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