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Mundane Traces Exhibition_
Date 7th November 2008
Tags event, national, exhibition, Sydney
Work by Ian Gwilt
Curator, Deborah Turnbull
Location: Olympic Tally Room, Building 10, Level 7, University of Technology Sydney
Dates: 26 November – 5 December 2008
Launch Date: Tuesday 25 November 2008 @ 6pm
The mundane-traces show is a collection of New Media artworks created by Ian Gwilt. Using innovative technologies to re-imagine the graphical user interface as a creative artefact the six individual works explore the graphic user interface in a creative context using augmented reality, rapid protoyping and laser cutting technologies. The result is an intriguing mix of physical and virtual interpretations of the folders, files and scrollbars from the everyday computer desktop.
These creative repositionings play with our understanding and expectations of the conventional computer orientated interface through variations in context, scale and media. The folders and files that occur in the exhibition space create complex layered readings that allude to both the original physical metaphor of the office desktop and the Graphical User Interface interpretation. Comments to a larger, cultural image ecology of these everyday symbols are facilitated through the digital, material constructs of a new, augmented reality artwork that uses mobile phone video facilities to place digital content in direct relation to material artefacts.
The Olympic Tally Room on Level 7 of UTS’s new Building 10 is a transient site. Due to be demolished at the close of 2008, it encompasses a planned obsolescence not dissimilar to the objects on display. The stripping of the site has already begun, leaving a starkness and absence that cradles these esoteric symbols of progress removed from their natural and virtual habitat for artistic contemplation and consumption.
