Heads-or-Tales

This project is maintained by mslafrenie

Analyzing and Resisting Canadian Myths Through the Royal Canadian Mint’s Millennium Coin Contest, 1999-2000

These Reflectance Tranformation Imaginging (RTI) models were created for the course HIST 5908, as credit toward the degree of Master of Arts in History – Public History with Specialization in Digital Humanities.

The goal of this project is to challenge dominant narratives of Canadian commemorative coins and to re-situate them in narratives that highlight the nuances of the histories they signify and obscure. The six coins chosen for this project were minted as part of the “Create a Centsation” millennium coin contest. It is time to flip these coins and listen to their tales.

Click on the links below to learn more about the project and find further resources!

The Log Drive

The Voyageurs

Our Northern Heritage

Creativity

Community

Family

Research Essay

Paradata

The WebRTIViewer and the webGLRtiMaker, that made this project accesible online, were developed by Gianpaulo Palma, Visual Computing Lab of ISTI-CNR.

To learn more about RTI please visit the Cultural Heritage Imaging website.