Today, I went to Hillerød to see the exhibition of the works selected for viewing out of the several hundred portraits submitted to the First Nordic Portrait Competition that ran last year. It was engaging to experience the variety of suggestions of what a moderne (self) portrait can look like. One of the works that also by virtue of its digital format really captivated me, was the little piece: Synne which is also available online [just click the link and you go straight to it, it's in Norwegian though]. "Synne" consists of an interactive Flash-piece, small snippets of conversations through digital media (messenger, sms, email) between two people, Synne and Jone, that you click through. "What's so interesting about that?", you think in the beginning, but it turns out towards the end (sorry bout the spoiler) that Synne died shortly after the last message. So suddenly it is also snippets of the last months of someone's life, you've been looking at. It's oddly moving, and thought-provoking, that we are now also able to store so many pieces of the people we love and care about, through digital media. If we want to - and if we think about it in due time...
# posted by Lisbeth at: 12:41