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The applets at the wildernesspuppest.net website do not have an overall unifying theme. However, a number of the more recent applets serve as "demos" for performative re-editing of selected silent films. Interactivity as a form of presentation and projection takes montage "out of the closet" and makes the interpretive act of editing coincide with the moment of viewer reception. With applets such as "Startle," "The Letter and the Fly," "You Are Late" (and others), the viewer can re-animate selected segments of F.W.Murnau's 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Similar to Nosferatu's 'land of phantoms,' the computer interface is the structured absence that seems to know the viewer. It breathes its automaton being while itself lacking any life-blood. Here, across this interface, the viewer "interacts," as it is politely termed. In other words, she can now vampirize the representation that vampirizes her.