28 April 2008

Exhibition - May 2nd, University of Dundee, 6 pm to 8.30 pm.

How does storytelling change as we advance through a digital age? Portable devices, interactive media and new technologies are all possible influences on how we tell stories and how they are received by the audience.

Now students on the Interactive Media Design programme at the University of Dundee are presenting a festival of storytelling, `Timeless Tales’, which explores the potential of storytelling in the digital age.

The third-year students are staging the festival on May 2nd, with each of the 23 of them presenting a different way of retelling what are often traditional tales.

Visitors can gather around a digital campfire, play around with an interactive `iTales’, take part in `Storyteller’ game show and be mesmerised by the idea of `Shadow Telling’.

The festival will take the visitor through the various formats of interactive media, from screen-based work, to live performance and stand alone pieces, with a central theme that stories are not copied, they are reborn.

"Storytelling is something that has changed throughout the ages as different forms of media and technology have emerged," said student Sarah McMichael. "We are in a period just now where the rapid development of digital technology is again affecting how stories are delivered and received, and how they can be manipulated both by the teller and the audience."

"With this festival we are looking at these changes and suggesting interesting and dynamic new ways that storytelling may evolve."

The festival will take place on the 2nd of May from 6pm to 8.30pm in the Interactive Media Studios on Level 8 of the Matthew Building, University of Dundee.

http://imd.dundee.ac.uk/timelesstales.

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