Wild Empathy

description

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
Dr Maria Lantin, director of the Basically Good Media Lab, ECU
Simon Overstall, composer and computational aesthetics
Dr Deirdre Brink, biologist
Damien Gillis, documentary filmmaker
Dr David Baar, computer scientist
Lorenz Jimenez, photographer and videographer
Sean Arden, research technician in the Mixed Reality Lab, ECU
Mana Hairichian Saei, research assistant, ECU
Edward Madojemu, research assistant, ECU
Michael Fowler, research assistant, ECU

Supported by: 
Gillespie Design Research Grant, Emily Carr University, 2018