Ninth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

A storyteller is a person who relates stories to an audience through one medium or another. However, storytelling was transformed by the advent of hybrid media and technology. Therefore, a storyteller is now more of a hybrid performer than the traditional concept of a storyteller, as emerging media and technologies are applied in storytelling. The non-traditional forms, methods, and aesthetics have affected storytelling in many ways. This paper will present an innovative storytelling through real-time interactive images, using devices such as light boxes, document cameras, webcams, computers, projectors, etc., alongside the support of Quartz Composer. The storytellers interact and converse with the online images using real-time projection from an optical table combined with animation, live storytelling, and singing. This allows the storytellers, as well as the audience, to meander through memories, imagination, and life journeys, then contort and expand into the online world. During the storytelling and performing process, together they construct a hybrid of visuals, sounds and temporality.