1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

As a part of the ongoing series on how art and scholarship combine in academic storytelling, the Nanovic Institute is pleased to host a lunch presentation with <a href="/people/sarah-edmands-martin/">Sarah Edmands Martin</a>, assistant professor of design and a Nanovic Institute faculty fellow.
Martin produced recently released <em>A Fable of Tomorrows </em>(2024), an artwork consisting of video projection, interactive sculpture, and video game design at the center of which is a fable from the future. It is experienced through multiple media forms. Created while on a 2024 research Fulbright in Norway, the work materializes how human memory, digital computation, and temporality are revealed through fables, riddles, and archives.
As a phantasmagoric video panorama immerses viewers in visions of different temporalities (from deep time to a lifetime), a mysterious artifact poses Old English-inspired riddles, which take more than one human generation to solve. Curated into a solo exhibition in Manchester’s MediaCity which reached over 30,000 people on opening weekend, the work travels to South Korea in 2025 for a solo exhibition at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of State, Notre Dame's <a href="https://artdept.nd.edu">Department of Art, Art History & Design</a>, <a href="https://nanovic.nd.edu">Nanovic Institute for European Studies</a>, and the <a href="https://isla.nd.edu/">Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts</a>.
Join the Nanovic Institute as well as Notre Dame students, faculty, staff, and the general public to learn more about this work, experience the interactive elements of this art, ask questions, and enjoy experiencing an innovative example of the art of academic storytelling.
Lunch for participants will be provided beginning at 12:00 p.m., while supplies last.
About the Series
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<a href="https://nanovic.nd.edu/events/calendar/the-art-and-scholarship-of-academic-storytelling/"><strong>The Art and Scholarship of Academic Storytelling</strong></a> series explores the connections between “The Arts” (music, theater, dance, poetry/creative writing, filmmaking, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpting) and “Scholarship” on the topic of storytelling. Story and narrative are critical in the transmission of human ideas and culture. Thus, the institute and its partners across campus seek to understand how these methods of transmitting ideas may be practiced within an academic context. To do so, it seeks out the expertise of practitioners of the arts who do this type of storytelling in their work. Students, faculty, staff, and the general public are all invited to join these events, which are sometimes scheduled in tandem with performances on campus or in the local community, to consider this fascinating topic that cuts across disciplinary lines and appeals to academic and general audiences alike.
Originally published at <a href="https://nanovic.nd.edu/events/2024/11/13/lunch-presentation-on-a-fable-of-tomorrows-2024-by-sarah-edmands-martin-the-art-and-scholarship-of-academic-storytelling/">nanovic.nd.edu</a>.