Installation for thirteen dot matrix printers, sound system, video projection and office furniture. Dimensions variable.

The Office Suite is an audio-visual installation conceived for a gallery space based on the artists’ earlier performance work entitled Symphony for dot matrix printers. In The Office Suite, the logic of obsolescence and automation has been applied not only to technology but also to people. The workers (i.e. performers) have been rendered completely redundant in a completely automated environment, a performance without performers.

[The User] is a contemporary art collective based In Montreal [Canada] and comprised of architect and installation artist Thomas McIntosh, and composer and sound artist Emmanuel Madan. The duo’s collaborative projects re-imagine relationships between technological systems, culture and human experience in striking ways.

Credits
Commissioned by the Wood Street Galleries, a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.