This practice-based research project focuses on selected contemporary moving image practices that work with strategies of experimental documentary, essayistic filmmaking, and site-specific installation. It focuses on the specific tactics employed by three artists, Dani ...

Automatic decision-making (ADM) systems have permeated every sphere of society where a large amount of data is managed to fulfill prediction/classification needs. The enhanced capabilities ADM systems have brought into their applied sciences conditioned their evolution ...

This dissertation explores how women used practices of spirit photography and psychical research to negotiate social change from the late nineteenth century to today. Developed in the US in the early 1860s, shortly after the Spiritualist movement spread to Canada and th...

Holocaust archives have traditionally been the scholarly territory of the arts and humanities. However, given the tremendous increase in the number of testimonies and documents available, especially since the mid-1990s with the advent of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual ...

The field of authentication has a lot of room to develop in the age of big data and machine learning. Conventional high-accessibility authentication mechanisms including passwords or security questions struggle with critical vulnerabilities, creating a need for alternat...

Our presentation will begin with a demonstration of the Bayfield Historical Web Map (https://www.bayfieldhistoricalwebmap.ca/), an innovative HGIS that can be used to explore the Bayfield Historical Society's georeferenced collection of historical maps, photographs, and...

The Herzberg50 project, done by Defining Moments Canada, commemorates the life of Gerhard Herzberg, the 1971 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. This map was created to be a resource for teachers and students to visualize Herzberg's life, and to make connections with events th...

In this presentation I will explain how I incorporated historical GIS into my History Master's thesis last year. For this project I used ArcGIS Pro to create a Web Map, which I then used to investigate Niagara's economic development in the post-Revolutionary "Loyalist" ...

My presentation will focus on an GIS map I prepared with Professor Compeau over the last two summers. The Map presents the genealogical information for hundreds of Loyalist refugees as they emigrated from their homelands in the newly founded United States.

Mapping sites of historical significance for the Munsee-Delaware community. This map uses the survey123 app to create data points of significance. This database consists of maps highlighting common themes such as Ceremonial Grounds. Additionally, the map highlights loca...