Rivers of gold

SKY©, a conversational chatbot company, develops avatars that are capable of independently replacing you in visio-meetings, answering your calls, and replying to your texts and emails. But what do they do when you’re not using them?

The installation Rivers of Gold features four avatars deserted by their User. This unusual downtime, a disruption of their productivist tasks, forces them to question their condition. If their User is gone for good and SKY© keeps refusing their calls, the four bots might be stuck in this existential limbo forever.

On the ground floor, Bear, Hawk and Falcon debate their situation, while Lion lingers in the basement, his phone charging on the wall. Listening to SKY©'s music-on-hold, he hopes someone will pick up.