A Robot Made It, First is a MakeArt Kit by Rae Lanzerotti for the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, augmenting MCD’s community education and access programming. This MakeArt Kit asks visitors to reflect on the tactile work and delight of art, an iterative exchange with human makers and robotic fabricators. We recreate and describe assembled art objects in tactile and audible ways. Using dimensional materials, we create specific textures and shapes to reproduce artworks in a new, tactile form. Practicing sensory and image description of artworks expands how we relate to art and with each other. Iterative art— like a game of creative telephone started by human designers, fabricated by a robot, and then recreated by us— encourages curiosity and reflection about the process and purpose of making art.

Link to MCD@Home for the full instructions and thinking prompts: https://sfmcd.org/project/a-robot-made-it-first-with-rae-lanzerotti/

Commissioned for community access and education programming with the Museum of Craft and Design exhibition Mr. Roboto, 2024.