Automaton Chess Player

[Dave Monroe]

Something that might be of interest ...

Sussman, Mark.  "Performing the Intelligent Machine:
   Deception and Enchantment in the Life of the
   Automaton Chess Player."  Puppets, Masks, and
   Performing Objects.  Ed. John Bell.  Cambridge,
   MA: MIT Pres, 2001.

The book is a reprint, apparently, of a special issue
of The Drama Review (Vol. 43, No. 3 [Fall, 1999]). 
And if you're anywhere near the Third Coast ca. June
14th - 24th ...

http://www.cityofchicago.org/SpecialEvents/Puppetropolis.html

Coincides with the Julie Taymor (Titus Andronicus, The
Lion King on Broadway) exhibit at the Field Museum ...

http://www.fmnh.org/exhibits/taymor_tempexhib.htm

By the way, anybody ever see that puppet movie about
the Marquis de Sade, Marquis?  They blew it there. 
Should have used sock puppets, called it, The Marquis
de Sock ...







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