School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

I joined Portsmouth November 2006, and lecture on various aspects of Media Studies. My specialist subjects are New Media, Cyberculture, Cybersexualities and Digital Futures. I am interested in notions of creativity and interdisciplinarity, and exploring approaches to theory and practice. I also continue to follow traditional Fine Art practice with ongoing paintings, drawings, installations and film making as well as continuing writing articles on research. My early Fine Art degree installation using Virtual Reality to explore sexuality is cited by Professor Steve Dixon(2007) in Digital Performance: A History of New Media Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. MA USA. MIT Press. I have lectured and broadcast world wide for the past 20 years on my interests.

Current Research^{[Back to top]}

I am currently seeking funding to complete an exploration of ‘polymedia’ and the development of innovative user-generated content.  This will include exploring further notions and uses of Virtual space,  mobile content  and online streaming; as well as investigating  ‘Mash-Ups’ and social networking within ongoing ‘live and real’ off-line  time-based interaction. It is hoped that this interdisciplinary work will be disseminated through various media platforms and publishing.

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

Barber, T. (In preparation). Sexy-Tech leisure and DIY pleasure:  upskirting, downblousing and other deviant hobbies. In J. Rutter & M. Vanden Abeele (Eds), New technologies and the changing landscapes of leisure (pp. 00-00).

Publications

Journal Articles^{[Back to top]}

Barber, T. (2004). Deviation as key to innovation: understanding a culture of the future. Foresight Journal, 6(3), 141-152.

Winner of the ‘Award for Excellence: Outstanding Paper’ by the Literati Club, Emerald Publishing (2005).

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

Barber, T. (2010). Virtual identity and explorations of sexuality: ’Stephanie is Wired: who shall turn him on?’. In C. Pullen & M. Cooper (Eds.), LGBT identity and new online media (pp. 231-243). New York: Routledge.

Barber, T. (2009). Kinky Borgs and sexy robots: the fetish, fashion and discipline of Seven of Nine. In Geraghty L. (Ed) Chaneling the future: key science fiction and fantasy television texts (pp. 133-148). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Barber, T. (2004). A pleasure prophesy: predictions for the sex tourist of the future.  In D. Waskul (Ed.), Net/SeXXX: sex pornography and the internet (pp. 323-336). New York: Peter Lang.

Barber, T. (1999). Virtual mentalities, sexual physicalities. In D. Wood (Ed.), Body probe: mutating physical boundaries (pp. 186-189). London: Creation Books.

Conference Papers^{[Back to top]}

Barber, T., Cooke, H. & Woodroffe, E. (2009). CDPT Mash-up 360. A cauldron of creativity: outcomes from the University of Portsmouth event. In E. Hemmungs-Wirtén & M. Ryman (Eds.), Mashing-up culture: the rise of user-generated content. Proceedings from the COUNTER workshop Mashing-up culture, Uppsala University, May 13-14, 2009 (pp. 42-60). Uppsala: Uppsala University/COUNTER.

Barber, T. (2004a). ‘Intel inside’: exploring the innovative predilections of ‘Master R’. Journal of sexual and relationship therapy, 19(Supplement 1), S61.

Book Reviews^{[Back to top]}

Barber T. (2008). Review of M. Whitty, A. Baker & J. Inman Online Matchmaking. Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=532&BookID=386

Barber, T. (2004). Review of R. Baker, Sex in the future: the reproductive revolution and how it will change us. Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=268&BookID=226

Creative Practice^{[Back to top]}

Creative Digital Practice and Theory (CDPT) Mash-up 360: Instigator and collaborator of 3 day multi-media and interdisciplinary research ‘interactive/event/happening’. (2009) Space Gallery Portsmouth University. Link courtesy of Baz Hobbs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_mjwJTPc4c

LocalLocalTV. Founder member of experimental online ‘TV’ to encourage collaboration, participation and creativity. (2005 – ongoing) http://www.lltv.co.uk/index.html

Artist Residencies: National Power (Fawley Power Station), Southampton Hospital (Medicine One Asthma Research), Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Southampton University (Morphology Laboratories).

Exhibitions include: VR Users Show: 1000Lakeside Portsmouth; Wisdom Hospice Rochester Kent; Kent Adult Education Authority; London: Coventry Gallery, Lethaby Gallery, Torture Garden, Central Saint Martins’ College of Art and The Sex Maniacs’ Ball; Southampton: Millais Gallery.

Professional Memberships^{[Back to top]}

Fellow, Higher Education Academy

Fellow, Royal Society for the Arts