INCIDENTAL DATA

INCIDENTAL DATA

In a society where an infinite amount of information is available at the touch of a button, it can be tough knowing how to filter it all. Information might be infinite, but memory sure isn’t (very finite, in fact, in my case). Thankfully there are artists and designers out there to sort through some of the mess for us. Incidental Data, currently on show at UTS Gallery, explores the reams of information that result as by-products of other processes. The worn-down end of a lipstick that reveals so much about its owner; 200 years worth of toy gun patent applications that tell a pictorial story of technology and style; a drawing executed by a tree, charting the sway of its braches in the Cumbrian wind. Each of the works on display beg the question, “What kind of information do we ignore in our day-to-day lives?” Non-verbal, tactile, chance, and visual ‘data’ can often slip under our radar, filtered out in favour of the lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song, or the Dominos delivery number. The works in Incidental Data are diverse, at times playful and tongue-in-cheek, and at times opening a kind of Pandora’s Box, showing us the flow of visceral information is indeed limitless. Incidental Data reminds us what an incredible filter our brains are, and opens our eyes to the tangential information we sometimes ignore.

Until Sept 2, UTS Gallery, Level 4, 702 Harris Street, Ultimo, utsgallery.uts.edu.au/gallery

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