ARE YOU:
• A MERE DRONE in the ever-expanding DIGITAL WORKPLACE?
• FRUSTRATED by the RAPID PACE of CHANGE in a RADICALLY RESTRUCTURED WORLD?
• A PATHETIC SLAVE to a soulless NUMBER-CRUNCHING MONSTER?
• SHACKLED to a NEO-FASCIST data terminal?


HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO:
• HURL your beloved computer right out of a TENTH STORY WINDOW?
• REACH right into your screen and strangle a MISBEHAVING PROGRAM?

DO YOU:
• YEARN for release from an OBSESSIVE LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP with TECHNOLOGY?

Cathartic User Interface (CUI) is an interactive, multi-participant installation that allows users to quickly and effectively work through their conflicting emotions concerning the benevolent yet pernicious influences of computer technology on their lives. Users pitch mouselike balls at a wall covered with obsolete PC keyboards, triggering an array of multimedia projections and sounds dealing with the more troubling and problematic aspects of technology.. A ramp at the bottom returns the balls to the users for maximum cathartic effect.

C.U.I 2.0 (2000)
by Perry Hoberman
concept by Perry Hoberman and Nick Philip

C.U.I. 1.0 (1995)
by Perry Hoberman & Nick Philip

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© 2000 PERRY HOBERMAN