John Barber (artist, scholar)

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John Barber in June 2014.

John Barber is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. He is predominantly focused on sound art. Barber married Dene Grigar.

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Artistic career

Barber's sound art has been featured in a number of international festivals and exhibitions.

In 2010, Sounds of My Life featured at Lisbon's annual RadiaLx International Festival of Radio Art, [1] and event to which Barber's work returned in 2012 with Tell Me A Story. [2] In 2013, Between Sleep and Dreams was included in events across Canada, Estonia, [3] and Portugal. [4] In 2017, Barber's work was included in the Audiograft International Festival of Experimental Music and Sound hosted by Oxford Brookes University [5] [6] and Brazil's Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica. [7]

In 2017, New Binary Press published Remembering the Dead: Northern Ireland, [8] which pays tribute to those killed during "the Troubles".

Scholarship

As a scholar of media art and digital storytelling, Barber has been published in a range of journals and academic volumes, including Digital Humanities Quarterly , [9] The Mobile Story, [10] and Transdisciplinary Digital Art. [11]

In 2001, he co-edited New worlds, new words: Exploring Pathways for Writing about and in Electronic Environments with Dene Grigar, [12] while he has also edited a book and completed an annotated bibliography on Richard Brautigan. [13] [14]

References

  1. ↑ "radialx2010". radialx.radiozero.pt. Archived from the original on November 6, 2013. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  2. ↑ Belousov, Nikita. "radialx 2012". radialx.radiozero.pt. Archived from the original on November 6, 2013. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  3. ↑ "Between Sleep and Dreams". Framework Radio. 2013. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  4. ↑ "OSSO" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  5. ↑ "JUKEBOX". AUDIOGRAFT FESTIVAL. 2017-02-22. Archived from the original on 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  6. ↑ "Sonic Miniatures". www.nouspace.net. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  7. ↑ "Barber > 11'22". www.nouspace.net. Archived from the original on 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  8. ↑ "Remembering the Dead: Northern Ireland". newbinarypress.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  9. ↑ Barber, John F. (2016-01-01). "Sound and Digital Humanities: reflecting on a DHSI course". Digital Humanities Quarterly. 10 (1).
  10. ↑ "The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies (Hardback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  11. ↑ Transdisciplinary Digital Art - Sound, Vision and the New Screen | Randy Adams | Springer.
  12. ↑ Barber, John F; Grigar, Dene (2001-01-01). New worlds, new words: exploring pathways for writing about and in electronic environments. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press. ISBN   1572733330. OCLC   45603936.
  13. ↑ Barber, John F (2007-01-01). Richard Brautigan: essays on the writings and life. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN   9780786425259. OCLC   070775692.
  14. ↑ Barber, John F (1991-01-01). Richard Brautigan: an annotated bibliography. London: McFarland. ISBN   0899505252. OCLC   315758980.
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