Tuesday, August 26, 2008

ART & Narration/Time

What has changed?

The way we experience time...
The way we tell stories visually...

How has the internet intervened?

Do we ever experience a cohesive narrative - a story with beginning middle and end - in that order?

Read this from>>>Media Art Net
"During the twentieth century the art of storytelling has undergone drastic changes and weathered many a crisis, in the course of which its death was prophesied more than once. Through the centuries, the narrative craft—traditionally understood as describing the course of actual or imagined events—has not only looked to societal and political changes for inspiration, but, through formal modifications, has also signaled and itself become an expression of these societal developments...."

2 comments:

This one said...

I've only just started reading this, but I'm excited as it fits with one of my other research topics, thanks Amanda!

M H said...

I have only just started reading it too. Fascinating.