DEPARTMENT OF INEFFICIENCY DEPARTMENT

we imagined a fictionalized office and stepped into role as the three last employees of that office the week it was being shut down. we were together in physical office space in the financial district of NYC/Lenapehoking and streamed live into a virtual 3D space created in three.js, which had three raw live-feed videos triangulated, three live security-feed videos in black and white, two recorded informational videos on DOID and the office closure, several office furniture and materials as 3D assets spinning around the world, and the skybox was an alternating 360 video (for our meetings at the beginning and end of each day) and composite video of all our feeds (being distorted and colorized using audiovideo reactivity in Max/MSP in response to an office soundscape we created). the skybox video broke down more and more as the servers malfunctioned further and further throughout the course of the week. within the fiction, we imagined online participant audiences as former employees (sometimes disgruntled) sending in their incomplete work after a stint of massive layoffs. they would input “support tickets” and “employee reviews” into Mad Libs-styled prompts on the website, and we would generally set out to respond in real-time. the three performers also started the workday with 30 tasks each, which we’d pick from a hat at the morning meeting and set out to complete throughout the day (and was essentially a repurposing of John Cage’s Chance Protocols). throughout, the course of the 40-hour week, 8 hours each day from 11am-7pm, play became the game of endurance.