Puppets: Hard-wired to the human brain?

Workshop Presenter:

Robert Smythe

Description:

Puppets are one of the world's oldest performance arts, and new discoveries into how the human brain works promise to explain how and why puppets have fascinated humans for thousands of years. Fields such as robotics and cognitive development can learn a lot from what puppeteers have always known: Robert Smythe explains the current thinking for you.

Materials fee: None
Date/Time: Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Max. # Participants: Unlimited

Bio of Workshop Presenter:

Robert Smythe has won four Barrymore Awards and three UNIMA Citations, and prestigious fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, among others. He is currently researching the psychology of puppetry at Temple University's Cognitive Development Laboratory while working on his MFA in Playwrighting.