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Scholar-teacher-artist, John F. Barber, produces media art and digital works as scholarship, for teaching, and as creative practice. This website provides information and access about my efforts. Feel free to browse.
Who?
I convene with the The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver. LEARN more.
What?
I work in Digital Humanities, literary media art, and radio and sound art. LEARN more.
How?
Action research+creative practice reveals tacit knowledge that theoretical studies alone cannot. LEARN more.
Scholarship
Traditional and new media scholarly, research, and other endeavors. International and national. Peer reviewed / juried / curator selected. LEARN more
Teaching
Fall 2020 CMDC Courses
Language, Text, Technology
Usability and Interface Design
Digital Humanities Institute
University of Victoria, Canada. Two courses annually as service for international DH faculty and graduate students. LEARN more.
Creative
International radio art broadcasts, sound art installations, performances, and more. Peer reviewed / juried / curator selected. LEARN more
Research Projects
American Dust
Bibliographic archive. Ongoing.
GIHUGANTIC information resource for Richard Brautigan's life and writings. LEARN more.
The Brautigan Library
Curated manuscripts. Ongoing.
Unwanted, lyrical, haunted. 300+ manuscripts outside commercial publishing interests. LEARN more.
Radio Nouspace
Virtual listening gallery. Ongoing.
Curated old time radio programs, radio+sound art, and sound-based narratives. LEARN more.
Re-Imagined Radio
Radio art. Ongoing.
Curated live radio drama performances as never before seen, or heard. LEARN more.
Recent Creative Works
Remembering the Dead
Multimedia art. Juried. 2019
International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Park City, Utah, 20-23 Nov. LEARN more.
Sound Spheres
Sound art. Juried. 2019
ACM Hypertext Conference & Institute of Information Systems, Hof University, Hof, Germany, 17-20 Sept. LEARN more.
Sound Spheres
Sound art. Juried. 2019
Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Art Festival, Cork, Ireland, 15-17 July. LEARN more.
Recent Scholarship
Presentation at ELO 2019
Presentation. Peer reviewed. 2019.
"eLit User Experience: Audience+Purpose=Design" presented at Electronic Literature Organization 2019 conference. LEARN more.
Presentation at SpokenWeb
Presentation. Peer reviewed. 2019.
"A Mighty Span," an imagined radio broadcast of historical events, presented at SpokenWeb, Vancouver, Canada. LEARN more.
Essay Published in LEA
Publication. Peer reviewed. 2019.
"Martians, Moustaches, and Radio Drama" was published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac. Print publication to follow. LEARN more.