A collection of 9 media-artists:
lia - dextro - skot - mvd - maia_notdef./ - [n:ja] - Norbert Pfaffenbichler - Timo Novotny

Miklós Beyer, in World Wide Video Festival Catalogue, Amsterdam:
What do you do when the information page of the game you are about to play tells you that there are no winners and losers, no high scores, no monsters, no time limit and no fights? The idea with this game is that you start playing and then just see what happens. A lot then depends on the attractions of your voyage of discovery and the entertainment value of the quest for a possible meaning. This meaning is nowhere hinted at by the game's devisers, and the same applies to the other five contributions on '../karoushi'. It is a CD-Rom without a beginning or end, made, it appears, as promotional material for six artists, designers who are particularly reluctant to give an unambiguous meaning to their work. Every imaginable meaning is suggested and you as the user are left entirely to your fate. This is no problem, for it can actually be very nice to step into an environment where you can interpret the content entirely to suit yourself even though the form has been preset.[...]