

Wayang has been embraced by international artists and companies in order to tell idiosyncratic myths and celebrate the sacred and the ethereal. Much of the most interesting contemporary wayang work today is taking place along transnational axes. Some of these artists crossed traditional Indonesian puppets forms with other modes of practice to create complex hybrids. Many subsequently went to Java and Bali themselves for lengthy periods of wayang study and apprenticeship. A major influx of Indonesian puppetry came to the United States when a generation of budding American puppet artists received direct tuition from Indonesian puppet masters at California summer schools in the early 1970s. The 1960s ushered in a new era of intercultural communication. This initial encounter of Europe with wayang articulated a pattern of colonial exploitation: Asian products were alienated from their producers and transported to Europe stripped of direct connections to the people and conditions from which they arose. Edward Gordon Craig formulated his theories of the ūber-marionette with reference to wayang, while Richard Teschner adapted wayang puppets for his unique Viennese puppet theatre. The same impediments did not exist for colonial European artists. Traditional norms and values stood in the way of radical experimentation with the form of wayang until Indonesia's postcolonial era. In the results, we get accuracy above 90% for hand gesture recognition testing both median1 and median2. The last step is gesture recognition using template matching method consist of three templates including down, right, left direction. From the result, the threshold value by 25 is the best result because can be clustered left and right hand correctly. There is three distance for use in threshold testing of DBSCAN method.


The right and left hand will search about each median. The clustering method using DBSCAN (Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise) clustering, which can cluster automatically and efficiently than another method. Firstly, in-game need two hands to generate or move puppet so need clustering method for cluster right hand and left hand. The puppet game using hand gesture tracking and recognition for playing. The performance still using traditional method which person can play just expert and must be brought many puppets for performance. One of the popular game is puppet performance until now still available, especially in the sacred event. Indonesia has many cultures on each island including language, games, food, and another thing.
