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John Barber is a digital artist and scholar based in
John Barber is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, located in Clark County. Incorporated in 1857, Vancouver has a population of 190,915 as of the 2020 census, making it the fourth-largest city in Was ...
. He is predominantly focused on sound art
Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art ...
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Barber married Dene Grigar
Dene Grigar is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. She was the President of the Electronic Literature Organization from 2013 to 2019. In 2016, Grigar received the International Digital Media and Arts Association's Lifetime ...
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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, and event to which Barber's work returned in 2012 with ''Tell Me A Story''. In 2013, ''Between Sleep and Dreams'' was included in events across Canada, Estonia, and Portugal. In 2017, Barber's work was included in the Audiograft International Festival of Experimental Music and Sound hosted byOxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University (formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic (United Kingdom), Polytechnic) is a public university, public university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and High ...
and Brazil's Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica.
In 2017, New Binary Press
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published ''Remembering the Dead: Northern Ireland'', which pays tribute to those killed during "the Troubles
The Troubles ( ga, Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an "i ...
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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
''Digital Humanities Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. The journal is also a community experiment in journal publication.
The journal is funded and published by the ...
'', ''The Mobile Story,'' and ''Transdisciplinary Digital Art.''
In 2001, he co-edited ''New worlds, new words: Exploring Pathways for Writing about and in Electronic Environments'' with Dene Grigar
Dene Grigar is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. She was the President of the Electronic Literature Organization from 2013 to 2019. In 2016, Grigar received the International Digital Media and Arts Association's Lifetime ...
, while he has also edited a book and completed an annotated bibliography on Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four bo ...
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