ELECTRIC PUPPET: Young people animate their own ideas

DELIVERED | FED SQUARE AND ROBOTRONICA

An interactive character-making experience that moves from digital collage to live animation through the participant’s own body.

The Public Opportunity

Electric Puppet gives families a direct role as makers. Federation Square commissioned the original format, and QUT's 2017 Robotronica programme documents a drop-in presentation where visitors designed and animated digital robots.

The Experience

Participants assemble a character from a library of body-part images, then move to animate it through real-time tracking. Personalisation creates a recognisable connection between the person, the character and the public screen.

What Is Documented

QUT's Robotronica programme documents the interaction and drop-in format. Wonderment Walk also records a commissioned 2014 adaptation involving John Olsen's Frogs sculpture. Different versions are kept distinct rather than assigned a single launch year.

Source: QUT Robotronica 2017 programme; Wonderment Walk launch record; artist event portfolio.

Evidence: QUT Robotronica 2017 programme; Wonderment Walk launch record; artist event portfolio. Full source notes accompany this collection.