I saw another one in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, outside the ‘Great Americans’ gallery.

I am happy with my piece of art and enjoyed the experience of using a vending machine for a different purpose. The opening of the box and seeing what is inside is similar to the old experience of buying cigarettes – but without the negative health effects!

Thanks again and hope the project continues to prosper.

Stephen

thanks for visiting our machine and posting your experience.

just wanted to convey that we are from north carolina…not south carolina. there is a difference.

anyway, i hope that you are enjoying your art by rebecca sexton larson…even though you originally wanted corey hengen. basically, what you encountered reflects that the art-o-mat project is living/breathing and artists create their works in editions. we do want people to be happy. but, things can sell out and never be made again.

this does go against the grain of contemporary business practices. hopefully it makes the experience more special.

do you mind sharing what speaker and conference your referenced in your posting? it seems that may not have the facts.

clark whittington