Richie Allen is a 37-year-old artist and engineer who's playful approach to interactive works cleverly masks his subconsciously political agenda. Since 2000 “Richie's Electric Playground” has taken a curiously harmonious orchestra of novel electronic musical instruments (including the “Screatures” musical puppets) on a solar powered jamming roadshow around the world. Other interactive sculptures include the jokingly antagonistic “Cro-NullaNulla Man 1”, “The Great Wall” musical toy display for Big Day Out 2006, “War On” a physical video game interface presented at Electrofringe and SOOB 2004, “Chi Chi Fibonacci's” electric hermaphrodite suit, and the “Hypnonoodle” audio visual instrument for which he won the I-Give award for “Best Sound Toy” in 2004. Key collaborators include Rene Wooler, Matt Petoe, the JamExperimentDanceInteract crew, composer James Hullick, and Mekanarky Studios. Richie has worked on several JOLT productions including: CRANKY ROBOTICS and THE NIS.