The Machine in Line (visual reading group) with Ellie Wyatt
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The Machine in Line (visual reading group) with Ellie Wyatt

An informal visual reading group / workshop on diagrams and images of machines

By The Koppel Project

Date and time

Sat, 31 May 2025 14:00 - 16:00 GMT+1

Location

ANNEX By The Koppel Project

1 Tiverton Street London SE1 6NT United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

The Machine in Line is an informal visual reading group / workshop on diagrams and images of machines, taking place as part of Ellie Wyatt’s exhibition and book launch, A Box That Rolls Uphill.

Participants are invited to bring visual examples of diagrams that - however loosely - relate to ‘machines’ (these might include diagrams of scientific instruments, corporate strategies, bodily functions, speculative technologies, AI models, economic systems, imagined objects). Through discussions, drawing and collaborative mapping, we will take these examples as starting points to consider how diagrams construct and represent objects, systems, realities, problems and potentials, and work to create diagrammatic models of our own.

Participants are asked to bring:

  • at least one printed image of a diagram (but please bring as many as you like)
  • any other relevant materials you would like to share (books, articles, etc)
  • drawing, painting, cutting and writing tools (Ellie will be providing only basic materials)


The room has step-free access, for any other access questions please email Ellie at ellie.wyatt@network.rca.ac.uk.

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The Koppel Project

THE KOPPEL PROJECT

The Koppel Project (est. 2016) is an arts charity, gallery, and creative hub based in central London. We aim to support early and mid-career artists by offering affordable studio spaces. We also run KOPPEL venues, including both pop-up and long-term white-wall galleries, ideal for hosting exhibitions, innovative brands, and creative entrepreneurs' events and activities.

In addition to our studios, The Koppel Project exhibition and residency programme provides space, funding, and logistical support for staging projects and exhibitions by studio residents, guest artists, and curators. We collaborate with national and international artists, curators, and institutions from a range of disciplines to develop curatorial projects and thoughtful exhibitions that provoke dialogue and generate diversity in the art world. The mission of our programme is to stimulate transformative cultural exchange and extend knowledge and understanding across subjects. The Koppel Project is committed to exploring and sustaining innovative learning solutions through collaboration, hypothesising, experimenting, and ultimately helping to reinvent traditional learning systems.

We are grounded in the brokerage of space, repurposing abandoned buildings and actively aiding and fostering the growth and development of creative communities in London. As such, we are a nomadic organisation, moving from site to site as necessary and adapting creatively to each new set of challenges and opportunities. We have been based in buildings from Baker Street to Stoke Newington, and along the way, we have worked with over a thousand artists, curators, arts organisations, creative brands, charities, and other institutions.

We take great pride in our team's flexibility and creativity, as well as our passion for collaboration and the strong community we've developed over the last seven years.

The Koppel Project is currently based in the City of London, Borough of Camden, the West End, Mayfair, and Piccadilly, St. James'.