Alexandra Philips, Associate Professor, ECUAD. Phillips’ practice focuses on the merging of art and anthropology. Her research in anthropology examined the New Age appropriation of Native American spiritual practices, the role of comedy in social regeneration, and issues in representation. Her work has been exhibited across the US and Canada…. Read more
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Sandra Semchuk
Sandra Semchuk, Associate Professor, ECUAD. Sandra is a storyteller, photographer and video artist whose inquiry includes small animals that constantly count “coup” on her, coming close enough to make it impossible for her to video them. Her collaborations and video works use autobiography and dialogue as the basis for recognition… Read more
Mimi Gellman
Mimi Gellman, Associate Professor, ECUAD; PhD researcher, Queen’s University. Gellman’s current work involves looking at the relationship between Indigenous mapping and Indigenous “ways of knowing.” Gellman’s public art work “Invisible Rivers” in Toronto investigates animals and the environment by taking the scenery of the waterways and placing it above ground,… Read more
Martha Ladly
Dr. Martha Ladly, GRAND PNI, Associate Dean Graduate Studies, OCAD Ladly specializes in media and technology in art and design. She is a senior researcher with the Mobile Experience Lab and a Network Investigator with GRAND NCE. Ladly held the Chair of the OCADU Research Ethics Board (2008-2011), and was… Read more
Heesoon Bai
Dr. Heesoon Bai, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, SFU. Bai’s current research interests cluster around examining and deconstructing ontological and epistemological assumptions behind our cultural practices consisting of unsustainable life habits and choices that are having an increasingly detrimental effect on the contemporary world. In her publications, the philosophical analysis… Read more
Nancy Holmes
Nancy Holmes, Associate Professor, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan. “Eco Cultures” is an initiative at UBCO lead by Holmes and Castricano combining scholarly research and research-creation about ecological issues. Eco Art Incubator (SSHRC funded) lead by Nancy Holmes at UBCO is an umbrella under which students and… Read more
Dr. Alexsandra Dulic
Dr. Alexsandra Dulic, Director, Centre for Culture and Technology, UBC Okanagan. Dr. Aleksandra Dulic is an internationally recognized media artist and scholar working at the intersections of multimedia and live performance with research foci in computational poetics and cross-cultural media performance. Her research involves the development of learning context and… Read more
Dr. Leesa Fawcett
Dr. Leesa Fawcett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Fawcett currently researches animal agency, and investigates natural history at the intersection of feminist science and technology studies, and human and political ecology. Her earliest ethological work addresses human-animal conflicts —humpback whales caught in fishing gear. Her later work… Read more
Beth Carruthers
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
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