Barbara Campbell
Barbara Campbell (born 1961) is an Australian performance and installation artist. Early life and education Campbell was born in Beaudesert, Queensland in 1961. She studied film under Alan Cholodenko, Rex Butler and Keith Broadfoot at Power Department of Art History at University of Sydney in 1987. She completed a Master of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney in 1998. In 2015 she completed a PhD at Sydney College of the Arts, researching how migratory shorebirds direct human performance. Influences and art practice Campbell's influences come from peers working in the Sydney Super 8 Film Group, 60s minimalist filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage. Campbell also recognises the influence of French semioticians such as Christian Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, André Bazin, Jean Baudrillard and Raymond Bellour. In 1987 Campbell took a course in Super 8 at the Tin Sheds art workshop at the University of Sydney, and conducted numerous workshops organised by Sydney Intermedia Network with artists and peers such as Andrew Frost. Campbell later started using video, setting up live video feedback so that the camera and the monitor could be used to create a dialogue between performer and audience. Career Campbell used text as the starting