Annette Barbier

Annette Barbier (born 1950, Chicago, Illinois, United States)[1] is a Chicago-based media artist, who has been working with video art, net art, installation art, interactive performance, and emerging and experimental technologies since the 1970s.[2][3][4][5] Themes in her work address, "issues of home, defined locally as domesticity and more broadly as the ways in which we relate to our environment."[6] An early work, "Home Invasion [1995]," incorporating critical dialogue and audio is accessible on Leonardo. "Domestic space---formerly inviolable---is increasingly disrupted by electronic communication of all sorts, including radio, TV, email and the telephone." [7]

Driven by life experiences Barbier's perspective on home evolved over the years. At one point Barbier dropped out of college to spend a year in France, which was formative in making issues of home, culture and identity central to her work. Years later, a Fulbright lectureship in India with her 3-year-old daughter confirmed the importance of travel in questioning one's conceptions about the world.[8] Barbier once lived outside the city with her family on the edge of a Cook County forest preserve. This close connection to the natural environment, frequently spotting coyote, hawks, waterfowl, songbirds, and deer made a lasting impression.[9] Over time her focus has moved from an emphasis on the personal to a consideration of the global, looking at ways in which the home has come to be defined more broadly as populations shift, and as our interdependence becomes increasingly clear.[8][10]

Currently Barbier re-investigates the ways in which embodiment can facilitate the expression of an idea calling into question our relationship to the natural world using technology as a metaphor for loss. Loss of material through the destructive process of laser engraving, which removes material through burning, as compared to loss of habitat, loss of entire species, and loss of diversity in our native plants and animals[11] Barbier's current artwork addressing ideas of home and place, in contrast to natural worlds and systems "poetically makes visible a small intersection in civilization that is incredibly complex, and broken"[12] and emphasizes "vision as metaphor."[13]

Professional experience

Education

Art collaborations

In addition to her individual practice Annette Barbier has worked collaboratively through unreal-estates, Barbier's long-term collaboration with her partner Drew Browning.[14][15] Working on several project since the 1970s, unreal-estates continues to probe the potential that new technologies make available, believing that original content arises from a dialogue between an artist and a medium. In addition, this dialogue need not need not be solely between the "Artist" and the medium; authorship can be extended to the viewer, making her a participant, through instruments like microphones and video cameras, and more recently computers, biofeedback devices, dna scans, etc. Barbier and Browning have collaborated on many projects including performances, installations and their daughter, Celine.[16] They have also worked on projects investigating disability and public space.[17]

In 2012 unreal-estates and V1b3 (Video in the Built Environment) [18] received a joint grant from Propeller Fund to create a platform for a series of augmented reality [AR] public works. Cutting edge at the time, as one of the first artistic uses of augmented reality, Expose Intervene Occupy was the result, consisting in a range of artist projects that used augmented reality technology to engage critically with the Chicago public.[19][20] unreal-estates has lectured and exhibited nationally and internationally, sharing both "the joys and sorrows of working with cutting edge technologies."[21] An interview with unreal-estates was published in Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus [Fall 2010: v.06 n.02 Dynamic Coupling][22]

Select art exhibitions

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Select permanent collections

Awards

Grants

Reviews

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Annette Barbier | Video Data Bank". Vdb.org. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  2. ↑ "evl | electronic visualization laboratory". Evl.uic.edu. 2003-11-05. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  3. ↑ Waldman, Diane (2015-11-04). ""There's No Place like Home: The Paradox of Embodiment in the Work of Annette Barbier" by Machiorlatti, Jennifer A. - Afterimage, Vol. 34, Issue 3, November-December 2006 | Online Research Library". Questia.com. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  4. ↑ The Renaissance Society. "Annette Barbier". The Renaissance Society. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  5. ↑ The Renaissance Society (1987-12-15). "Video Screening: Program 2 | Events: Screening". The Renaissance Society. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  6. ↑ "Statement and Bio — Annette Barbier". Annette-barbier.squarespace.com. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  7. ↑ "Home Invasion". Leonardo.info. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  8. 1 2 "Multimedia Performances" (PDF). Leoalmanac.org. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20151117022705/http://www.imagerymotion.com/en/iArtists/annette-barbier. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 14, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ↑ Record posted by: Scott Rettberg (1999-02-22). "Annette Barbier". ELMCIP.net. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  11. 1 2 3 "Annette Barbier". Chicago Artists Coalition. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  12. ↑ "Broken: Annette Barbier's Casualties". Furtherfield.org. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  13. ↑ "Annette Barbier – WOMAN MADE GALLERY". Womanmade.org. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  14. ↑ Browning, Drew; Barbier, Annette (2007-01-04). "Browning, Drew; and Annette Barbier". Ecommons.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  15. ↑ "Web-Based Art". Livingroom.org. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  16. ↑ "Unreal-Estates.Com". Unreal-Estates.Com. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  17. ↑ stephawalker. "Site Unseen 2009: (Dis)abling Conditions | Off Broadway In Chicago". Chicagonow.com. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  18. ↑ "QR Annette Barbier". V1b3.com. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  19. ↑ "IN 2070 & New Heroes | expose, intervene, occupy". Expose-ar.com. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  20. ↑ "Expose Intervene Occupy — Annette Barbier". Annette-barbier.squarespace.com. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  21. ↑ "Identity and Virtuality: Media Artists Revisit 25 Years of Artistic Development". UANews.org. 2001-11-09. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  22. ↑ "Dialogue with Annette Barbier and Drew Browning, of Un-real Estates | NMC Media-N". Median.s151960.gridserver.com. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  23. ↑ "Things To Do" (PDF). Brushwoodcenter.org. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  24. ↑ "Facing Extinction | Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods". Brushwoodcenter.wordpress.com. 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  25. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20151117022027/http://fountainsfoundation916.org/pastparticipants/annette/. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 14, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. ↑ "Annette Barbier on Brushwood Center". YouTube. 2013-12-23. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  27. ↑ "Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art | Cornell University Library". Goldsen.library.cornell.edu. 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  28. ↑ "Ars Electronica Archiv". Archive.aec.at (in German). Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  29. ↑ Celine Browning. "Fountains Foundation @ 916 : Annette Barbier : Cycles" (PDF). Fountainsfoundations916.files.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  30. ↑ "A Room To View | NMC Media-N". Median.newmediacaucus.org. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  31. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120512201928/http://www.chicagocityarts.org/. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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