About us

The AMLAC&S is an audiovisual media laboratory for the study of cultures and multicultural societies. The AMLAC&S is a space of research, documentation, and creation of audiovisual production, targeting, in particular, the cultural practices of the communities and identity groups, marginalized, such as blacks and native americans. The main philosophy of AMLAC&S is to produce research on the contribution of the cultural practices of minorities culturalisées, ethnicisées and racialized in the conceptualization of the issues of citizenship in multicultural societies such as Canada. 

This laboratory was founded in 2005 by Professor Boulou Ebanda de B béri, thanks to the financial contribution from the canada Foundation for innovation and the research Fund of the province of Ontario.
With a work room offered by the Faculty of arts of the University of Ottawa, the AMLAC&S holds filming equipment (three digital cameras, a sound recording system and a lighting kit), five systems of non-linear editing FinalCut Pro mounted on five computers Apple Pro, and a storage server documentation audiovisual and databases.

Objectives

The main objectives of the AMLAC&S are :

1. Create an audiovisual database of cultural practices and citizen of cultural minorities, racial and ethnic backgrounds in multicultural societies;
2. Produce audio-visual materials are artistic and educational, that can represent, at the same time, the complexity of the cultural practices and social theories, and theories of culture;
3. Gather and give voice to see (to represent) of cultural practices around issues relating to the experience of cultural minorities, racial and ethnic backgrounds in multicultural societies;
4. Produce reference documents on cultural practices that may be produced or represented otherwise than through the devices of a body with an infrastructure of research and production of their own, and whose research objects are targeted, specifically, to represent racial minorities, ethnic, and cultural, and their experiences; and
5. Generate a report of proximity in the space between the academic, cultural practices, and communities culturalisées, ethnicisées, or marginalized due to its productions and its infrastructure documentation.