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[The User]

[The User]

Herkunft: 
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Type:
transmediale award nominee

[The User] is an art collective comprised of architect and artist Thomas McIntosh and composer and sound artist Emmanuel Madan. They attained wide international recognition for projects like Silophone and Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers, which re-imagine relationships between technological systems, culture and human experience in striking ways.

[The User] takes its name from a term employed by our technocratic society, especially in design-related fields such as engineering, architecture and software development.

>http://www.theuser.org/

Kollaboration mit: 
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Emmanuel Madan is a classically trained musician, composer and sound artist with a degree in based electroacoustic composition from the University of Montréal. Since 1998 Madan has been collaborating with Thomas McIntosh as [The User] making work that has been exhibited worldwide.

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Thomas McIntosh studied architecture at Carleton University, Ottawa and at the Technical University in Berlin. He was awarded internationally acclaimed prizes and grants. Since 1998 McIntosh has been collaborating with Emmanuel Madan as [The User] making work that has been exhibited worldwide.