Julie Andreyev
Associate Professor and Co-Director, Basically Good Media Lab
Bio
Julie is an artist and educator based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish people. Their research explores more-than-human ethnographies and multispecies creativity, experimenting with land-based methods combined with video, sound and performance technologies. At ECU, they co-developed the New Media + Sound Arts major, the Ecological Practices in Art minor, and the course Animal Ethics + Creativity. Julie has a PhD from Simon Fraser University.
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Research Interests
Julie’s research explores multispecies creativity and how immersion can play a part in a renewed sense of kinship with nature. The research combines knowledge from the ecological and biological sciences, decoloniality and multispecies studies, with explorations in video, sound and land-based methods.
Julie’s PhD thesis was adapted into their book Lessons from a Multispecies Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding and Biophilia through Creative Reciprocity. Their Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grant-funded project Branching Songs focuses on listening, sound, touch to create gestures of gratitude for trees and forest communities around Vancouver and coastal regions.
Their long-term tending project Bird Park Survival Station is a co-production with local birds, providing affordances—fresh water, small amounts of food, caching and perching features—to help them survive the climate emergency.
