Visual Analytics Lab (VAL)

https://www2.ocadu.ca/research/val/home

The Visual Analytics Lab (VAL) is focused on innovation and training in information, scientific visualizations and visual analytics. Driven by the increasing complexity of data sets and the need for visualization of both data and information the VAL’s research team of researchers, designers, artists, cultural theorists, graphics specialists, software developers, and others invents new visual metaphors, create analysis algorithms, and deliver prototypes and research outcomes that strive to make complex data meaningful by skilful visual designs, compelling interaction, sound analytic methods, and solid engineering. The VAL collaborates with local experts, international partners and industry partners with projects that span urban and transportation issues, financial and health care services, publishing and social and media and the entertainment sector.

Center for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora

https://www.blackcanadiandiasporacentre.com

The overall goal of the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora at OCAD University is to make visible and provide access to the works of contemporary Black artists, craftspeople, curators, and critics in Canada who have been historically erased from the imaginary of Canadian visual culture. Through the development of a dynamic online platform housing curatorial projects by/about Black Canadian producers, the Centre aims to expand our understanding of Canadian Black contemporary cultural production from the period spanning 1987 to the present. The first resource of its kind, the Centre will raise awareness of the important role of Black artists in the histories of the visual and media arts in Canada.

Archives and Records

https://www.sfu.ca/archives.html

Supporting teaching, research, and university administration by acquiring, protecting and enabling access to university and private records of historic value.

SFU Archives holds unique, unpublished materials in a variety of media, including photographs, audiovisual material, and born-digital records. These records document the dynamic (and often turbulent) history of the university and its community, and support diverse teaching and research interests at SFU. Guided by our Acquisition Mandate, we acquire records through transfer from university departments, and donations from the SFU community and private individuals and organizations. 

SFU Archives welcome students, faculty, and administrators; scholars and students from other universities; and members of the general public and assist them with their research and learning needs.

Library Special Collections and Rare Books

https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/branches-depts/special-collections

Special Collections and Rare Books is a collecting repository home to a broad range of rare and unique content, including personal and organizational archives, manuscript collections, books, photographs, sound recordings, oral histories, editorial cartoons, posters, and other formats.

Since its inception as the SFU English Department’s special collection of avant-garde publications in 1965, SCRB has acquired material to support research, teaching, and learning at SFU and beyond. 

VIVO Media Arts Center / Christa Dahl Media Library & Archives

http://archive.vivomediaarts.com/fonds-and-collection/

VIVO (est.1973) is Western Canada’s largest media-centric ARC, home to the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive. Their mandate is to provide production, education, dissemination, and presentation support to media arts practitioners locally and internationally. The CDMLA holds a wide breadth of 13K+ materials spanning video, print, and equipment, representing diverse and underrepresented communities. CDMLA/VIVO specializes in the creative remediation of archival materials, by manipulating materials directly or creative positioning of contemporary materials in relationship to historical materials. thirstDays (https://thirstdays.vivomediaarts.com/) curated by Jayce Salloum was a monthly series that ran for twelve months as a curatorial collaboration that that brought Indigenous, People of Colour, LGBTQ2+, writers, performers, and academics to VIVO, often engaging with the complexities of “The Archive” as week as specific materials in the archives at VIVO.  

City of Vancouver Archives

https://vancouver.ca/your-government/city-of-vancouver-archives.aspx

The City of Vancouver Archives acquires a variety of records that document the city’s history.

Our archivists ensure that these records are preserved so that future researchers, historians, and anyone interested in the story of Vancouver and its citizens can access these valuable primary and secondary sources.

BC Labour Heritage Centre

https://www.labourheritagecentre.ca/

The BC Labour Heritage Centre Society preserves, documents and presents the rich history of working people in British Columbia. The Society engages in partnerships and projects that help define and express the role that work, and workers have played in the evolution of social policy and its impact on the present and future shaping of the province.

The BC Labour Heritage Centre Society are a registered non-profit society (BC) and a registered charity (Canada). Their board of directors are volunteers; they have two part-time staff. Increasingly the BC Labour Heritage Centre Society are receiving collections of union records for preservation and archiving. Most are small, personal collections; however, they intend to expand this portion of their mandate in 2022 to include larger labour organizations.  

BLAC

https://www.blacartscentre.ca/

The Black Artist Directory is a digital record of the Black artists and creatives situated in the Surrey and Greater B.C area, maintained by our team. This directory aims to inform the BLAC team of the practices of the Black cultural producers in this city and provides a platform for resource and knowledge sharing between BLAC, the artists and community members we aim to serve. The directory aids the BLAC team in connecting Black artists with partner organizations when professional development opportunities arise. The BLAC team adamantly believes that Black artists should be properly compensated for their time and labour. To that effect, the BLAC team facilitates the relationships between external organizations and the artists in our directory to ensure fair compensation and working conditions during projects.