Up Against the Screen Mother Fuckers

"Katko's video exists at the very borders of what might be called 'electronic literature' in the way a Dada cut-up or, worse, the final silences of Guy Debord and the Situationist Internationale exists on the edge of literature—visible there on the precipice before falling off, but never entirely gone. 'Up Against the Screen' is a call for the destruction of screens and their power to buttress societal control, and was created involuntarily during the attempt to instantiate the power of those very screens, in this case the 3D simulations of the Cave environment. Abrasive, abstract, even annoying, its rainbow cones are in fact digital letterforms broken to their core components of pixel/vertex and color. The protagonist who stares numbly into one of the Cave screens implicates the viewer as a drone hypnotized before our never-arriving future." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2