Up Against the Screen Mother Fuckers

Submitted by Joël Gauthier on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 12:08

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L'animation Up Against the Screen Mother Fuckers de Justin Katko est née d'une simulation ratée sur CAVE writing text editor. CAVE est un environnement virtuel de la grosseur d'une pièce ordinaire où un utilisateur peut s'immerger et manipuler différents éléments graphiques et/ou textuels projetés sur les murs. Lorsque Katko a essayé de visualiser son poème «Up Against the Screen Mother Fuckers» sur le simulateur CAVE writing text editor, une erreur s'est glissée dans le code et a donné lieu à un chaos de couleurs partant dans toutes les directions. L'artiste a décidé de conserver cette simulation ratée et de l'éditer en y ajoutant une trame sonore improvisée et une simple lecture du poème. Le poème appelle l'internaute à briser l'écran, à entrer dans une lutte anarchique contre les protocoles de l'image.

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UP AGAINST THE SCREEN MOTHER FUCKERS / we demand in a language / gaining clicks in a feedback / tube operated by / us on a spine / of ambivalent protocol / – not that it matters; / what matters is the fact / we demand / in a pattern of repetition / parallel to the frequency / of the very screen's flickering / – that's right, parallel / to the refresh rate / so the Mother Fuckers escape / through the reoccurring lapse / in attention paralleled / by the frequency of the gaps / in the signal; and the broom / the Mother Fuckers hold up / as the sign meaning they / rend the gaps, right / now as we're clicking, that / broom stick articulates a mark / up and markets the deficient / performance of your and my / impulsive functionality rendered / in scalar abundance / by our valuation of sleep / whose pillow / the Mother Fuckers / retroactively stuff / w/ the old Burger's cheeze. / Let's not rush the rack: / it's the discharge / afloat in the ambient / sponge of the toggle / that we need to splash / up with dessicating spit / from the vector whose temp / oral function well integrates / the infinite's brand / on the interval, till / our flagging never / stops ringing in the heads / of the Mother Fuckers at hand / Up Against the Screen, Mother Fuckers!

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«The poem is an abstract rendition of the rotten silk that fetters us people to these our awful screens. The graphics were generated in the CAVE writing text editor, by taking an ill-performing video screen capture of a spectral tube of "O"s in the editor's desktop preview mode. The audio was separately generated by improvisations into a Max/MSP patch. The title is after the late 60s anarchist affinity group, Up Against the Wall Mother Fuckers. I was inspired by their dramatic final exploit: cutting open the fences at Woodstock. The phrase Up Against the Screen Mother Fuckers started as the title for a CAVE piece, in which one thousand units of the people would enter the CAVE and break through its 4 screens to the vestibule holding the mirrors behind it. (...) Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.» (http://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/katko_up_against_the_screen.html)

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