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 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 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...
Biophilic Ethics and Creativity with More-Than-Human Being
PhD research, Simon Fraser University,
Special Arrangements in Graduate Liberal Studies (home department)
Topic: An interdisciplinary investigation into an expansion of ethics for more-than-human beings examined through interspecies relational creativity in art processes.
Description: Anthropocentric views historically have limited the...
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Created with the artists’ field recordings of bird and insect communications in Fillongley Park, and Andreyev's theremin accompaniment, Biophilia proposes a more-than-human relational soundscape. The contributions from raven, crow, robin, flicker, cricket individuals are treated here as communications—calls presenting opportunities for responses...
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...
Website: vegancongress.org
Founded in 2013, the Vegan Congress is an activist group creating relational art to develop discourse on veganism and practical ethics with regards to other animals. The objectives of the group are to offer compassionate means to consider animals as subjects of their own lives. The group aims to make more...
Wait explores the human-companion species relationship, using installation techniques of computer vision and interactive video. As a gallery visitor enters the installation space, a life-size video projection shows a dog walking towards the visitor. If the visitor continues to stand in position, the dog will also stand and wait, observing the visitor. If the visitor turns to leave, the dog also walks away. In...
*glisten) HIVE is a project that aggregates, visualizes and sonifies Twitter communications about animals. The project offers textual representations of empathy, as a form of ecological relating. The Tweets selected for the project are mapped into the installation as animated text mimicking social-insect swarming patterns. The animations are created using Max/MSP software that...
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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