Faculty
The ITI faculty offer a wide variety of approaches to the written and visual arts. All are working contemporary artists who publish and exhibit their work in national and international contexts. Our faculty are dedicated to innovative approaches and traditions that value psychologically, culturally and politically engaged work.
Stephanie Barber is an American writer and artist. She has
created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a
variety of media. Her videos are concerned with the content,
musicality and experiential qualities of language and her language
is concerned with the emotional impact of moments and ideas. Each
ferry viewers through philosophical inquiry with the unexpected
oars of empathy, play, story and humor.
Barber’s films and videos have screened nationally and
internationally in solo and group shows at MOMA, NY; The Tate
Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Paris
Cinematheque; The Walker Art Center, MN; MOCA Los Angeles, The
Wexner Center for Art, OH, among other galleries, museums and
festivals.
Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her films can be
found at Canyon Cinema and Fandor.com. Her books Night
Moves and these here separated... were published by
Publishing Genius Press in 2013 and 2010 respectively. Her
collection of very short stories All The People was
published by Ink Press Productions in 2015.
James Glisson at Artforum wrote "...the films of Stephanie Barber
engage universal themes—time, death, memory, forgetting,
frustration." and Ed Halter at Afterall Online wrote
"Barber...approaches cinema as a philosophical toy, intimately
small, in which the play itself generates both pleasure and
insight."
Barber is currently a resident artist at The Mt. Royal MFA for
Interdisciplinary Art at MICA in Baltimore, MD