Design and Art Australia Online

Puppet Motel consists of over 30 'rooms’, interactive vignettes populated with Anderson’s stories, songs, imagery, videos and much more, beautifully crafted into an immersive environment by Hsin-Chien Huang.
No instructions are given within each of the rooms, instead the audience must explore the environment to discover hidden clues and audio visual elements – this is no simple point and click operation, the visitor is required to use the gamut of mouse and keyboard interaction, lingering over screen elements to hear stories or repeatedly trying to pull the electric plug out of the wall in the television room.
Plug sockets feature extensively throughout the piece, completing tasks in some rooms may reveal a glowing socket – a conduit to other rooms within the motel and back to the Hall of Time’ which opens the piece and from which most of the rooms are accessible …