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I'm not sure why I am always researching, but I am. Digital tools for storytelling were one of my special interests this year so I worked more with online museum/gallery spaces and AI video tools. Here are some insights from attending a digital museum conference and some of my experiences telling stories with AI and digital tools.
CONFERENCE I found inspiration in the Belvedere Research Centre (Austria) virtual conference "The Art Museum in the Digital Age" (Jan 15-19, 2024) where speakers discussed online digital experiences in the metaverse, as well as uses of AI applications in museum exhibitions. 
A few talks to mention - Dr. Suzanne Livingston, co-curated More than Human at the Barbican Centre in London and talked about AI art of Mario Klingemann and other artists using these technologies. She posed questions about how AI can change the idea of the museum as its manifests ability to make connections such that we have "multidimensionality to knowledge (and relationships) like never before" and maybe tuning experience to audiences in other ways, too.
This talk had me thinking about the potential ways AI could shape human experiences in museums. It also led me to search the internet for more about the exhibit - here is link with Ramon Amaro and the impact of data and artificial intelligence in future plus photos from the exhibit. 
Another interesting talk was "Surreal Impressions-Deep Faking the Museum through Dali and Van Gogh" by Anna Calise and Dr. Jasmin Pfefferkorn. They focused on digital technologies used in the museum experiences at the Musee D'Orsay (Paris) and the Dali Museum (Florida), with attention to audience engagement, generative AI (datasets and archives), and notions of authenticity.
Storytelling with digital tools
And my other area of interest this year has been to explore different ways stories are created and shared. One can create a story with text, images, objects, and audio and it can be experienced on paper, canvas, screens, walkthrough exhibitions or audio podcasts, but how can new technologies help us tell a story differently? I tried telling a story with pictures in a few 360 digital art gallery spaces. It was good practice to see if it would work and how easy it was for a viewer to maneuver in the metaverse gallery space. (Still needs work so I won't list any of the programs I used). Also, I watched a webinar about Sora AI video which I suppose could be good for storyboarding though, again, it makes me fearful of loss of jobs. (Video and AI: The transformation of Hollywood - April 25, 2024 - watch a demonstration of Sora with Thobey Campion, founder of Lore Machine) Then the other day I played around using AI talking characters and visuals using Photoshop and generative AI tools to tell a story, or some part of a story that came to mind. (I had plenty of time to spare as I was recovering from a medical procedure and needed a distraction). I wrote the text without AI, but I wanted to visually illustrate it using various AI tools. So, it's not great, but kind of funny piecing together this story idea in a few hours for my friends to laugh about or fear. Maybe generative AI has its uses for quick content creation but...... it still makes me ponder if it's a sort of nutrition-less piece of candy tech, tasty and harmless seeming, yet with time, could give me a sore stomach, rotten teeth, or some cancerous monster growth eating away at my mind and body. (oh that's dark) |
