BRUCE BARBER
Citizenship: New Zealand/ Canadian
bbarber@nscad.ns.ca

Education:
BFA (1973), MFA (1st Hons.)Auckland University Sculpture/ MA Level Art History (1975); MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1978).

Position:
Professor, Media Arts and Visual Culture Studies. NSCAD; Teaching Fellow, University Kings College (Contemporary Studies); previously taught at Auckland University and Simon Fraser University, B.C

Member:
UAAC, PCA, ASA, FSAC

Teaching:
Courses in Media Arts, Film History, Theory and Criticism, Visual Culture, Graduate Studies (NSCAD) and Contemporary Studies (University of Kings College).

Artwork:
Exhibited internationally since 1972, including: Paris Biennale 1977, Sydney Biennale 1979, The Art of Memory, The Loss of History (New Museum, NYC 1985), Resistance Anti- Baudrillard (White Columns, NYC); A Different War: Vietnam in Art curated by Lucy Lippard Travelling 1989-1992) and Memory Works: Post-Modern Impulses in Canadian Art curated by Mark Cheetham. Streaming: A Laboratory, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre,1999; Interactions Festival, Poland 2000; Post-Object and Performance Art in New Zealand 1970 and Beyond, Robert McDougall Gallery Christchurch, N.Z. 2000. Barber’s work is interdisciplinary: Reading/Writing Rooms (photo-installations, performance, video, audio and printed matter).

Books:
Essays on [Performance] and Cultural Politicisation Bruce Barber (Guest Editor and contributor) Special double issue OPEN LETTER 5th series No's 5 & 6 Summer Fall 1983, Toronto: Coachhouse Press
Bruce Barber Reading Rooms Halifax: Eye Level Publications, Halifax, 1992
Barber, Bruce, Guilbaut, Serge and O'Brian, John,(eds) Voices of Fire: Art Rage Power and The State Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1996
Bruce Barber (ed) Conceptual Art: The NSCAD Connection 1967-1973 Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, NSCAD
Forthcoming: Barber, Bruce Popular Modernisms: Art, Cartoons, Comics and Cultural In/Subordination

Criticism:
Essays, criticism, and reviews since 1972 in numerous book anthologies, journals and magazines including: Islands, FUSE, Parachute, LIVE, ACT, Splash, INTER, Borderlines, Harbour, Rewire, INKS: Studies in Cartoon and Graphic Art, New Maritimes, ARC.

Conferences:
Over 100 conference papers delivered, panels and invited lectures since 1976-

Curatorial :
Curated or co-curated six exhibitions including exchange exhibits between Halifax, Auckland, N.Z. and Halifax and Lublin, Poland and Conceptual Art: The NSCAD Connection 1967-1973 at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, N.S.