UTS: GALLERYLevel 4, 702 Harris St Ultimo NSW 2007 +61 2 9514 1652 | utsgallery@uts.edu.au Monday - Friday 12-6pm www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au

3 August - 3 September 2010, UTS GALLERY, SYDNEY

GRAPHIC MATERIAL

Graphic Material curator Aaron Seymour has done a stellar job of bringing together unexpected materials and hybrid practices across the 17 works in the exhibition. These range from innovative commercial design commissions - Mark Gowing’s ‘Hopscotch Neon’, now synonymous with art house cinema – to conceptual pieces such as Sabrina Raaf’s ‘Translator II, Grower’, a robotic drawing machine which creates blades of grass based on the CO2 levels in the room.

New takes on generative typography, rapid prototyping, laser cutting and 3d modeling are explored in works such as the ‘Paper Portrait of Mr Ivo Opstelten’ by Bert Simons and ‘Type and Form’ by Karsten Schmidt.

Originally from The Netherlands, Sydney-based duo Toko produced two large-scale data visualisations taking on potent themes such as wealth, happiness and ecological impact. ‘Inforgraphiti Rug: Ecological Footprint’ is both a clever pun and a strikingly beautiful handmade rug produced in collaboration with Designer Rugs.

The exhibition includes interactive works such as ‘Experiment’ - a purpose built room featuring an oversize kaleidoscope suspended from the ceiling by Gregory Anderson from Sydney design studio Trigger. Ian Stevenson and Aaron Seymour’s contribution includes ‘Sheet Music’ – two apparently simple graphic posters printed with silver conductive ink that can be ‘played’ by the viewer’s electromagnetic field to produce eerie space age sounds. Well-known local designer Vince Frost explored “taking a two dimensional idea and transforming it into a three dimensional space” by using stainless steel to hijack the now ubiquitous Facebook word ‘Poke’.

How are new technologies transforming graphic design? Graphic Material, currently on show at UTS Gallery, considers this question and discovers that freed from the constraints of ink on paper leading local and international practitioners are blurring the fields of design, art and technology.

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The largest work in the show is Jeremy Wood’s ‘Meridians’ - an 8.5m ‘GPS drawing’ created using navigation technology to inscribe a 71.12 km long ephemeral quote across London from Herman Melville’s tome Moby Dick.

Graphic Material rewards the viewer with an engaging exhibition on a number of levels – from the intricate ‘Snake Egg’ to the bold ‘Infographiti’. By presenting works that are both intellectually and aesthetically stimulating, the exhibition successfully reinvigorates our understanding of graphic design.

WHAT: GRAPHIC MATERIAL

WHEN: 3 AUGUST - 3 SEPTEMBER 2010

WHERE: UTS GALLERY, ULTIMO, SYDNEY

WHO: CURATED BY AARON SEYMOUR

WITH: JEREMY WOOD, JÜRG LEHNI, COLLIDER, TOKO, FROST*, TRIGGER, POSTSPECTACULAR, BERT SIMONS, MARK GOWING, SABRINA RAAF, AARON SEYMOUR, IAN STEVENSON and GRAPHIC THOUGHT FACILITY

UTS: GALLERYLevel 4, 702 Harris St Ultimo NSW 2007 +61 2 9514 1652 | utsgallery@uts.edu.au Monday - Friday 12-6pm www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au

UTS Gallery supported by Oyster Bay Wines and Coopers Brewery. Media Partner: 2ser

Supported by UTS School of Design, School of Communication Arts UWS, Formero, MCA, The Co-op Bookshop & Spicers Paper

Media contact:Holly Williamsholly.williams@uts.edu.au+61 2 9514 1652

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1. Ian Stevenson and Aaron Seymour, Sheet Music, 2010 (detail) 2. Sabrina Raaf, Translator II, Grower’ (documentation) 3. Frost*, Poke, 2010 4. Andrew Van Der Westhuyzen, Collider Snake Egg and Cabal — Tim’s Logbook 5. visitors ‘playing’ Sheet Music, 2010 6. Karsten Schmidt, Type and Form model and video. 7. Jeremy Wood Meridians GPS Drawing 2006 (detail) 8. Installation view from left: Toko, Mak-ing a point, Weakth Versus Happiness Infographiti, 2010 Toko, Inforgraphiti Rug: Ecological Footprint, 2010. 9.Installation view featuring Jürg Lehni’s Hektor Drawings in foreground 10. Gregory Anderson Experiment 2010 11. Mark Gowing Hopscotch Neon High res images available on request.

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