Lecture date: 2008-02-08
Judith Barry is a pioneer of video, performance, and new media whose interdisciplinary artwork has been shown internationally since the early 1980s.
Barry’s education includes training in architecture, art, literature, film theory and computer graphics. She has contributed essays to a number of contemporary art publications. In 1991 the ICA published Public Fantasy, a collection of her essays edited by Iwona Blazwick that accompanied an exhibition of the same title. Her most recent publications include Projections: mise en abyme, featuring an interview between herself, Mark Wigley and Brian Wallis. She won the Friedrich Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts in 2000. She is currently Director of the MFA Program at the Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University. Barry was awarded Best Pavilion at the 8th Cairo Biennial and her work has been exhibited internationally at biennials including Venice, So Paulo, Nagoya, Cairo, and Melbourne.
