The Museum of Funny Ladies, A Museumette
World Maker Faire 2017
MAKER
Angela Perrone
Angela is an Experience Designer who likes to bring narratives to life through the magic of making. Her background is in interactive technology, comedy, writing, and Japanese. And in her free time, she is a poodle photographer.
The Museum of Funny Ladies, a Museumette, is an interactive exhibit that immerses visitors into the story of pioneer women comedy writers of the 1970s.
What inspired you to make this project?:
Being a comedian myself, the story of women comedy is very close to my heart. These women pioneers paved this path for me and all women to be able to perform on stage and behind the scenes. And although women comedians have made huge strides, not much has changed in the writers room since the 1970s. This project aims to shed light on this piece of the greater history of women in comedy, shatter the age-old stereotype that “women aren’t funny,” and perhaps add to this path of progress that these women comedy pioneers started down so many decades ago that have allowed more women to do their funny thing. This was my thesis project for graduate school. I wanted this to represent a culmination of all of my skills gathered during my time as a graduate student at ITP, combining my knowledge of arduino, projection mapping, fabrication, narrative, hacking and making.
