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The Screen Tests are a pair of videos of canine collaborators, Tom and Sugi. The title quotes the series of films by Andy Warhol depicting close-up living portraits of his friends. As in Warhol’s works, the Screen Tests are slow-motion studies detailing minute changes of expression, and the subject’s self-consciousness in front of the camera. Each Screen Test provides a view of interspecies intimacy through the gaze of the canine looking back at the human. The viewer has an opportunity to witness the subtleties of dog perceptual sense. Each dog’s extreme concentration and steadfast observation returns the viewer’s similar attention.

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Salmon People considers the shared ecologies of salmon and humans through videos of spawning salmon combined with human activity in the ocean and river waters that are part of this Adams River salmon population’s migration route. The project presents a below-water point of view, a realm normally unavailable to human eyes. Salmon, human, marine bird sounds make up the sonic field in the project. Salmon People presents a recombinant video-audio panorama, a constantly changing land-sea-scape, signaling the intertwined worlds of humans and nonhuman beings.

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The Screen Tests are a pair of videos of canine collaborators, Tom and Sugi. The title quotes the series of films by Andy Warhol depicting close-up living portraits of his friends. As in Warhol’s works, the Screen Tests are slow-motion studies detailing minute changes of expression, and the subject’s self-consciousness in front of the camera. Each Screen Test provides a view of interspecies intimacy through the gaze of the canine looking back at the human. The viewer has an opportunity to witness the subtleties of dog perceptual sense. Each dog’s extreme concentration and steadfast observation returns the viewer’s similar attention.

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In Bikeride, the canine point of view is presented in relation to the urban landscape of Vancouver. Bikeride is informed by the everyday activities with dogs, Tom and Sugi. The project details the canines’ actions in relation to urban geography as they run through the city beside the artist riding her bike. Bikeride emphasizes the dog as an urban animal in  landscape continuously in flux. The soundtrack is composed from sounds of the city and dogs recorded during the rides.

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For Aria Andreyev worked with canine collaborators, Sugi and Tom, to explore an archetypal Canadian landscape—Banff National Park. The narrative climaxes with Tom pictured singing a canine aria, a sonic expression of emotional connection to the environment.