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Annette Barbier Annette Barbier is a Chicago-based media artist, working in video, net art, installation, and interactive performance.[1] Barbier received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She directed at the Center for Art and Technology at Northwestern University. She now chairs the Interactive Arts and Media Department at Columbia College, Chicago, where she teaches new media theory and practice.[2]

Exhibitions Annette Barbier has exhibited at galleries nationally and internationally, including the American Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York; ARS Electronica Center in Austria; and the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.[3] She has performed at media festivals in Dallas, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle, and at international exhibitions in Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, and Vietnam. [4] Annette Barbier was an invited artist at the International Digital Media and Arts Association conference in October, as well as having two works (in collaboration with Drew Browning) in the IDEAS art exhibit. Barbier’s work has received recognition in venues including the Chicago International Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, Women in the Director’s Chair, Image Union, broadcast on WTTW Chicago, the Houston Film Festival, The Learning Channel, and the San Paolo Video Festival. More recent work has been shown in new media festivals and in galleries and international conference exhibitions such as the International Digital Media and Art (best of show 2005, featured artist 2011), International Symposium on Electronic Art, the College Art Association, and Ars Electronica. [5]

Awards and Recognition Annette Barbier was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1988.[6] She has also received numerous grants from organizations such as the Illinois Arts Council, the Propeller Fund, Faculty Research Grants at Columbia College and Northwestern University, and the NEA. She has received awards from the University Film and Video Association, the International Digital Media and Arts Association, FILE, Houston Worldfest, the Chicago International Film Festival. Her work has been reviewed in Media-N, the Journal of the New Media Caucus, After Image, the Journal of South Asian Cinema, the New Art Examiner and the Village Voice.[7]