Opening Art Exhibition Reception - Stories Reimagined

Artists often play the role of storyteller. They have been the illustrators of important social, cultural, and religious narratives that have been passed down over generations. Artist have also used storytelling as a tool to share and interpret their own lived experiences with others and advocate for social change. Today, when digital tools present new ways to create and mediate our narrative experiences, Stories Reimagined brings together artists working in this genre alongside technological applications and collaborators. We are in an era where technology is rapidly evolving, enabling us to create artwork enhanced by digital tools, produce new works born in a digital space, and work alongside AI (Artificial Intelligence) to generate novel conceptual constructs. The results can be engaging and eye-opening, as many of the works in this exhibition illustrate. These works draw together threads of memory, imagination, myth, social action, and creative expression. Many are further enhanced and their narratives layered with audio, video, text, and digital animation. With each of these approaches come risks and challenges, as artists, colleagues, and viewers must learn to operate new technologies and consider the ethics of their use. And yet, the work in this exhibition reveals the amazing potential to re-imagine storytelling through the intersection of art and technology.