Virtual agents based on artificial intelligence have become increasingly popular on social media. Examples of Lil Miquela or Shudu Gram show how completely artificial agents can have a significant influence on our social lives, and especially social media marketing. However, it stands to question how these virtual influencers are actually perceived by consumers, whether they […]

Social media are important ways of interaction between people, creating communities that can engage in order to promote relationships. When used by companies for philanthropic purposes, they can promote actions and donations. The purpose of this research is to understand how engagement can be enhanced through social media communities to get people to help each […]

By combining the information contained in the visual, audio and text content of videos, it is possible to extract complex information about their content. It’s then possible to analyse a query from a search engine to find the video segments that best matches this query. During this project, the intern will be using state-of-the-art deep […]

A successful computer application can easily have millions of users, but handling the network traffic generated by millions of users is not easy. The server system has to be well designed in order to properly process large, concurrent, and distributed data streams without affecting user experience. In addition, users do not generate data constantly, they […]

This project is a computational corpus study that considers harmonic integration in the 31 works of Anton Webern (1883–1945). Harmonic integration concerns the relationship between combinations of notes that sound simultaneously (vertical) and consecutively (linear). During the project, I will write code in Python to analyze the 31 works in the corpus and establish empirically […]

This project will examine the work of Scottish-Canadian experimental animator Norman McLaren through close analysis of the film production infrastructures and cultural programme of nation-building in Canada in the mid-twentieth century. Understanding McLaren as a complex figure caught between contradictory political, aesthetic and social conditions, this project will look at the strategies of complicity and […]

Academic journals rarely feature research-creation projects: as such, they are often limited by conventions inherited from print publishing. Recent efforts to create digital and/or online journals can potentially result in new publishing opportunities for scholars and artists. This project will examine how international online f journals in art history, visual studies, and film and media […]

Cette recherche vise à exploiter les technologies numériques pour la mise en valeur du patrimoine, le développement du tourisme et le soutien de la localité de Touba bastion de la mouridiyya au Sénégal. Tourisme et culture représentent aujourd’hui un couple à fort potentiel d’aide au développement local, notamment dans les pays les moins avancés, et […]

chART: Public Art Marpole 2.0 is a continued exploration into a specific community and its potential relationship to public art as an agent of change. This research internship examines the community of Marpole – its history, Inhabitants, and community – through artistic practice and creative research methodologies. Utilizing interviews, questionnaires, ethnographic methods, creative art practice, […]

Opportunity to identify key attributes of voice that are preferred by different brands (ex. Disney, product vs. service) and develop a model to recommend a brand voice for logos on our platform. Work with stakeholders to capture and analyze industry, product vs.service, and company data then leverage past transactional data to identify fit with various […]

This project explores the history of bird sound recording in Canada and the USA, with a specific focus on the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University, New York, which holds the world’s largest bird sound archive. I will focus on three case study recordings: Arthur A Allen and Peter Paul Kellogg’s 1935 Ivory-Billed Woodpecker […]

The intern will assist Goh Ballet Academy with marketing strategies to engage the community and build awareness surrounding dance and its benefits. Given current circumstances, much of the work will centre around digital marketing and social media promotion, including but not limited to sustainable social media calendars, content creation, and sales conversion reporting. Through these […]