sxsw interactive 2010 abstract comic by honoria starbuck

SXSW Interactive 2010 Abstract Comic and Appreciation

Honoria StarbuckArtist and Teacher

Art Institute of Austin

honoria.starbuck@gmail.comGallery: slideshare.net/honoria

Live Art Blogging

BEAUTY IN WEB DESIGNCennydd Bowles

Why is the web ideally suited to become a vehicle for true beauty

in the Information Age?

Aesthetic usability effect

Visceral design rewards

Scan the horizon for the golden moment

BATTLE DECKSOwn the excellence.

… a laugh riot where contestants have to put together a presentation

on the fly as slides are randomly projected for their confusion.

Ten Slides . Five Minutes . No crying

Humor and Fear

Happiness does have its consequences

In conclusion, I’m drunk right now

REVENGE OF EDITORIALSRichard Ziade

…to sift through Web content to find quality. We've tried it with machines and mass consensus but the results are either wrong or lowest common denominator.

Would people pay for a less cluttered Web?

Sirens – evacuate the building

CONCEPTART.ORG PARTYVisions A Spectacular Multi-Media Performance

Live digital and traditional painting performances, live music,

beautiful muses and fashion

UNIVERSITIES IN THE ERA OF “FREE”

Glenn Platt

Peg Faimon

Think like an entrepreneur.Give more than you get.Hire people that think this way.

Angel investor is the new model of professor.

Train Ph.D’s to think more contextually.

Engaging the Queer Community

#sxswhomoSXSWi 2010

abstract comic pagesHonoria Starbuck

Artist and TeacherArt Institute of Austin

Come for the smut and stay for the queer theory

homos are here but where are you?! Fashionably late?

How has the Internet shaped activism?

NEW PUBLISHING AND WEB CONTENT

Jeffrey ZeldmanErin KissaneLisa HoltonMandy BrownPaul Ford

creative, strategic, and marketing challenges of traditional and Internet

hybrid publishing

We don’t know who owns it.

You are metadata.

THE EMOTION ENGINE:CAN A VIDEO GAME SPEAK TO THE HEART?

Frank Rose

Peter Molyneux

Peter Molyneux the creative force behind the Fable series and the

seminal god game Populous

Choice & consequences.

People playing Fable III will face an entirely new set of choices.

Who will they sacrifice? Thousands of people or their dog?

Pull on your heart strings.

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SEDUCTIVE INTERACTIONS

Stephen Anderson

Are you designing serendipity, arousal, rewards and other seductive

elements into your applications?

delightfulness

INDIRECT COLLABORATION:COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY ON THE WEB

Joe AlterioTim LillisAndrea GroverJoshua GlennRiley Crane

Why is scalabilty bad for creativity?

It’s a wappening..

It goes back to Dada..

…the critique of cheap online labor

MILLIONAIRE OR ARTIST?HOW ABOUT BOTH?

Amrita Chandra

Hugh MacLeod

John T Unger

Mary Anne Davis

How being a creative entrepreneur can provide better job security than a day job

Entrepreneurs and artists are truly very similar. Social media is definitely the way to gain exposure nowadays.

What is the function of Duchamp or Beuys?

It’s good to be funny.

Have you hugged your client today?

CONNECTED: THE SURPRISING POWER OF OUR (REAL LIFE) SOCIAL NETWORKS

James Fowler

Make good behaviors visible.

The sweetness of transitivity…

The human super-organism, your friend’s friends’ friend.

Deep personal relationship behaviors spread

MULTIPLATFORM STORYTELLINGMASTER CLASS WITH TIM KING

Brent Friedman

Deploying content simultaneously on all three mediums:

broadcast, broadband, mobile

Connected to the audience by a thin thread of authenticity

setting a high bar for audience relationship with storytelling

BE CREATIVE GET PAIDNick Campbell

What can YOU do and learn to make yourself valuable in a creative

marketplace?

Deadlines: make everything happen

Bruce Sterling RantSXSW Interactive 2010

Abstract Comic and Appreciation

Honoria StarbuckArtist and Teacher

Art Institute of Austin

honoria.starbuck@gmail.comTwitter: honoria

Blog: Honoriartist.livejournal.comFacebook: Honoria

Slideshare.net/honoria

the ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier

Socrates never did any work, he just hung around the agora tweeting and blogging

Bleak-chic soundbites, fractal crowd attention, amplified copy errors, precious hints of context

the future is a process not a destination

…the panel as a kind of window onto a world, becomes problematized in many cases, particularly if one looks at abstract comics.

Derik A Badman. http://madinkbeard.com/blog/archives/abbott-1986.

Artist Statement

In this series of abstract comic pages the narrative is the view of the artist moving from panel to panel at the SXSW Interactive 2010 conference.

A panel form is painted into each painting in a shape formed of gesso. Often the gesso is square or rectangular, but there are circular panels as well. Abstract shapes flow over and around the gesso panels. These paintings were done live in the audience at selected panels and presentations at SXSWi.

In a traditional comic the ink is focused into linear inking and lettering. Here the ink is a wash that flows in the background.

Playing with the materials and constructs of comics in abstraction captures the flow of the conference in which abstract ideas are debated, flaunted, and compared in myriad discussions always partying with creativity, entrepreneurism, success, and hope.

Collectors/Galleries:Each painting is ~ 7.5 by 11 inches in charcoal, gesso, watercolor, gouache, and pastel on 140 lb Arches watercolor paper pre-stained with India ink, gesso, and acrylic paint.

The original signed paintings are for sale, trade, or display.

Sharing:If you reproduce the digitized images in this deck kindly attribute the work to Honoria Starbuck.

Thank you for looking at my work.

honoria.starbuck// at \\ gmail.comhonoriartist.livejournal.comTwitter: honoria