Project Government Puppet, 2023
Recess Art and the School for Poetic ComputationDirector/Puppeteer
An experiment around puppetry, participation, and data collection. What if the government conscripted the members of the Puppeteers Guild of America to become the new Google Maps Prius, but for data mining? Walking puppets around society, with cameras for heads and cameras for hands and cameras for feet!
What does an audience consent to share, and what can be taken without it? Part of the final showcase of the School for Poetic Computation’s Experiments in Networked Performance summer cohort.
Web design and camera puppetry: Amad Ansari
Video processing and design: Noura Zekry and L.g. Schulman
Remote performance: Nina Zhong
Photos by Minu Han.