The Roots of Digital Storytelling: A workshop in revealing meaning without defining it

With Carolina Cambre

Visuality (and sound) has an important yet under-developed and under-theorized role to play in the relationship between learning, knowledge production, and transmission in the university. Tools like digital storytelling present one way to explore this dynamic. This workshop will review the roots of digital storytelling practices and provide ways for participants to explore developing digital stories either through narrative driven approaches or image driven approaches. Finally we will examine the implications for research, and the role that digital storytelling can play at different points in the research process.

Carolina Cambre is an award-winning artist, writer and educator at Concordia University. Her book, The Semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective gateways (2015), presents a series of encounters with the photograph, Guerrillero Heroico (1960) by Alberto Korda, its unique trajectory and endless renderings. Her research-creation practice has spanned the fields of visual anthropology, sociology and education as well as across a variety of artistic media.