UVB-76 is a work of electronic literature that cannot fully exist without digital support. The text cannot be read passively: it must be executed. Without execution, there is no poem, even if the poem is already there. The reader must adjust, test, fail, and persist in order for meaning to emerge through a simulated transmission interface.

The work explores the fallacy of contemporary communication technologies, which promise connectivity but instead produce noise, saturation, and disconnection.

In this context, poetry ceases to be a matter of interpretation and becomes a struggle against interference. The problem is no longer what the text says, but whether it can be perceived.

As the experience progresses, the reader shifts from receiver to transmitter and sends their own message, which the system distorts and returns as if it were alien. The poem that seemed to belong to someone else is ultimately revealed as the reader’s own production.