Dr. Julie Andreyev

Julie Andreyev is a Vancouver based artist-activist, researcher and educator. Her interspecies art practice, called Animal Lover, with collaborative others, explores more-than-human creativity to develop kinships with local lifeforms and ecologies. Andreyev’s work has been shown locally, nationally and internationally, and she has published essays in academic journals, books, catalogues and magazines. Her research and artwork are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Andreyev has a PhD from Simon Fraser University, and is Associate Professor in the Audain Faculty of Art, Emily Carr University of Art + Design where she teaches New Media + Sound Arts, and Critical Studies.

Andreyev 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 Survival Station), and investigating the creation of immersive media depicting experiences within old-growth forest ecologies (Wild Empathy).