The project Signatures Exchanged for Passwords by Donna Rumble-Smith takes a nostalgic look at the waning use of handwriting in the digital age and the loss of intimacy and emotion that accompanies the use of digital text over the handwritten word. Her project was showcased at Talent 2009 in Eindhoven and featured on design.nl.
On Saturday at Paradiso, the symposium 'me you and everyone we know is a curator' will explore the issue of quality in a time of visual abundance, in a search "for new quality criteria, new frames of references, and alternative methods for enabling connections between the virtual and the physical space of today's culture." I'll be in attendance to write about some of the lectures. More to come...