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Annette Barbier is a media artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Although her work began in sculpture, she gradually moved through video to new technologies, including net art, installation art, virtual and augmented reality, emerging and experimental technolgies since the 1970s. She uses these new technologies to address issues of home, domesticity, and relationships with our own environment.

Barbier graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA. However, she had dropped out of college to spend a year in France which helped solidify her ideas and concepts further. Years later, a Fulbright lectureship in India with a 3 year old child confirmed the importance of travel in questioning one's conceptions about the world, and resulted in a travel diary tape.

Her work has shifted from a focus on the personal to an emphasis on the global, exploring ways in which home has come to be re-defined as populations move, as our interdependence becomes increasingly clear, and as the natural world deteriorates. Her other work uses computer-controlled laser cutting and engraving on natural materials such as leaves and feathers to heighten the viewer's awareness of our detrimental impact on the natural world. Casualties depicts birds found on the sidewalks of Chicago after colliding with glass curtain buildings, and subtractions uses Canada goose feathers as the medium for engraving the identities of extinct bird species.

Additional new work is evolving from a desire to visualize not the appearance but the meaning of our relationships with one another and with time and space using data collection technologies such as motion capture and gaze tracking.