Starting in 2022-2023, I began to develop a portable environment for hybrid digital/physical puppetry. This platform is a site for the confluence of mechanical and robotic puppets, generative animation and visual environments with built in video projection surfaces, interactive media, and live electroacoustic music. The first performance using this environment (seen here) was realized in July 2023 as a part of the Schneider Museum of Art’s 2023 Art Beyond and was the beginning, not the end, of the development of this work. I intend to create an ongoing series of live mixed-reality performances and installations incorporating this artistic and technological ecosystem over the next several years. This work has been supported, in part, by a Fulbright Scholar award which allowed me to partake in an extended artist residency at the Center for Digital Narrative in Bergen, Norway during Fall 2024.