G Douglas Barrett is an artist and scholar working on experimental music, media studies, and contemporary art. His second monograph, Experimenting the Human: Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman, appeared in 2023 on the University of Chicago Press. His book, After Sound: Toward a Critical Music, was published in 2016.

Barrett’s research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Cultural Critique, Discourse, Postmodern Culture, Mosaic, Twentieth-Century Music, and Contemporary Music Review. He speaks regularly at international conferences on music, sound, media, and art.

Barrett’s musical and artistic work has been discussed in Artforum, The Wire, Postmodern Culture, MusikTexte, and Guernica. He has been an artist-in-residence at USF Verftet Bergen, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Catwalk Institute. Barrett has received grants from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Franklin Furnace, and DAAD.

He is currently an Assistant Professor in the TV, Radio, & Film department at Syracuse University.