Timothy Barker
Senior Lecturer
Department of Culture & Creative Arts
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
Biography
Timothy Barker is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culture & Creative Arts
Research Interest
Tim’s research involves the critical analysis of digital technology in contemporary audio-visual culture. Working in the tradition of media archaeology, and spanning the fields of media theory, art theory and the philosophy of technology, Tim conducts research that involves considerations of aesthetics in relation to the technological infrastructure of image making. In particular, he has explored the ways that both old and new media technologies have facilitated the potential to generate new experiences and philosophical concepts of time. His first book Time and the Digital (Dartmouth, 2012) traces connections between the philosophy of time in the work of Gilles Deleuze and A.N. Whitehead and uses this to explore questions of time, history and memory in relation to digital aesthetics, communication technology and contemporary interactive art. His second book, Against Transmission: Media Philosophy and the Engineering of Time (Bloomsbury, 2018) pairs archive research into the history of media technology with philosophical inquiry in order to explore the ways that experiences of time have been engineered through the history of measurement and storage media.
Publications
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Barker, T. (2012) Images and eventfulness: expanded cinema and experimental research at the University of New South Wales. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 6(2), pp. 111-123.
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Barker, T. and McKeown, C. (2015) Unearthing techno-ecology: on the possibility of a technical media philosophy of ecology. Digital Culture and Society, 1(1), pp. 21-38.
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Barker, T. (2017) Experiments with time: the technical image in media art and the digital humanities. Visual Communication, 16(4), pp. 375-394.
