Atlascine is an online platform designed for annotating and mapping transcribed audiovisual media. It allows for the geographical and thematic visualization of stories through an interactive map, offering innovative ways to navigate within and between them, thereby facilitating the exploration and study of their spatial dimensions and relationships. Atlascine serves as an open-source research and exhibition tool that has been used in fields such as oral history, film studies, and urban studies, and could be relevant for a range of qualitative research projects and story-based exhibitions.
2024-10-14
Lea Kabiljo, Assistant Professor at the School of Art at Laval University (Quebec) presented The "Raconte-moi Riopelle/Tell me about Riopelle" initiative at the 56th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association in San diego (USA). [...]
This atlas traces video-recorded life stories of members of the Rwandan-Canadian diaspora. It offers new ways of transmitting, sharing and studying personal and collective stories, using place as an entry point.
Working with oral history and place-based research-creation methods, La Ville Extraordinaire foregrounds the urban knowledge of four diverse groups of older Montrealers through the mapping of about 80 interviews.
This project maps 17 oral history interviews about the life and work of artist Jean-Paul Riopelle. This digital audiovisual archive deepens our understanding of the life and career of this world-renowned artist.
A research project dedicated to mapping the memories and the intangible heritage of Parc-Extension, a diverse neighbourhood in Montreal, that is experiencing rapid gentrification.
"This project examines the position of the itinerant entertainer or musician in the political economy of Montreal. Urban and social transformations are explored from the vantage point of this itinerant figure through the mapping of oral history interviews of buskers."