I'm Pennie Taylor and I've been working in art and museum education since 2007. I bring a background in anthropology to work on how people engage with art and objects. I've developed digital resources, interactive installations, and programs at museums including the ICA Boston, the MIT Museum, and the Rose Art Museum. I was a lecturer at Northeastern University’s College of Art, Media & Design.
Why the long face? game came to be at the 2014 Harvard metaLAB Beautiful Data workshop. The workshop, supported by the Getty Institute, asked us to envision new ways to engage with museum collections and open collections data. I thought it would be fun to make humans make the faces that humans made for animals, and to get to know a collection through your face. My prototype deck used photos I took at Harvard's Museum of Natural History.
I made a Hungarian Why the long face? deck, with faces from the Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum (Hungarian Natural History Museum) and Budapest Agricultural Museum, as artist-in-residence with Igor Metropol, Budapest, in spring 2015.
Why the long face? has been supported in 2014 and 2016 Mitchell Fellowship Awards, 2015 Somerville Arts Council Interrelated Media Grant, and 2017 Assets for Artists grant.
Why the long face? game came to be at the 2014 Harvard metaLAB Beautiful Data workshop. The workshop, supported by the Getty Institute, asked us to envision new ways to engage with museum collections and open collections data. I thought it would be fun to make humans make the faces that humans made for animals, and to get to know a collection through your face. My prototype deck used photos I took at Harvard's Museum of Natural History.
I made a Hungarian Why the long face? deck, with faces from the Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum (Hungarian Natural History Museum) and Budapest Agricultural Museum, as artist-in-residence with Igor Metropol, Budapest, in spring 2015.
Why the long face? has been supported in 2014 and 2016 Mitchell Fellowship Awards, 2015 Somerville Arts Council Interrelated Media Grant, and 2017 Assets for Artists grant.
A successful Kickstarter launched the first edition of the game in December, 2015.
I run this business & live with Bags & Jacob in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.