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MUSE7008 The Art of Storytelling

Harald Kraemer

Semester 1, Mondays, 10:00-12:50

Quick overview
 

This course provides an introduction to the history of storytelling and an overview of its forms and strategies.

Who it's for?
 

This course is part of the Curation concentration and is well suited to other curation classes on offer (e.g. 7002, 7003, 7014). That course is helpful to those aiming to pursue careers as a curator.

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Description

 

The objects that constitute museum collections hold countless stories, and museums interpret and communicate these stories through a diverse range of media. Particular emphasis is given to the narrative approaches of various types of time-based media, such as film, games, and comics, as well as interactive applications and exhibitions. A primary focus of the course is dramaturgy—how stories are constructed and presented—and the final project involves developing stories based on individual objects. Knowledge acquired from the course will assist students in creating narrative plots using time-based media, and will support the tasks of interpreting and communicating museum content.

Recomended Readings

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  • ABBOTT, H. P. (2011): The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2nd ed.

  • BAL, M. (2009): Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, Toronto, 3rd ed.

  • BRINGLEY, P. (2023): All the Beauty in the World. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me. A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art. New York: Simon & Schuster. 

  • BRYAN, A. (2011): The New Digital Storytelling. Creating Narratives with New Media, Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

  • CUNO, J. (2011): Museums Matter. In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum, University of Chicago Press.

  • KRAEMER, H. (2007): "Simplicity, slowness and good old stories as strategic and perspectives of design in hypermedia and media“, in: ICHIM, Toronto CDN, 25.10.2007. www.archimuse.com/ichim07/abstracts/prg_335001550.html

  • KRAEMER, H. (2006): „Museums are storytellers! New perspectives of education and hypermedia“, in: Understanding the New Dynamic: Art,Technology, and the Mind, Readings, ed. by The New Media Consortium, CASE Western University & Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 165–172.

  • LUBAR, St. (2017): Inside the Lost Museum. Curating, Past and Present, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. 

  • McCLOUD, S. (1993): Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art. HarperCollins, New York.

  • SEROTA, N. (1996): Experience or Interpretation. The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art, London: Thames & Hudson.

  • THOMAS, Ni. (2016): The Return of Curiosity. What Museums are good for in the 21st Century, London: Reaktion Books.

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