John F. Barber | Leonardo

John F. Barber

Within his research interest areas of electronic archiving, interface design, and information architecture, Barber has published chapters focusing on the use of mediated, electronic environments as sites for meaningful human interaction in Texts and Technology, The Online Writing Classroom, Electronic Networks, High Wired, and Studies in Technical Communication; articles in print journals like Readerly Writerly Text, Works and Days, and Pre/Text; and articles in electronic journals like Leonardo Digital Reviews, Fine Art Forum, and Kairos. Barber is Developer and Curator of Brautigan Bibliography and Archive, an interactive information structure noted as the preeminent resource on the life and work of Richard Brautigan. Generating from his archival work are Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life, an anthology of essays about Brautigan's writings, life, and place in American literature, as well as entries regarding Brautigan in the Encyclopedia of Beat Literature.

Online Reviews

Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle, Editors
August 2021
October 2020
by Alan Licht
March 2020
November 2019
by Damon Krukowski
October 2019
David Cateforis, Steven Duval, and Shepherd Steiner, Editors
September 2019
Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien, Editors
January 2019
December 2018
by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub
September 2018
by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder
August 2018
by Caleb Kelly
December 2017
December 2017

Journal Articles

Leonardo Reviews

Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers: Writers on Comics edited by Sean Howe. Pantheon Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2004. 228 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-375-42256-0.

October 2006
Leonardo Reviews

The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga by Jimmy Maher. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. 344 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-01720-6

April 2013
Leonardo Reviews

Sound Art Revisited

October 2020
Leonardo Reviews

YLEM Journal Special Issue: Science Fiction and Its Discontents edited by Loren Means. YLEM, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 2006. Volume 25, Nos. 10 and 12. ISSN: 1507-2031

April 2007
Leonardo Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2012. 624 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-01-953-8894-7

June 2013
Leonardo Reviews

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects

April 2021
Leonardo Reviews

Anime Explosion: The What? Why? Wow! of Japanese Animation by Patrick Drazen. Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2003. 382 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 1-880656-72-8

August 2007
Leonardo Reviews

Missions for Thoughtful Gamers by Andrew Cutting. ETC Press, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., 2011. 204 pp. Trade, free download. ISBN-13: 978-1-257-97970-7

October 2013
Leonardo Reviews

American Steam Locomotives: Design and Development, 1880–1960

April 2021
Leonardo Reviews

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Ann Finkbeiner. Viking, New York, 2006. 304 pp. Trade. ISBN: 0-670-03489-4

October 2007
Leonardo Reviews

Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel by Paul Scheerbart. Wakefield Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. Originally published in German, 1913. 280 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 976-0-9841155-9-4

February 2014
Leonardo Reviews

Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn. Adbusters Media Foundation, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2006. 416 pp., 420 illus. Cloth. ISBN: 0-9746800-9-5

April 2008
Leonardo Reviews

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds by Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce and T.L. Taylor. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2012. 264 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-691-14950-9; ISBN: 978-0-691-14951-6

April 2014
Leonardo Reviews

The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States by Carla Yanni. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2007. 191 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN 10: 0-8166-4940-5

August 2008
Leonardo Reviews

In the Field: The Art of Field Recording edited by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle. Uniformbooks, Axminister, U.K., 2013. 240 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-9568559-6-1

April 2014
Leonardo Reviews

Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance edited by Judith Rugg and Michèle Sedgwick. Intellect, Bristol, U.K., 2007. 184 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-1-84150-162-8

April 2009
Reviews

On Listening

February 2015
Leonardo Reviews

The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid That Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse by Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2007. 320 pp., illus. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-262-12294-8

April 2009
Reviews

Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording

June 2015
Leonardo Reviews

The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics edited by Melanie Swalwell and Jason Wilson. McFarland Company, Jefferson, NC, U.S.A., 2008. 197 pp., illus.

October 2009
Leonardo Reviews

Gallery Sound

October 2018
Leonardo Reviews

Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice edited by Cathy Lane. CRiSAP, London, U.K., 2008. 205 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-9558273-3-4

October 2010
Leonardo Reviews

Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music

October 2018
Leonardo Reviews

Sonic Mediations: Body Sound Technology edited by Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., 2008. 286 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 1-84718-483-9

June 2010
Reviews

Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America

April 2019
Leonardo Reviews

Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks by Alexander Russo. Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC, 2010. 278 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4532-9

April 2011
Reviews

Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design

June 2019
Leonardo Reviews

Cyberculture and New Media edited by Francisco J. Ricardo. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009. 312 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-90-420-2518-9

February 2011
Reviews

Introduction to Graphic Design: A Guide to Thinking, Process, and Style

June 2019
Leonardo Reviews

Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki. PAJ Publications, New York, U.S.A., 2011. 200 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-155554151-4

June 2012
Leonardo Reviews

High Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres and the Object Hereafter

October 2019
Leonardo Reviews

How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2011. 192 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-8166-7646-0; ISBN: 978-0-8166-7647-7

October 2012
Leonardo Reviews

Hybrid Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology in the Long 1960s

June 2020
Leonardo Reviews

Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids by Sidney Perkowitz. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 2004. 238 pp. Trade. ISBN: 0-309-08987-5

April 2005
Leonardo Reviews

Radio: Essays in Bad Reception by John Mowitt. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2011. 248 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-5202-7049-7; ISBN: 978-05202-7050-3

February 2013
Leonardo Reviews

Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City

June 2020

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