John Barber (artist, scholar)
John Barber is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. He is predominantly focused on sound art. Barber married Dene Grigar.
Artistic career[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "radialx2010". radialx.radiozero.pt. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ Belousov, Nikita. "radialx 2012". radialx.radiozero.pt. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ "Between Sleep and Dreams". Framework Radio. 2013. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ "OSSO" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ "JUKEBOX". AUDIOGRAFT FESTIVAL. 2017-02-22. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ "Sonic Miniatures". www.nouspace.net. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ "Barber > 11'22". www.nouspace.net. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ "Remembering the Dead: Northern Ireland". newbinarypress.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ Barber, John F. (2016-01-01). "Sound and Digital Humanities: reflecting on a DHSI course". Digital Humanities Quarterly. 10 (1).
- ^ "The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies (Hardback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
- ^ Transdisciplinary Digital Art - Sound, Vision and the New Screen | Randy Adams | Springer.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Barber, John F (2007-01-01). Richard Brautigan: essays on the writings and life. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 9780786425259. OCLC 070775692.
- ^ Barber, John F (1991-01-01). Richard Brautigan: an annotated bibliography. London: McFarland. ISBN 0899505252. OCLC 315758980.