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Located in the Mexican War
Streets on the North Side
The Mattress Factory is a
research and development lab
for artists
Site-specific installations
Usually temporary
We’re one of the first and only
installation museums in the world
What is the Mattress Factory?
• Images of eastern eu show
Or that artist’s intention…
…involves a time-dependent process of decay?
We need solutions that help us share the sense of experiencethat is paramount to installation art with the world…
The MF + Deeplocal are currently building & refininga relational database using open source collections software
We want it to connect data about…
Exhibitions Museum History
Artists
Staff
Visitors
Web Surfer
Researchers
Web Developers
Museum Founders Critics
Scholar
13,000 STILL PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES 300
VIDEO TAPES (INCLUDING 3/4" ANALOG
TAPES, BETA TAPES, VHS TAPES, AND
MINI-DV CASSETTES); 500 CDS AND
AUDIO TAPES; 90 LINEAR FEET OF PAPER
FILE FOLDERS WITH LETTERS, FAXES,
RELATED PRINTED MATERIAL, AND
DRAWINGS; 100 BOXES OF FLAT
MATERIAL; 1,000 DRAWINGS, ARTISTS’
PRINTS AND INSTALLATION-RELATED
MATERIALS; AND 763 THREE-
DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS RELATED TO
TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS.
We are digitizing data left and right
…with the help of archivist assistant Lucy T. Jones, mummy lover.(Supported by the Google Community Grants Fund. Thank you.)
Lindsay O’LearyActive Archive Project Manageremail: [email protected]: @MattressFactory
Molly TigheArchivistemail: [email protected]