John Barber is a digital artist and scholar based in

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. He is predominantly focused on

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. Barber married

Dene Grigar Dene (Rudyne) 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' ...

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 by

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and Brazil's Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica. In 2017, New Binary Press published ''Remembering the Dead: Northern Ireland'', which pays tribute to those killed during "

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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 ''

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'', ''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

, while he has also edited a book and completed an annotated bibliography on

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barber, John Living people American digital artists People from Vancouver, Washington Year of birth missing (living people) American electronic literature writers Electronic literature critics