electrodiva id’s
October 17, 2007
Head Diva:
Julie Andreyev is an artist whose practice explores: the social and spatial character of the city using mobility and performance; and animal consciousness through interactive installation and video. Her work has been shown across Canada, in the US, Europe and Japan at venues such as: Viper Festival Basel; SIGGRAPH; ISEA; Media Arts Festival, Tokyo; Elektra Festival, Montreal. 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 in Digital and Interactive Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. Andreyev is Artistic Director of Interactive Futures 09: Stereo. The most recent projects, produced under the area of practice called Animal Lover examines animals and their methods of communication as creative beings uniquely distinct from humans.
Web Diva
As a new media installation artist, Webster’s practice is concerned with exploring and critiquing the ways in which technologies, specifically but not solely digital technologies, impact and shape our experiences of being human. In particular, Suzi is excited by the possibilities offered by digital media to create work that is collaborative, responsive and dynamic, rather than fixed and static, and that undermines traditional fine art distinctions based on medium specificity.
DIVA Diva:
Dr. Carol Gigliotti (http://www.carolgiglotti.net), a writer, educator, and artist, is an Associate Professor in Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University (ECU) in Vancouver, BC., Canada where she teaches Environmental Ethics, Critical Animal Studies and Interactive Media courses. She has been involved in new media, and writing about ethics and technology, since 1990 and publishes and presents extensively.
Her edited book, Leonardo’s Choice: genetic technologies and animals which grew out of the January 2006 special issue of the Springer_Verlag journal AI and Society, “Genetic Technologies and Animals.” is forthcoming from the Bioethics/Applied Philosophy Area of Springer in September 2009. The book will include her essay, “Leonardo’s choice: the ethics of artists working with genetic technologies”, and essays by philosopher Steven Best, literary theorist Susan McHugh, feminist biologist Lynda Birke and a dialogue between Gigliotti and cultural theorist, Steve Baker. Other recent published essays include: “Sustaining Creativity and the Loss of the Wild” In M. Alexenberg (ed.) Educating Artists in a Digital Age: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture (2008), Bristol, UK: Intellect Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Gigliotti, C. (2005) “Artificial Life and the Lives of the Non-human” Parachute 119: 06 (05). A revised version of this essay was published in the Spring 2009 Issue of ANTENNAE along with an interview with Gigliotti.
She is is continuing to work on the book Wildness and Technology: creativity and animal life begun during her Sabbatical from ECU for the school year 2007-2008.
