Interview with Howard Chaykin: Jazzy narratives and stylish colour-blindness
Howard Chaykin is my first interviewed comic book artist from this year’s edition of Funny Comic Show Festival, held in November in Zagreb. I grabbed some of his time after two days seminar on comic book labour, he led at the beginning of the festival.
Chaykin is considered among experts as one of the most innovative storytellers, influenced by jazz and politics, but always on the edgy side of controversy during the history of comic books.
Photo above: Howard Chaykin (taken from F-book)
Photo bellow: American Flagg!, First Comics (c)
Interview with Zdenko Basic, part 2: A word or two on material tangibility
This is the second part of the interview with Zdenko Basic… Read the first part here: Scopes of lucidity in illustration and animation
Photo of Z. Basic by Filip Filkovic Philatz (c)
Interview with Zdenko Basic, part 1: Scopes of lucidity in illustration and animation
For a very long time I’m planning to detain for an interview Zdenko Basic… practically from the beginning of my blogging… Somehow other topics and other people entered into life of this digital creature called Body Pixel…
During this year’s edition of Animafest – World Festival of Animated Film, Zdenko was detained in the quarters of the festival and examined about his crime: illustration and animation. This verdict is announced: life sentence to be served in the deepest part of the fairy land with a working obligation of doing only moving pictures and illustrations. The execution sentence starts now!
Zdenko Basic and one of his Elves (c)
Photo of Z. Basic by Filip Filkovic Philatz (c)
Interview with Abigail Stiers and Alexander Gross: On technology, algorithms, DIY and inventing things
In May this year I had an opportunity to partake at the first regional Wearable Technology workshop at Digital Media Lab Ljudmila.org in Ljubljana (Slovenia), organized my MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art. The workshop was led by MFA intermedia students from the University of Maine (USA), Abigail Stiers and Alexander Gross.
Since, Abby and Alex were for last three months lecturers at the CIANT – International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague (Czech), it was really nice to talk about their own work, the perception of technology and DIY scenes in USA and Europe, and the generation gap between new media art and fine art. Oh, we talked a little bit about Arduino, too.
Photo: Abigail Stiers, taken from CIANT (c)