In the line of projects working with digital storytelling we will present the The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).

In a new cultural institution dedicated to the moving image, ACMI, digital storytelling is playing a key role in the center’s activities and have done it since the start in 2002. ACMI is working for an extension of the:

“…role of a traditional cultural institution by changing its relationship to the public, no longer perceiving them as merely passive receivers but rather creative partners in the production of moving image content.” (Hartley, in press).

The major aim of the ACMI is to engage the public in the art of moving images. At the center the public can walk in, sign up for a workshop and create a digital story while being tutored by experts in digital storytelling. Finally a selection of the digital stories is exhibited in the center’s showroom (with the creators’ permission).

Collecting and distributing diverse personal narratives also builds a notion of democratic society based on sharing collective mutual understanding and respect through story.

Unlike Capture Wales and We Shall Remain the ACMI is addressing the digital storytelling workshops to all the citizen of the country, not just a section of the population. As the other presented projects, ACMI is based on the principals of CDS, besides showing how the former audience for exhibitions and television can become creative partners in the production of content.

To read more about ACMI, please visit www.acmi.net.au