2024-10-14
Presentation of the Atlas "Raconte-Moi Riopelle" at the IVLA Conference in San Diego
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).
The "Raconte-moi Riopelle/Tell me about Riopelle" initiative explores the life and legacy of Canadian artist Jean-Paul Riopelle through a series of raw, unedited oral history interviews with those who knew him. This approach emphasizes the significance of visual, non-verbal cues in these narratives, thereby enhancing archival practices by capturing nuances often missed in edited content. Central to this endeavor is Atlascine. By presenting unedited interviews and leveraging Atlascine, "Raconte-moi Riopelle" transforms traditional archival methods and democratizes the interpretation of Riopelle’s life and art. This strategy challenges standard narrative constructs, allowing for a more inclusive and varied understanding of the artist and his legacy.
2024-08-29
Literary Mapping with Atlascine
Cameron Brubacher has presented his Honors thesis entitled ‘Emotional Cartography: A Geocritical Analysis of Montréal’s Mid-20th Century Novels’ at the Canadian Association of Geographers conference, held at Memorial University in St. John’s, NL, as part of a session exploring creative GIS methodologies entitled ‘Mapping the Edges of Inclusivity’ on Saturday, August 17th.
Combining literary analysis and web-mapping, this project visualizes the emotional depictions of urban spaces as portrayed in two novels set in 1940s Montréal; Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion and Michel Tremblay’s La grosse femme d’à côté est enceinte. Following a close reading and analysis, the Atlascine platform was used to create an interactive web-map which visualizes the positive and negative emotional spaces of the two novels. This cartographic representation confirmed patterns in character’s feelings associated with certain areas of the city, and calls for the continued development of such ‘qualitative’ uses of GIS and mapping software, with the possibility of using methods from the fields of digital humanities and literary geography. The maps he has developped are not accessible publickly because of copyright restrictions.
2024-06-14
Atlas Exhibition in Kigali
The Atlas of Rwandan Life Stories is currently being exhibited in Rwanda at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. You can read more on the exhibition here, Browse photos of the event, and here's an explanation in kinyarwanda.
2024-02-16
Presentation of the Atlas of Intangible Heritage of Parc-Extension at McGill
Sepideh Shahamati will be presenting her Atlas of Intangible Heritage of Parc-Extension at McGill University on Friday Feb. 16, 2024 in the class entitled "Narratives of Quebec: Exploring Identities from Communities to Neighbourhoods". Sébastien Caquard will join her to present the Atlascine project.
2023-11-23
Lancement de l'atlas Raconte moi Riopelle!
L'Atlas Raconte-Moi Riopelle présente une vingtaine de récits partagés par celles et ceux qui ont croisé la route et l'œuvre de Jean Paul Riopelle. Dans cet atlas développé avec Atlascine, les cartes permettent de visualiser la géographie de ces récits, mais aussi de naviguer entre eux de manière à offrir de nouvelles possibilités d'écoute.
2023-10-13
Launch of the Atlascine Website
The new website dedicated to the Atlascine project has been officially launched! This website's goal is to provide a dedicated space for sharing information, news, content, ideas, and tips related to the Atlascine platform. Over the past few years, our main objective has been to collaborate with our partners from the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Center (GCRC) at Carleton University to completely redesign the previous version of the platform (which you can learn more on in the About page) and to support researchers interested in developing their own atlases using Atlascine (visit the Atlas page for examples). With this website, we are now ready to make this platform more accessible to anyone interested in visualizing stories, showcasing fascinating interviews, or creating their own maps and atlases. Much appreciation and thanks to Emory Shaw for building this website!
