Hamlet Pop-Upper

Hamlet Pop-Upper works with two inherited forms: Hamlet's question and the popup's procedure for interrupting attention, requesting a decision, retaining a selection, and returning. Their contact becomes the material of the adaptation. Literary language enters an interface process; the interface acquires a dramatic role.

The work uses an in-page HTML dialog rather than a separate browser window. The fixed death score and the visitor's variable responses keep separate times inside that dialog. Each death is classified by the state it encounters, and the classification changes the line, position, and density of the trace left on the apparatus. A remembered answer therefore participates in later events as active state, while a deferral composes the interval in which an event may arrive.