The FESTIVAL OF MIXOLOGY MAY 4-14 highlights artists combining music and audio with moving images and is made possible by a project grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

A Mechanical Medium, for Model B Kodascope16mm projector, stereo slide projector, 78 rpm hand cranked phonograph, Tri-Signal toy telegraph set, sine wave generator, pocket Theremin and other sound making machines. Thomas Edison spent the last ten years of his life attempting to build an apparatus to communicate with the dead; in his words, “a mechanical medium.” Though his device was never found, we will attempt, in the spirit of his enquiry, to do the impossible; to conjure up phantoms, to glimpse the hereafter.