In late August & September of 2009, artSpa completed an energy assessment of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, produced in partnership with Machine Project, to help kick off a year-long engagement between the two institutions. The assessment employed several artist-intuitives, -psychics, -ghosthunters, and -psychonauts in order to energetically map the Hammer, and to provide suggestions for improving its energetic interface for visitors, spirits, and museum administrators.

As with all artSpa events and programs, the contributors to this project are wonderful, accomplished, experimental artists and performers, who are also engaged in some form of healing-, psychic-, and/or shamanic-practice – some as "professionals," some as "dabblers," and others somewhere in between.

What likely underlies each of these artist-intuitives' dual-practices is a willingness to experiment with the most basic elements of thought, belief and sensation, and their capacity to both challenge and embrace the outcomes of their study. They are sublime investigators of purpose, presence, and practice, and through their toil they present us with yet another perspective, likely fantastic, and possibly real.

The following assessements are presented as a series of playful but serious documents that genuinely reflect the experiences of the artists involved. It is with the utmost sincerity that we offer these insights to the staff and visitors of the Hammer and Machine Project as they embark upon their journey together in what we all hope will be a warm and fruitful partnership.