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Professor Timothy Barker holds the position of Professor of Media Technology and Aesthetics in the Theatre, Film & Television Studies section of the School of Culture & Creative Arts within the College of Arts at the University of Glasgow. He also serves as the convenor for Research, Scholarship, and Knowledge Exchange in Film and TV Studies. Barker's research involves the critical analysis of the aesthetics and infrastructures of digital technology in the contemporary world. Drawing on media archaeology, media theory, art theory, and the philosophy of technology, his work incorporates technically informed discourse analysis and the continental tradition of philosophy of technology. He examines connections between the philosophy of time as developed by Gilles Deleuze and A.N. Whitehead and questions of time, history, and memory in relation to digital aesthetics, communication technology, and contemporary interactive art. More recently, his research addresses technology and contemporary crises through a critical engagement with Michel Serres’ philosophy of technology.

Barker is the author of Time and the Digital: Connecting Technology, Aesthetics, and a Process Philosophy of Time (Dartmouth College Press, 2012) and Against Transmission: Media Philosophy and the Engineering of Time (Bloomsbury, 2018). He co-edited Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) with Maria Korolkova. His recent publications include "Artificial creativity: a process philosophy of technology perspective" (Journal of Continental Philosophy, 2024), "Michel Serres and the philosophy of technology" (Theory, Culture & Society, 2023), "Unplayable games: time and digital culture" (Kunsttexte, 2023), "Media temporalities and the technical image" (Organisation as Time: Technology, Power and Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2023), and "Cultural techniques of play: a media philosophical approach to the study of time, history and memory in games" (Configurations, 2019). He has secured funding including the Arts and Humanities Research Council CREATe Research Infrastructure Award (2023-2028, Co-I), Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2015-2016), Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland grant (2013), and British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant (2013). Prior to his current role, he was a research fellow at the iCinema Research Centre, University of New South Wales (2009-2012).