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EPIC_Tom 

EPIC_Tom expands on new media performance by incorporating canine voice and creativity. For this interspecies project, the artists ask: what is a dog experiencing the moment just before catching a ball? Could it be proto-euphoric—eager, expectant, desirous? The performance explores visualizing and sonifying, in a live setting, canine collaborator Tom’s state of mind.

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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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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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Canines primarily investigate the world through scent-perception. Human noses have six million scent receptor sites, while dog noses have about three hundred million. Dogs have more genes for coding olfactory cells, more olfactory cells, and the receptors in the nose  connect directly to olfactory bulbs. This combination of more and differing types, and quicker connections, affords dogs an estimated million times more sensitivity to scent than humans.

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A animation project made in After Effect, my instructor is Christopher Hethrington. 

This photographic narrative story is about my dog Woody and his wonderful fantasy that happened in his dream. In his dream, he has all the food, things, and companion that he wants. But when his dream was interrupted by a telephone ring, he returns back to his normal boring life. However, in the end, he realized that reality is not that bad at all.

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SonicSight is a sensor-equipped head halter that enables blind dogs to navigate more easily without running into things. The placement, range and feedback were developed using co-creation with both humans and dogs. My own dog tested SonicSight while blindfolded and was able to navigate without running into objects placed in his path.

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GoDog is was developed as an inexpensive and painless way for arthritic dog owners to play fetch with their dogs. It is operated entirely by stepping down, so the user does not have to bend over or grasp any part of it.

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A dog training tool for dog owners and dog walkers. Utilitizing the willingness of a dog to fetch this system helps dogs and their owners enjoy the training process and sucessfully build skills for the dog park environment.

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Sketches: these are what got me started. They showed me the pleasure of paying attention to fine details, and the results of getting them right.