Matthew Blum

Galleries

The Blum Museum of Art & Machinery

A continually expanding institution of images, objects, circuits, and questionable ideas.

Guided tour Five-Minute Tour

Stop 4 of 5 · Machine Room

Light Table

Exhibited in Armature for Aperture (2024).

Room 03

Machine Room

LED installations, electronics, and computers that still boot.

  1. Light Table. A square table with a wooden rim and white metal frame, its glowing top scattered with soft spots of purple and yellow light.

Study collection: The computer collection

Each machine is kept running and set to portray a particular moment. They hang in order of that date.

  1. Kenbak-1, 1971. Kenbak Corporation. Study collection.
  2. Altair-Duino, 1975. Adwater & Stir. Study collection.
  3. TI-99/4A, 1981. Texas Instruments. Study collection.
  4. Commodore 64, 1982. Commodore Business Machines. Study collection.
  5. Atari 800XL, 1983. Atari. Study collection.
  6. Tandy TRS-80 CoCo2, 1983. Tandy / Radio Shack. Study collection.
  7. Apple IIe, 1983. Apple Computer. Study collection.
  8. IBM 5150, 1981. IBM. Interpreted as March 1983. Study collection.
  9. Tandy TRS-80 Model 4, 1983. Radio Shack. Study collection.
  10. COMPAQ Portable, 1983. Compaq Computer Corporation. Interpreted as 1988. Study collection.
  11. IBM 5162 286 XT, 1986. IBM. Interpreted as November 1991. Study collection.
  12. Tandy Sensation II, 1993. Tandy Corporation. Interpreted as November 1994. Study collection.
  13. Hyperdata 486. Hyperdata Technology. Interpreted as August 24, 1995. Study collection.
  14. K7SOM. Interpreted as June 2000. Study collection.
  15. Apple Macintosh G4, 2003. Apple Computer. Interpreted as June 2005. Study collection.
  16. Dell C521, 2006. Dell. Study collection.
  17. Apple Macintosh Pro 3,1, 2008. Apple Inc.. Study collection.
  18. Nextec. Study collection.