If you’ve ever thought that comics are the preserve of geeky kids or those that make it to the end of the Sunday papers’ supplement, think again. Hypercomics is raising this art form to an interactive user experience.
Hypercomics, “the shape of things to come”, is an exhibition at the Pump House Gallery in London showcasing the work of four leading UK visual and comic artists; Adam Dant, Dave McKean, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Warren Pleece. The exhibition, which runs until 26 September 2010, explores the narrative potential of the comic in a physical environment.
Goodbrey explains: “In a hypercomic the choices made by the reader may influence the sequence of events or the point of view throught which events are seen… it’s that element of reader choice and interacion that makes a hypercomic a hypercomic.” Hypercomics at the Pump House Gallery uses the unusual architecture of the building to weave a story that responds to the function, history and form of the building. The outcome of the story then depends on how visitors choose to intereact and move through the space.
Dant depicts a narrative autopsy of the city as he charts the passage of Doctor London through the digestive tract (and other organs) of the capital. Goodbrey creates an alternate history for the gallery as an archive for infamous glam-rock dictator Hieronymus Pop and charts a day in the life of its lone archivist.
If you’ve ever thought that comics are the preserve of geeky kids or those that make it to the end of the Sunday papers’ supplement, think again. Hypercomics is raising this art form to an interactive user experience.
Hypercomics, “the shape of things to come”, is an exhibition at the Pump House Gallery in London showcasing the work of four leading UK visual and comic artists; Adam Dant, Dave McKean, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Warren Pleece. The exhibition, which runs until 26 September 2010, explores the narrative potential of the comic in a physical environment.
Goodbrey explains: “In a hypercomic the choices made by the reader may influence the sequence of events or the point of view throught which events are seen… it’s that element of reader choice and interacion that makes a hypercomic a hypercomic.” Hypercomics at the Pump House Gallery uses the unusual architecture of the building to weave a story that responds to the function, history and form of the building. The outcome of the story then depends on how visitors choose to intereact and move through the space.
Adam Dantdepicts a narrative autopsy of the city as he charts the passage of Doctor London through the digestive tract (and other organs) of the capital. Daniel Merlin Goodbrey creates an alternate history for the gallery as an archive for infamous glam-rock dictator Hieronymus Pop and charts a day in the life of its lone archivist.
