Puppet Motel

by Laurie Anderson

An intimate and completely original performance piece, Puppet Motel invites you to interact directly with the art and intelligence of Laurie Anderson. Familiar yet loaded imagery--telephones, fax machines, TVs, typewriters, and a glowing, howling electrical outlet--connect you to over an hour of Anderson's music, excerpts from the "Nerve Bible" and other strange side trips of America's premier performance artist. System Mac with 640x480+ (13" or larger) color display; 5,500KB free RAM; CD-ROM drive.

CD-ROM

Published October 15, 1998

About the author

Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman," reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film, Home of the Brave.

She has also invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a "tape-bow violin" that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a "talking stick", a six-foot long, batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.