The art of storytelling

The art of storytelling

Storytelling: From Cave Art to Digital Media

O nce upon a time, about 6,000 years ago, early tribesmen drove a herd of gazelles into a dead-end canyon in Syria and slaughtered them. All that remained for modern anthropologists were bones from the animals’ lower limbs.1 A copious amount of meat must have been harvested and rapidly consumed—perhaps as part of a religious ceremony with numerous participants—given that era’s lack of refrigera...

Las Meninas in VR: Storytelling and the Illusion in Art

Las Meninas is a virtual reality VR artwork based on the painting of the same name by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez Created for the CAVE tm Las Meni nas attempts to establish a language of art in virtual reality by placing VR in the realm of storytelling storytelling that is not simply formalistic and decorative but also psychological The viewer confronts a narrative cryptogram which can be d...

the aesthetic dimension of howard barkers art: a frankfurtian approach to scenes from an execution and no end of blame

رابطه ی میانِ هنر و شرایطِ اجتماعیِ زایش آن همواره در طولِ تاریخ دغدغه ی ذهنی و دل مشغولیِ اساسیِ منتقدان و نیز هنرمندان بوده است. از آنجا که هنر در قفس آهنیِ زندگیِ اجتماعی محبوس است، گسترش وابستگیِ آن با نهاد ها و اصولِ اجتماعی پیرامون، صرفِ نظر از هم سو بودن و یا غیرِ هم سو بودنِ آن نهاد ها، امری اجتناب ناپذیر به نظر می رسد. با این وجود پدیدار گشتنِ چنین مباحثِ حائز اهمییتی در میان منتقدین، با ظهورِ مکتب ما...

dramatic elements in the storytelling with picture (pardeh-khani) as a multimedia art

the storytelling with picture (pardeh-khani), as one of the traditional forms of theatre in iran has many capabilities in artistic and dramatic expression. yet, about this kind of traditional theatre, many researches has been accomplished about its structure and performing methods. the main question of this article is that, is it possible to use this theatrical form in one of the most important...