Botborg has occasionally received critique for their work, some of which is replicated here.

Quotes

Botborg’s work is aggressively complex and occasionally frightening… Botborg’s images seem to erupt and spasm viciously, as if attempting in confusion to exit the screen and drench or absorb the audience.
Joel Stern, RealTime

… a brutal audio-visual barrage, erratic as it is blinding and deafening. In effect it’s something like a rainbow in a blender [or] screaming television static. This is art that has no pretensions to prettiness or even intelligibility.
Fiona Hogg, The Program

… a sinister experiment upon the viewer by evil scientists too obsessed with feverishly pursued and unfathomable ends to spare a thought for such trifles as the moral consequences of their work, or the mental and physical well-being of their subjects… Recommended for noise fetishists everywhere.
Paul Condon, Foxy Digitalis

… a brutal assault of video and audio feedback that bordered on the unethical.
Greg Hooper, RealTime

Botborg blew me away at the 2006 NOW now festival in Sydney. Their relentless AV assault drew hundreds of people to the room, and transfixed them. Shitcore fans and mothers alike.
Clare Cooper, NOW now Festival

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