Ozge Samanci
Ozge Samanci was a professor of mine at University of California - Berkeley. She taught a special topics class called "Comics and Graphic Novels" that I took three times (to work independently with her concurrently with the rest of the class). Comics and graphic novels are traditionally known to be physically in print, but in the last decade, has emerged into a digital outlet.
Comics and graphic novels, as argued by Samanci, is both a medium and a genre, but also a form of visual narrative, like a film/video.
Samanci herself uses both traditional mediums (collage, drawing, inks, watercolor, etc.) and new media forms (digital, interactive, etc.) in her own art-making. While the other students and I focused mainly on using similar traditional mediums, Samanci used various new methods to approaching comics and graphic novels.
We were presented with different approaches to storytelling through watching short clips of films, experimenting with coloring in comics using Photoshop, and discussing other ways to understanding narratives, such as digital performances and animation or other nontraditional representations of comics/graphic novels (below).
"Planting Comics" on ceramic tiles
"Embodied Comics" using full-body interactive storytelling environments that functions as a comics generator
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