{"id":448,"date":"2008-09-15T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=448"},"modified":"2008-09-15T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T19:22:31","slug":"matt-huynh-diffusion-residency-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Matt Huynh – Diffusion Residency, August 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Huynh<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is a comic creator and illustrator based in Sydney, Australia. In August 2008 he visited London for a Diffusion residency at our studio in Clerkenwell. Matt worked on two Diffusion projects whilst on the residency; in his own words, “The eBook is a format developed for easy, viral distribution, so my challenge was to take it in the other direction to create a unique version of the eBook that would be difficult to reproduce and mass distribute.” The first project resulted in a single unique work adapted from the eBook folding format. Matt’s eBook, Anytime<\/a>, contains an artist’s statement about the work and his process.<\/p>\n

The second project, insideout<\/a>, used the eBook as the format to create and distribute a free comic – “a playful 27 page comic-booklet about the contradictions of affection (with ghosts).”<\/p>\n

“When it came to developing the ‘eBook’ format, I was inspired to reflect its encouragement of sharing creative processes and ideas in the comic book’s subject matter and style.<\/p>\n

The comic’s aesthetic is almost completely created with soft pencils. In commercial comics processes, the penciling stage is one of the initial processes in creating a work’s visual aesthetic. Here, I’ve chosen pencils, sometimes with my construction lines even peeping through, as the final aesthetic to capture and showcase this project’s ambition to share process.<\/p>\n

It was with the transparency of process at the forefront of my mind that I was inspired to have the protagonists of ‘insideout’ appear as ghosts, and it was with the aim of being open to embrace and share ideas and processes that I modeled the narrative to concern these ghosts’ conflicting attitudes towards demonstrating and receiving affection and their fear to venture outside the door of their haunted home.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The eBooks
\n<\/strong>insideout<\/a>
\nAnytime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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