Wilderness Puppets CD-ROM "wildernessPuppets" is a work of idiomorphic software. It is a 'compiler' for the accumulation, arrangement and display of short interactive visual works. These works obsessively stage and re-stage the performance of the interface with its tokens of encounter and exchange (deployed as virtual objects, "puppets"), in an leaky economy of control, that circulate between the interactor and the machine. New works are occasionally added to this compilation-in-progress (or older ones deleted). It is an ongoing project.

Bio
Barbara Lattanzi is a media artist whose work includes individual, collaborative and curatorial projects. Recent exhibitions include the screening of her early film work as part of the Museum of Modern Art series "Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films", videos screened at Antioch College, and digital multimedia exhibited on-line as part of the Nomads web-space, "Massage". Her most recent work focuses on the human-machine interface as the basis for a mercurial poetics. Recent projects include Pirate Radio Muzak, in collaboration with the brief Buffalo, NY collective, E.M.M.A., and Lattanzi’s ongoing CD-ROM collection of idiomorphic software, wildernessPuppets. Lattanzi currently teaches Computer-Mediated Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison.