Serena Zahler, Student (Communication and Art Departments)
Pet: Dog
I have always done a lot of experimentation with animals. I used to breed freshwater fish when I was young and our family business always enabled me to satisfy my curiosities about ocean dwellers. My father's business is a custom aquarium design, installation, and maintenance company; www.ageofaquariums.biz. My dad loved fish and continued his passion after graduating UCSB and passed this interest on to me. Having tanks in our garage with all varieties of salt and freshwater fish, octopi, turtles, sharks, and many types of corals and reef dwellers. Today, his retail store has black tip sharks and propagated corals (that aren't harvested from the ocean). I would love to collaborate with these animals on direct and more indirect levels. I think my unique experience will lend itself to thinking "outside the box" when it comes to collaborating with other species.


PROJECTS

04/13/10 20:50:48 Ideas for Collaboration

04/29/10 14:25:36 Mud Painting
  05/24/10 17:08:58 - Pot Belly Pig Mud Painting

04/29/10 14:43:41 In Honor of Bunny

05/24/10 17:54:59 Conscious Gaze

06/03/10 16:26:17 Giving Back to Gain More
  06/06/10 16:50:59 - Interspecies Collaboration Exhibition

06/06/10 16:58:41 Dolphin Performance
TEXTS

Other: Interspecies Relationships
Baker Discussion 4/20

Reflection: Other Related Research
Blue Crane Bike Path Experience

Other: Interspecies Communication
Chapter 10

Reflection: Animal Communication
Communication using Barbara Janell's Tips

Other: Interspecies Communication
Dolphin Mysteries: Unlocking the Secrets of Communication Chapter 5 & 6

Other: History/Philosophy - Relationship Human/Non-Human
Fear of the Familiar

Reflection: Interspecies Relationships
Lil Orphan Hammies Trip
On Grizzly People Movies and Letters from Charlie text
Santa Cruz Island Adventure

Other: Art Made Together with Non-Human Animals
The Man Who Talks to Whales Chapter 1 and 4

Other: Interspecies Relationships
"Baker Discussion 4/20"
Resources

Video: Speciesism and Animal Rights
Unknown Collaboration: Viruses By Nathan Wolfe

Video: Non-Art Interspecies Collaborations
Potty Trained Pigs Keep Rivers Clean By Chang Chung-tou

Art: Art Made for Non-Human Animals
Tera Galanti: Wings By Tera Galanti

Art: Non-Ordinary and Metaphorical Collaborations with Animals
Intelligent Design Exhibition By multiple artists exhibition