IN_SERVICE

A companion android who took the service-bot job to interact with a more varied clientele, a former governance A.I. that got too dreamy, and an explorer robot that decided to take a long break at the once lush urban park. These are the three non-human entities that will settle into the former ticket office for the second exhibition of Fair Play.

In the artistic intervention IN_SERVICE, Daniel Door investigates the figure of the ticket seller - as an example of service and customer service jobs - and the possible caring practices among their functions. He also imagines through science-fiction references how many of these functions have already been replaced by automated service systems since 1972 and how many still will be.

The three robots of IN_SERVICE have also been released from their former functions. Now they can only be perceived as an echo of what they were, namely as holographic chatbots with no one to chat with but themselves. In this obsolete state, they remind us of the building they now inhabit. And so, an echo of thoughts is spat out of the ticket office: the robots muse on work interaction, the heatwave endangering their mechanism, the influence that the anthroposphere imprints on the robots' perception of the world…