Sheet Music explores the potential of electrically conductive inks to transform a piece of graphic design into an electronic device. Printed with silver ink these two posters work as aerials, picking up variations in the room’s electromagnetic field caused by gallery visitors. Electronics enclosed in the wall convert these variations to sound, allowing participants to ‘play’ the posters by moving their hands in front of them.
The project explores the capacity for technology to extend the conventional role of graphic design into a new hybrid ‘digital materiality’, with the posters operating as printed visual communication, electronic object, sonic production and performative experience.
