Spatial-based mapping for literature has led to recent, fast-paced developments in web-based, collaborative geography projects. The Chinatown Sound Map Project is a university-community based project guided by the curiosity of exploring how sound contributes to our sense of place. It provides a platform for users to listen to and share different experiences in and with Chinatown through the perspective of sound. The Disappearing Moon Cafe interactive tour is a collection of photospheres that provides 360° views of the Chinatown Vancouver neighbourhood. Through an immersive digital experience, the field trip highlights key settings in SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café, featuring commentary about the novel and reflections on Chinatown by the author. virtual tour supplements a special journal issue of Canadian Literature.
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Presenters
Angela Ho
Angela Ho is a fifth year student studying Geography and Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies at the University of British Columbia. She currently works with UBC ACAM as their Marketing and Communications Coordinator, and UBC Geography as their Undergraduate Teaching Assistant. Angela is passionate about using multimedia as a way to learn and connect with the communities that she is embedded in. Some of the projects that she has worked on include the Chinatown Sound Map, an online platform that provides users with the opportunity to share different experiences in and with Chinatown through the perspective of sound.
Christy Fong
Christy Fong is a programmer/quality assurance analyst at UBC Arts ISIT and the web/communications coordinator at Canadian Literature. She graduated with a BA in English Honours and Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies, where she completed a thesis on the 1968-1979 Barbecue Meats Protests in Vancouver’s Chinatown. The project gave her the opportunity to experiment with different research forms, such as short films, websites, and interactive timelines via the intersection of racialised legislation, community activism, and oral histories. New media technologies and their applications to broad-based community storytelling continue to be important motivators in her work.
Thursday October 26, 2017 – 12pm
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