My father used to take me to the Design Museum in London when I was a child: he was a graphic designer and deeply passionate about typography and all other things design-related. I have fond memories of those visits.
When visiting The Boston Build Space a few weeks ago, I had the chance to meet with Madeline Gannon, who (it turns out) was working on an upcoming exhibit for the newly relocated Design Museum (it’s moving from Butlers Wharf to Kensington High Street, and Madeline’s exhibit will be one helping inaugurate the new space in an exhibition entitled “Fear and Love”).
Back in the day Madeline was an “artist in residence” on Pier 9, and worked closely with David Thomasson and the rest of OCTO’s Applied Research Lab there. I’ve followed her work since seeing this video of her “taming” an industrial robot:
Madeline’s latest project, Mimus, brings human traits to an otherwise imposing industrial machine. Anthromorphising robots – or at least
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