G Douglas Barrett

G Douglas Barrett is an assistant professor in the television, radio and film department. He teaches sound/media production and graduate courses in media studies.

Barrett works across music, art and media as a scholar and artist. His research examines how contemporary art and postwar experimentalism address social and philosophical problems. It considers the critique of political economy, societal impacts of science and technology, and structures of race, gender, and sexuality through critical and interpretive methods from the humanities. Barrett's work is situated in media theory, musicology, and sound studies, and engages with critical theory and art history.

Barrett is the author of two books: “Experimenting the Human: Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman” (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and “After Sound: Toward a Critical Music” (Bloomsbury, 2016). His research has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as Cultural Critique, Discourse, Postmodern Culture, Mosaic, Twentieth-Century Music, Contemporary Music Review, and Technoetic Arts. He has presented his work at conferences hosted by the American Musicological Society (AMS), the College Art Association (CAA), the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), and AI Music Studies (AIMS).

Barrett co-leads Posthumanities: Arts and Sciences, a focus group in SU’s BioInspired Institute that supports collaborations across the arts, humanities, and sciences. He was a faculty fellow in SU’s Autonomous Systems Policy Institute (ASPI) and co-organizes the Sound and Media Working Group of the Central New York Humanities Corridor.

Alongside his publications, Barrett’s curatorial and artistic projects have been presented internationally and featured in Artforum, The Wire, Postmodern Culture, MusikTexte, and Guernica. He has received support from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Franklin Furnace, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Barrett holds a Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo, an MFA from CalArts, and a BM from Berklee College of Music.