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[The User] is a contemporary art collective 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.

[The User] est un collectif d’artistes composé de l’architecte et artiste d’installations Thomas McIntosh et du compositeur et artiste du son Emmanuel Madan. Les projets du duo imaginent de nouvelles relations entre systèmes à forte composante technologique, culture et expérience humaine.

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Quartet for dot matrix printers

Installation for four dot matrix printers and personal computers, ASCII text compositions, network server, microphones, miniature video cameras, video projectors, sound system and office furniture.
Transposition of the Symphony for dot matrix printers project to a gallery installation context. Four printers are displayed under glass, on museum plinths arranged in a square, one plinth at each corner. Each printer is equipped with microphones and miniature video cameras. The gallery visitor, sitting in an office chair at the centre of the installation, is immersed in a junk-aesthetic audiovisual environment orchestrated entirely from the composed texts that the printers reproduce
Quartet for dot matrix printer brings the Symphony for dot matrix printers project to its ultimate conclusion. Not only are the technologies obsolete but so are the people, rendered redundant in a totally automated environment, a performance without performers.

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21.05.2010 | The User's blog

Cat. : aotm ARTIST, ARTWORK

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