Tiffany E Barber
Biographic Data
| ID | 4017473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tiffany E Barber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tiffany E |
| FAMILY NAME | Barber |
| SIGNATURE | BARBER T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Under cover
Ja'Tovia Gary's Superlative Surrealism
Throughout her œuvre, multidisciplinary artist Ja'Tovia Gary uses artifices unique to surrealism to foreground the aesthetic and political value of Black womanhood against the backdrop of ongoing racial and gender violence in the United States. This essay examines the ways in which her automatic writing, deployments of collage strategies, and of doubling and camouflage also place Black female embodiment at the center of surrealist practice, bridg…
An OutKast Reader
Art History as Black Study
Narcissister, a Truly Kinky Artist
Narcissister, Red Riding Hood, 2014, mixed media (photograph provided by the artist)Drawing on the myth of Narcissus and the transgressive perversity it inspires, New York–based performance artist
Years of Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Thought
A Conversation with Salamishah Tillet
Beyoncé, as this Close-Up suggests, figures prominently in the global imaginary. Her status as a celebrity and icon, and her influence on changing notions of feminism and black womanhood, are located at the convergence of art and politics. In this conversation, Tiffany E. Barber and Salamishah Tillet discuss the performer's popularity, her performances of blackness and black womanhood, how she imagines the post-civil rights South in her work, and…
Between Disgust And Regeneration
Between Disgust And Regeneration: Tiffany E. Barber (bio), Angela Naimou (bio), and Wangechi Mutu (bio) Nairobi-born, New York-based artist WANGECHI MUTU makes fantastic worlds inhabited by mythological creatures and cyborgs. In her contribution to the 2015 Venice Biennale, curated by OKWUI ENWEZOR, Mutu presented three new works across a range of media—a three-channel animated video, a sculptural installation, and a large-scale collage—in a room…
In Media Res
Research Article| July 01 2016 In Media Res: A Conversation with Philip Mallory Jones Tiffany E. Barber Tiffany E. Barber TIFFANY E. BARBER is a scholar, curator, and writer on twentieth- and twentyfirst-century visual art and performance, with a focus on artists of the black diaspora living and working in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2016) 44 (1-2): 23–29. https://doi.or…
Response to Paul Kaiser's Letter to the Editor
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Ghostcatching and After Ghostcatching , Dances in the Dark
In 1999, Bill T. Jones, in collaboration with digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar, presented an installation at the intersection of dance, drawing, and digital imaging. Ghostcatching featured Jones's previously improvised movements recorded using motion capture technology. In 2010, Kaiser, Eshkar, and Marc Downie of the OpenEndedGroup revised Ghostcatching into a new piece titled After Ghostcatching , composed of unused sequences of Jo…
Ghostcatching and After Ghostcatching , Dances in the Dark
In 1999, Bill T. Jones, in collaboration with digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar, presented an installation at the intersection of dance, drawing, and digital imaging. Ghostcatching featured Jones's previously improvised movements recorded using motion capture technology. In 2010, Kaiser, Eshkar, and Marc Downie of the OpenEndedGroup revised Ghostcatching into a new piece titled After Ghostcatching , composed of unused sequences of Jo…
Ghostcatching and After Ghostcatching , Dances in the Dark
In 1999, Bill T. Jones, in collaboration with digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar, presented an installation at the intersection of dance, drawing, and digital imaging. Ghostcatching featured Jones's previously improvised movements recorded using motion capture technology. In 2010, Kaiser, Eshkar, and Marc Downie of the OpenEndedGroup revised Ghostcatching into a new piece titled After Ghostcatching , composed of unused sequences of Jo…
Between Disgust And Regeneration
Between Disgust And Regeneration: Tiffany E. Barber (bio), Angela Naimou (bio), and Wangechi Mutu (bio) Nairobi-born, New York-based artist WANGECHI MUTU makes fantastic worlds inhabited by mythological creatures and cyborgs. In her contribution to the 2015 Venice Biennale, curated by OKWUI ENWEZOR, Mutu presented three new works across a range of media—a three-channel animated video, a sculptural installation, and a large-scale collage—in a room…
In Media Res
Research Article| July 01 2016 In Media Res: A Conversation with Philip Mallory Jones Tiffany E. Barber Tiffany E. Barber TIFFANY E. BARBER is a scholar, curator, and writer on twentieth- and twentyfirst-century visual art and performance, with a focus on artists of the black diaspora living and working in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2016) 44 (1-2): 23–29. https://doi.or…
Response to Paul Kaiser's Letter to the Editor
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Conversation with Salamishah Tillet
Beyoncé, as this Close-Up suggests, figures prominently in the global imaginary. Her status as a celebrity and icon, and her influence on changing notions of feminism and black womanhood, are located at the convergence of art and politics. In this conversation, Tiffany E. Barber and Salamishah Tillet discuss the performer's popularity, her performances of blackness and black womanhood, how she imagines the post-civil rights South in her work, and…
Years of Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Thought
Narcissister, a Truly Kinky Artist
Narcissister, Red Riding Hood, 2014, mixed media (photograph provided by the artist)Drawing on the myth of Narcissus and the transgressive perversity it inspires, New York–based performance artist
An OutKast Reader
Art History as Black Study
Under cover
Ja'Tovia Gary's Superlative Surrealism
Throughout her œuvre, multidisciplinary artist Ja'Tovia Gary uses artifices unique to surrealism to foreground the aesthetic and political value of Black womanhood against the backdrop of ongoing racial and gender violence in the United States. This essay examines the ways in which her automatic writing, deployments of collage strategies, and of doubling and camouflage also place Black female embodiment at the center of surrealist practice, bridg…
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