2017
Living Traces exhibition
Held in partnership with UTS Library during
National Science Week,
Living Traces was an exhibition that celebrated
the hidden and unnoticed traces that are left behind after humans interact with
books. By visualising and investigating these unseen elements of human
interaction, this exhibition drew attention to the ways objects change through
use.
Mimicking processes from the project
An Index
of Bacteria, micro-organisms found on UTS Library books were
cultivated in collaboration with UTS Library curatorial staff.
Students and staff from across the university were asked to swab books that
were being borrowed and returned. The resulting installation was a unique
visualisation of bacteria across the Dewey Decimal cataloguing system utilised
globally by libraries.