Dr. Julie Andreyev

Bio

Julie Andreyev is an artist, reasearcher and Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design where she teaches in the New Media + Sound Arts major, Critical Studies and Foundation courses. Her artwork has been shown locally, nationally and internationally, and she has published essays in academic journals, books, catalogues and magazines.

She enjoys walking with her canine collaborators, Tom and Sugi, paying attention to the liveliness of the local animals, trees and plants, and Earth forces. She is currently working on creative co-productions with birds, including the crow family whose territory includes her home (Bird Park), and investigating the creation of immersive media depicting experiences within old-growth forest ecologies (Wild Empathy).

work

Wild Empathy

2018

Wild Empathy develops new methods for aesthetic production, using immersive media in a VR prototype, can function to generate human empathy for, and ecological behaviors towards, local old growth trees and forest ecologies. The Wild Empathy experiments are based on the team’s recordings of old growth trees in a local forest. Read more…

Research team:
Julie Andreyev, principle investigator
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Bird Park

2018

https://vimeo.com/235235159

Bird Park is part of a research project exploring the potential for interspecies making, with free-living birds, to produce symbiotic sonic and visual forms. The research involves a situated field station in Vancouver, the Bird Park, that collects visual, sonic, gestural, and social data from birds visiting the station. The goal is to learn about...
EPIC_Tom

2016

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...