For Marlies Romberg, a recent grad of the Utrecht School of Arts, her goal is to "to materialize the ungraspable fast digital world and create an opportunity for nostalgia in this future world." The result is Dear diary 1.0, above, the fusion of the real world and the digital world...
A computer embedded in a traditional wooden desk, a wooden keyboard
laser cut into and out of the surface of the desk with a screen to
match. Marlies explains; "Personally, I am fascinated by how the world
is changing into a digital world. To me it seems that; the digital
world is personal but not private at all. For example, when I Google to
find information about a friend, I will most likely find information
about his life, his pets, his company and maybe a review on a digital
camera that he has recently written. Notice that the digital verb
'Googling' has recently got the status of a real verb in the
Netherlands.