Who?
I convene with the The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver. LEARN more.
John F. Barber, PhD
Condensing substance from pixels of nuance
John Barber
A scholar-teacher-artist, John F. Barber produces media art and digital works as scholarship, for teaching, and as creative practice. This website provides information about and access to his efforts. Feel free to browse.
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
Summer 2022 Digital Humanities Summer Institute
University of Victoria, Canada. A course in Digital Storytelling for international DH faculty and graduate students. LEARN more.
Fall 2022 CMDC Courses
Language, Text, Technology
DTC 338 Special Topics: Storytelling with Sound
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.
Lyrical, haunted. 300+ manuscripts ignored by commercial publishing. LEARN more.
Radio Nouspace
Virtual listening gallery. Ongoing.
Curated radio programs, radio and sound art, and sound-based narratives. LEARN more.
Re-Imagined Radio
Radio art.
Ongoing.
Exploring radio drama past, present, and future. LEARN more.
Recent Creative Works
Lights Out Listening
Radio art. 23 Feb. 2022.
Several submissions for streamed, bi-monthly listening sessions. LEARN more.
Transects
Sound art. 4-6 Feb. 2022.
Two soundscapes exhibited at DivFuse Gallery, London, England. LEARN more.
Figurski at Findhorn on Acid
Broadcast. 17 Jan. 2022
Re-Imagined Radio episode for January. Radio adaptation of hypertext novel. LEARN more
Recent Scholarship
Book Chapter Forthcoming
Publication. Peer reviewed. 2022.
"Future Radio and Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities." Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities: Volume 2. LEARN
more.
Book Chapter Published
Publication. Peer reviewed. 2021.
“Electronic Literature and Sound.” Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities. Radio may provide models for new forms of eLit based on listening, LEARN more.
Essay Published in Resonance
Publication. Peer reviewed. 2021.
"Remembering the Dead and Say Their Names" published in media activism issue of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. LEARN more.