Computer Boy
Computer Boy is a puppet with a 12-inch LCD screen for a face. Sometimes he is alive, other times he’s the zombie we’d expect from fat DVD fed children.
Using contemporary performance, puppetry and machinima animation created within the real-time, 3D virtual environment of sandbox style games like Grand Theft Auto the artists discuss the anxieties surrounding our engagement with virtual worlds as well as the ironies of making a work that you cant get the rights to.
With an original score made with video game consoles by renowned electronic composer DJ TR!P Computer Boy is a sensationalised popular media story about the cult of youth degeneracy.
24 – 26 May, 2012
Performance Space,
Track 8 – Carriageworks
Sydney, NSW
Created by Martyn Coutts, Sam Routledge and Willoh S.Weiland with original score by DJ TR!P
Original Concept & Puppetry: Sam Routledge
Video: Martyn Coutts
Text: Willoh S.Weiland
Construction: Bryony Anderson
