Julie Andreyev is an artist, researcher and educator in so-called Vancouver, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ Nations. Her multispecies studio explores more-than-human creativity to develop kinships with local lifeforms and ecologies. The research investigates methods of creative reciprocity using noninvasive technologies. Projects take form as land-based sound art, video, media installation, and long-term tending. Andreyev has a PhD from Simon Fraser University and is Associate Professor and co-director of the Basically Good Media Lab at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. Her recent projects are co-creations with local birds in the Bird Park Survival Station, and multispecies sound art with trees and forests in Branching Songs.
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exhibition (Oct 1-Nov 30, 2025): Tales from the Bird Park, Crow Gifts and Crow Stone Tone Poem, “Near Dwellers as Indwellers”, Both Kinds Project Space, curated by Daphne Plessner, Vancouver, BC, Canada
listening session: Oct 30, 2025, Branching Songs Ensemble Recital With a Forest, Resonant Ecologies in collaboration with Swiss Society for Acoustic Ecology, Montreux, Switzerland
radio broadcast: Oct 16-Nov 5, 2025, Branching Songs Ensemble Recital With a Forest, Radio Elsewheres, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor Ont.
(forthcoming open-access paper) Andreyev, Julie. “Keynote Address: shared creation with more-than-human beings“. AfectaLab, 2nd International Meeting on Shared Creation, Lisbon, 2025
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Lessons from a Multispecies Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding and Biophilia through Creative Reciprocity
Published by Intellect Books 2021. Distributed by University of Chicago Press.
A collection of nonfiction, first-person writings about creative collaborations with local animals and ecologies.
“In this highly original book, Julie Andreyev explores agency and consciousness through her encounters with other lifeforms—companion dogs, wild birds, mineral beings, plant life, and forest communities—to illuminate the ways creativity can play a part in generating a renewed sense of wonder and kinship with nature. Drawing from her extensive work in interspecies collaborative art, each chapter weaves together personal reflection, interdisciplinary research, and critical thought with new media, sound, generative, indeterminacy, and other art methods. The threads converge on this main point: the need to move away from anthropocentrism and towards ecological understanding through reciprocity and biophilia. The local journeys in each chapter are guided by more-than-human ways of knowing, which provide an expanded sense of the world and underscore the imperative to act. This book invites readers to step into other worlds, re-sense life, and re-think their relationship with the planet and all of its inhabitants. In proposing an expanded field of aesthetics, Andreyev offers new applied approaches from interspecies art to help shape and evolve human outlooks, emotions, and actions.”
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contact: julie @ animallover.ca
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