Artmob Digital Archives Projects
bpNichol online archive - bpNichol.ca
Status: launched
URL: www.bpnichol.ca
bpNichol.ca is an online public archive of the works of bpNichol and his collaborators. The archive includes audio, digitized print materials, photographs, links and will eventually also incorporate video, critical articles and curated exhibitions.
The site was developed by the Artmob project in collaboration with Ellie Nichol, and is designed as a not-for-profit community initiative.
Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series archive
Status: launched
URL: cwip.artmob.ca
Since 2004, York has hosted readings and presentations by over 50 of Canada’s most significant, emerging authors through the Canadian Writers in Person (CWIP) series. These wonderful episodes in CanLit have been captured on video, but have remained stored in their original taped form and thus essentially inaccessible until now.
Artmob partnered with CWIP to develop a digital archive that enables scholars, students and lovers of Canadian literature to hear authors read their own works in their own voices and reflect on their unique experiences of the creative process.
Scream Literary Festival online archive
Status: in development
The Scream Literary Festival online archive will feature a rich, diverse collection of digitized posters, programs, graphic designs, video clips and audio clips of readings. The collection will cover much of the festival's history, providing multimedia documentary of a literary festival at which many of Canada's literary luminaries have performed over the years.
Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture — ModernDrama.ca
Status: in development
ModernDrama.ca currently features a variety of online resources relating to performance and culture, including a multimedia chronology of modern western theatre in cultural context, a hypertextual glossary of theatre terminology, organized audio and video libraries of street theatre, essays, and more. Artmob will be migrating these materials into a more up to date content management system to ensure the technical viability of this important cultural resource for years to come.
Fred Wah online archive
Status: in development
Fred Wah is one of the most important and innovative writers and critics to have emerged from western Canada in the second half of the twentieth century. Since 1965, Wah has published twenty-four books of poetry, the first entitled Lardeau (1965), the most recent, Sentenced to Light (2008). Waiting For Saskatchewan (1985) won him a Governor-General's Literary Award in 1986 and So Far was awarded the Stephanson Award for Poetry in 1992.
Artmob is working with Dr. Susan Rudy to develop an online digital archive featuring Fred Wah's celebrated career.
