Steven Daiber is an artist who runs Red Trillium Press. He recently published a book, El Muro, with Cuban artist Eduardo Hernandez Santos. Before the book was published, the prints were shown at the Havana Biennial. This is part two of my interview with Daiber. The Red Trillium website says you met Cuban photographer Eduardo Hernández Santos because he and your wife, photographer Jacqueline Hayden were exchanging photographs. How did that come about? What kinds of prints were exchanged? Hernández makes photos…does Jacqueline make photos too? In April 2007, Jackie had a solo exhibition at Artes Plasticas Galleria, Havana, Cuba ... More » »
Last June I attended the Hybrid Book Conference at University of the Arts where I was a respondent (along with Anabelle Rodriguez). The conference was a mix of sessions about teaching book arts today and musings about cyberbooks and the future of the mostly real world paper practice. It was a great conference — and had a nice book fair at which many of the conference’s participants had tables.