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Julie Andreyev

Associate Professor and Co-Director, Basically Good Media Lab

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Education:

MA
PhD

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.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
New Media + Sound NMSA 200 26/FA

Description

This course is an introduction to working with time-based media and sound practices, focusing on the use of video and sound to explore relationships with place. Topics include field listening and recording, basic electronics, sound synthesis, soundscape composition, performance, and video installation. The course includes technical workshops, group activities, discussions, and both collaborative and individual projects. Readings and examples of artists and artworks provide critical context for students' thinking and making. Assignments include techniques to enhance listening and observation skills, and generative methods that lead to experimental and open-ended projects. The course fosters an ability to think critically about making media and sound art in relation to the places we inhabit.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Praxis PRAX 310 26/FA

Description

The course acknowledges the interdependence of all beings within the ecologies we share. It invites students to explore knowledge about local ecological systems and more-than-human life, and practice earth-informed, place-based, sustainable material creativity. The course uses immersive field approaches to help foster connections with local ecologies, land, water and earth, and beings who reside here. It engages with topics including climate change, habitat degradation and species extinctions, and explores knowledge from fields such as multispecies studies, social and environmental justice, and Indigenous worldviews to inform forward looking creative practice based on care and reciprocity with land and lifeworlds. Students gain knowledge about artists working within this realm. The course consists of outdoor field sessions in local places, workshops, collaborations, seminars, assignments, and projects. Students share their processes and projects in dialogue with their colleagues.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Visual Arts Studio VAST 320 26/FA

Description

This course provides students with the opportunity to propose and develop a self-directed body of work. Sections are taught with a thematic focus. Through artistic production, research, discussions, writing and critique, students are expected to increase their understanding of the content and context of their process and production as well as their knowledge of contemporary art. Students meet regularly for group meetings as well as in one-to-one tutorials with their instructor(s). Critiques and discussions complement studio production where considerable independent time and maturity is expected.

Each section of this course runs with a different topic. See here .

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.