Stephen Barber
Position
Professorial Research Fellow
Research Interests
Contemporary urban cultures
Experimental film and performance art
Digital art
Contemporary Japanese culture
Cinema architectures
Archival forms
Introduction
Stephen Barber holds a PhD from the University of London, supervised by Professor Malcolm Bowie, on Antonin Artaud's sound-art experiments of 1947-48. He has previously held posts at Sussex University, the University of Tokyo, the Berlin University of the Arts, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, the Keio University Research Centre for Art in Tokyo, and the California Institute of the Arts, where he was a Visiting Professor in 2007-8. He has been a Professor since 2002.
Stephen has received numerous awards and prizes for his research, from such foundations and funding bodies as the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy and the London Arts Board, in the UK; the Rockefeller Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Annenberg Foundation, in the USA; the DAAD-Programm in Germany; the Japan Foundation, the Daiwa Foundation, and the Saison Foundation, in Japan.
Stephen has received numerous awards and prizes for his research