Beth Carruthers, PhD researcher, SFU. Carruthers’ research is in the area of human-animal relations. Carruthers has successful individual histories of research-creation using digital tools with dissemination to national and international cultural venues. Carruthers’ SongBird project brought together the arts and sciences to consider relationships of humans and songbirds in shared… Read more“Beth Carruthers”
Day: February 13, 2014
Julie Andreyev
Julie Andreyev, Associate Professor, ECUAD; PhD researcher, SFU; Artistic Director, Interactive Futures. Julie Andreyev is an artist whose recent area of practice called Animal Lover (www.animallover.ca) explores animal creativity and communication through modes of interspecies collaboration and aleatoric methods, to produce interactive installation, video, social media, and performance projects. She… Read more“Julie Andreyev”
Calliope Gazetas
Calliope Gazetas
Jay White
Jay White draws from multi-day, process-based walking and camping activities to explore and imagine new relationships between human and other-than-human entities. He employs narrative and participatory strategies to translate these ephemeral experiences into material installations and video works, in the hopes of enlivening and animating objects and beings. White’s work… Read more“Jay White”
Jodey Castricano
An associate Professor in the Faculty of creative and critical studies at the University of British columbia,okanagan, Jodey Castricano teaches in the English and cultural studies programs. In English her specializations are in 19th century literature(gothic) as well as in cultural and critical theory. In the case of the latter,… Read more“Jodey Castricano”
Stephen Smith
Stephen J. Smith, Simon Fraser University
Steve Duguid
Dr. Steve Duguid, Director, Graduate Liberal Studies, SFU. An Attentive Nature: Humans and Compassion, Empathy and Care Much of the 20th century was given over to celebrating social construction, relativity and the de-bunking of ancient and modern ideas of a core ‘human nature’. Richard Rorty warned us that “…there is… Read more“Steve Duguid”