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UTS Visual Communication
UTS Visual Communication



Hello World: Code and Design
Aaron Seymour
A direct response to the Coalition invasion of Iraq, The Sorrows Multiply employs experimental approaches to data visualisation to make apparent the magnitude and tragedy of this war. Situated below the ceiling of the gallery, thousands of paper squares are stacked in a custom-built mechanical device. 115,800 in total, they represent the most conservative estimate of civilian causalities in the conflict. Over the course of the exhibition they are mechanically pushed to the floor below. Blown around the gallery space, they build in number consuming the room in a violent and mesmeric snowstorm.

The Sorrows Multiply explores the power of design to evoke the innumerable scale of contemporary events through information visualisation strategies. The exhibition pushes the conventional display of information into new and more engaging territory. While aiming to convey contextualised data, The Sorrows Multiply also explores affective rather than didactic modes of presentation, and shifts from conventional graphic modes of print and screen display to environmental installation.

Data visualisation
information poetics


We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We also pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.