{"id":5289,"date":"2023-11-08T14:30:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novamondo-dev.de\/hias\/?post_type=fellow&p=5289"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:37:24","slug":"stephen-barber","status":"publish","type":"fellow","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/fellow\/stephen-barber\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Barber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Stephen Barber is Professor of Art History at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London. He has received many awards for his research projects, from the DAAD and Gerda Henkel Stiftung, as well as from the Leverhulme Trust and British Academy in the UK, from the Japan Foundation and Daiwa Foundation in Japan, and the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Program), Getty Foundation and Paul Mellon Centre in the USA. He was a Fellow of the K\u00e4te Hamburger Centre \u2018Interweaving Performance Cultures\u2019 at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin from 2012-15. His recent books include The Projectionists: Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image<\/em> (Diaphanes, 2020), Film\u2019s Ghosts<\/em> (Diaphanes, 2019) and Berlin Bodies: Anatomising the Streets of the City<\/em> (Reaktion Books, 2018). He is Co-Director of Kingston University\u2019s Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, which incorporates the personal archive of the photographic innovator Eadweard Muybridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His current research interests are in transformations in contemporary urban space, and the responses of artists and filmmakers to the challenges and dilemmas those transformations raise, alongside research interests spanning moving image, performance and photographic cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His research monograph project at HIAS concerns urban wastelands. It is intended to generate an in-depth account of the past, contemporary and potential future forms of wastelands. It proposes that wastelands \u2013 as well as being urban indicators of ecological disintegration \u2013 also offer the unique opportunity to reconfigure conceptions of urban space in innovative new ways, through wastelands\u2019 imaginative potential as sites for art, film, performance, activist interventions and gatherings of displaced communities. It is intended to be undertaken in close collaboration with researchers and artists in Hamburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His collaboration partner is Ute Berns, Professor for British Studies at the University of Hamburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Barber\u2019s HIAS Fellowship is funded by the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ute Berns<\/a>, Professor for British Studies at the University of Hamburg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Title: Into the Wastelands, \u00a9 Photo by Stephen Barber<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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11\/18\/2022, Panel at \u201cHamburger Horizonte\u201d: Freedom in arts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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