Puppets in Education explores the many forms the of the practice of animating the inanimate. Our relationship with puppets goes back both through our earliest memories and our human history. From the earliest dolls to the most complex marionettes, from the classroom curriculum to television programming, from animating an object to the digital armatures of virtual reality, we find our gestures and expression channeled through puppets. The Puppets in Education video shares design insights and questions connected to archive, string, parade, printed, virtual, and artificial puppetry.
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Puppet Archives
Lucius Von Joo shares about the puppet archives and exhibit design
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Printed Puppet
Emmy Semprun talks through the process of recreating a one hundred year old Czech marionette.
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Stringed Puppets
Chris Moffett thinks through the mechanics of stringing marionettes
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AI Puppetry
Kevin Klein-Cardena shares the process of working through the creation of an AI scripted and performed puppet show
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Pixel Puppetry
Danielle Tulchinsky shares the design and physics of puppetry in the virtual reality environment
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Parade Puppets
Chris Moffett talks through the design and yearly celebration of the Three Kings with El Museo
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Parade Puppets Artist Interview
Chris Moffett and Polina Porrass talk through the design and history of the El Museo's Three Kings puppets which lead the parade and celebration every year through the streets of East Harlem.