Julie Andreyev
Julie Andreyev is an artist, vegan, educator, and researcher. Her art practice called Animal Lover explores other-than-human animal agency and creativity through modes of interspecies collaboration. She works primarily with her two companion dogs Tom and Sugi (www.tomandsugi.com, twitter: @Tom_and_Sugi).
Her work has been shown across Canada, in the US, Europe, China and Japan in galleries and festivals such as The Vancouver Art Gallery, SIGGRAPH, Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Viper, CHI, Japan Media Arts Festival, Digital Art Weeks, Nuit Blanche. Andreyev’s work is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The British Columbia Arts Council, Foreign Affairs Canada, and The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, and Artistic Director of Interactive Futures, www.interactivefutures.ca.
Andreyev’s current PhD research at Simon Fraser University examines compassion as a means for improved human awareness and relationship with more-than-human worlds..
