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 kind of zombie we’d expect from fat, DVD-fed children. Using contemporary performance, puppetry and machinima animation, Computer Boy is created within the 3D virtual environment of sandbox-style games like Grand Theft Auto,and evokes our culture’s anxiety about a younger generation’s increasing immersion in – and dependence on – virtual worlds. With an original score made with video game consoles by renowned electronic composer DJ TR!P, Computer Boy is a sensationalised popular media sto