John Barber (artist, scholar)

John Barber is a digital artist and scholar based in Vancouver, Washington. He is predominantly focused on sound art.

John Barber in June 2014.

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,[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

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]

gollark: There was XLNet. Not sure what happened with that.
gollark: There are variations which improve this, but apparently they aren't suitable for text generation somehow.
gollark: The issue is that the required memory/compute scales *quadratically* with sequence length with transformers.
gollark: Probably this will improve when/if they make a GPT-4 with even more parameters and ideally some way to get around the context length limit.
gollark: I think it's kind of neat but also not hugely useful, inasmuch as it:- generates somewhat bad code, and without awareness of your preferred style and architecture- may not actually be faster than just writing the code yourself, since you have to specify things fairly precisely and filter its output for it to be any good

References
  1. "radialx2010". radialx.radiozero.pt. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  2. Belousov, Nikita. "radialx 2012". radialx.radiozero.pt. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  3. "Between Sleep and Dreams". Framework Radio. 2013. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  4. "OSSO". Osso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  5. "JUKEBOX". AUDIOGRAFT FESTIVAL. 2017-02-22. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  6. "Sonic Miniatures". www.nouspace.net. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  7. "Barber > 11'22". www.nouspace.net. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  8. "Remembering the Dead: Northern Ireland". newbinarypress.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  9. Barber, John F. (2016-01-01). "Sound and Digital Humanities: reflecting on a DHSI course". 10 (1). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. "The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies (Hardback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  11. Transdisciplinary Digital Art - Sound, Vision and the New Screen | Randy Adams | Springer.
  12. 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.
  13. Barber, John F (2007-01-01). Richard Brautigan: essays on the writings and life. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 9780786425259.
  14. Barber, John F (1991-01-01). Richard Brautigan: an annotated bibliography. London: McFarland. ISBN 0899505252.
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