ORAgen Fables explores the themes of collective authorship and ownership in digital story writing and how emerging technologies could enable us to recognise how our ideas build upon each other. The exhibition will enable the DECaDE team to investigate how different audiences value attribution when their work is reused, and to what extent detailed provenance data could support stronger sense of ownership and collaborations.
Visitors of the creative exhibition were invited to contribute sentences via the interactive based on a central image shown on the screen. Participants then responded to prompts or added to other visitor contributions to build context around the image, and then voted to create a leader board of contributions. A ‘storyteller’ was appointed to take the top contributions and turn them into an entirely new story, suitable for all ages.
The technology behind ORAgen Fables brings together distributed ledger technologies, media tokenisation and the C2PA metadata standard to provide a tool for creators in proving ownership over their digital assets and associated licences, create bespoke and unique licences for their creations, and embed metadata into media in a way that cannot be easily stripped or taken away. DECaDE’s exploration and critical reflection seeks to overcome the most pressing challenges regarding digital ownership and authorship.
DECaDE researcher Frances Liddell from Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh commented, “ORAgen Fables uses storytelling to explore digital authorship and licensing, so it was great to take the interactive to the Storytelling Centre along with storyteller Gerry Durkin and engage the public through creative story writing. Overall, we collected 18 brilliant contributions to different storylines in ORAgen Fables and we look forward to seeing how Gerry transforms these into an entirely new story which we will be sharing with anyone who contributed on the day.“
If you’d like to get involved and try ORAgen Fables the exhibit will be at Leith Police Box, Leith Walk in Edinburgh on 13th March, and the National Museum of Scotland as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival from 14-17th April.
Read more about the ORAgen framework here: ORAgen: Emerging Futures for Media Tokenization and Digital Media Rights – DECaDE
For media queries please contact: decade@surrey.ac.uk
