Annette Barbier Explained

Annette Louise Barbier (September 29, 1950 – June 5, 2017)[1] [2] was an American artist and educator. She worked with video art, net art, installation art, interactive performance, and emerging and experimental technologies since the 1970s.[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 from Leonardo. "Domestic space—formerly inviolable—is increasingly disrupted by electronic communication of all sorts, including radio, TV, email and the telephone."[7] She was Chicago-based.

Early life and education

Barbier was born and grew up in Hegewisch in Chicago.[8] She graduated from Francis de Sales High School. Barbier attended the University of Illinois at Chicago and received her bachelor's degree in 1974 in Plastic and Graphic Art. In 1977, she received a MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

Career

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.[9] 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.[10] 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.[9] [11]

In her late work, Barbier re-investigated 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, is compared to loss of habitat, loss of entire species, and loss of diversity in our native plants and animals. Barbier's 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]

Teaching

Barbier joined the faculty as an associate professor at Northwestern University in the Department of Radio/TV/Film in 1982, where she stayed until 2005. In 2005, she joined Columbia College Chicago in the Department of Interactive Arts and Media, where she remained until 2012 and left as a professor emeritus.

Art collaborations

In addition to her individual practice Annette Barbier has worked collaboratively through unreal-estates, her 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]

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Select permanent collections

Awards

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: June 11, 2017. Annette Barbier, 1950 - 2017. Chicago Tribune.
  2. Web site: Annette Barbier | Video Data Bank . Vdb.org . 2016-02-21.
  3. Web site: evl | electronic visualization laboratory . Evl.uic.edu . 2003-11-05 . 2016-02-21.
  4. Web site: The Renaissance Society . Annette Barbier . The Renaissance Society . 2016-02-21.
  5. Web site: The Renaissance Society . Video Screening: Program 2 | Events: Screening . The Renaissance Society . 1987-12-15 . 2016-02-21.
  6. Web site: Statement and Bio — Annette Barbier . Annette-barbier.squarespace.com . 2016-02-21.
  7. Web site: Home Invasion . . 2016-02-21.
  8. Web site: Megan. Graydon. Annette Barbier, video and digital artist, dies at 66. live. 2021-05-01. Chicago Tribune. https://web.archive.org/web/20170615232745/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-annette-barbier-obituary-20170615-story.html . 2017-06-15 .
  9. Web site: Multimedia Performances . Leoalmanac.org . 2016-02-21.
  10. Web site: Annette Barbier. iMAGERY MOTION . November 14, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117022705/http://www.imagerymotion.com/en/iArtists/annette-barbier . November 17, 2015 .
  11. Web site: Record posted by: Scott Rettberg . Annette Barbier . ELMCIP.net . 1999-02-22 . 2016-02-21.
  12. Web site: Broken: Annette Barbier's Casualties . Furtherfield.org . 27 September 2014. 2016-02-21.
  13. Web site: Annette Barbier – WOMAN MADE GALLERY . Womanmade.org . 2016-02-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160220163401/http://womanmade.org/annette-barbier/ . 2016-02-20 .
  14. Web site: Browning, Drew. Barbier, Annette . Browning, Drew; and Annette Barbier . Ecommons.cornell.edu . 2007-01-04 . 2016-02-21.
  15. Web site: Web-Based Art . Livingroom.org . 2016-02-21.
  16. Web site: Unreal-Estates.Com . Unreal-Estates.Com . 2016-02-21.
  17. Web site: stephawalker . Site Unseen 2009: (Dis)abling Conditions | Off Broadway In Chicago . Chicagonow.com . 2016-02-21.
  18. Web site: QR Annette Barbier . V1b3.com . 2014-06-20 . 2016-02-21.
  19. Web site: IN 2070 & New Heroes | expose, intervene, occupy . Expose-ar.com . 2016-02-21.
  20. Web site: Expose Intervene Occupy — Annette Barbier . Annette-barbier.squarespace.com . 2016-02-21.
  21. Web site: Identity and Virtuality: Media Artists Revisit 25 Years of Artistic Development . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117023341/http://uanews.org/story/identity-and-virtuality-media-artists-revisit-25-years-of-artistic-development . usurped . November 17, 2015 . UANews.org . 2001-11-09 . 2016-02-21.
  22. Web site: Dialogue with Annette Barbier and Drew Browning, of Un-real Estates | NMC Media-N . Median.s151960.gridserver.com . 2016-02-21.
  23. Book: Cates, Jon. Chicago New Media, 1973-1992. University of Illinois Press. 2018. 978-0-252-08407-2. Chicago, Illinois. 9.
  24. News: 'Chicago New Media 1973-1992' pays tribute to the city's contribution to video games and digital art. Picard. Caroline. November 29, 2018. Chicago Reader. September 25, 2019.
  25. Web site: Annette Barbier . Chicago Artists Coalition . 2016-02-21.
  26. Web site: Things To Do . Brushwoodcenter.org . 2016-02-21.
  27. Web site: Facing Extinction | Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods . Brushwoodcenter.wordpress.com . 2014-03-08 . 2016-02-21.
  28. Web site: Video Retrospective by Annette Barbier. fountains foundations 916. November 14, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117022027/http://fountainsfoundation916.org/pastparticipants/annette/ . November 17, 2015 .
  29. Web site: Annette Barbier on Brushwood Center . YouTube . 2013-12-23 . 2016-02-21.
  30. Web site: Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art | Cornell University Library . Goldsen.library.cornell.edu . 2008-02-08 . 2016-02-21.
  31. Web site: Ars Electronica Archiv . de . Archive.aec.at . 2016-02-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121127121203/http://archive.aec.at/ . 2012-11-27 . dead .
  32. Web site: Fountains Foundation @ 916 : Annette Barbier : Cycles . Celine Browning . Fountainsfoundations916.files.wordpress.com . 2016-02-21.
  33. Web site: A Room To View | NMC Media-N . Median.newmediacaucus.org . 24 March 2013. 2016-02-21.

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