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Davi Barker
Artist, Writer, Graphic Designer, Editor, Brand Specialist, Ghostwriter, Collagist, Poet, Calligrapher, Educator, Consultant.
Resume
Objective: To secure a creative position commensurate to both my visual and verbal skills.
Norton Press
Creative Director
Managed a small crew to produce and distribute a monthly magazine.
Designed provocative covers and page layouts for all publications.
Designed all printed materials including fliers, posters, stickers, and T-shirts.
Survivor Max
Author and Illustrator
Wrote and illustrated three YA zombie novels, with nine books outlined in the series.
Designed and produced all Survivor Max branding and promotional material.
Attended conventions as a speaker and vendor, interacting with thousands of readers.
Art For Life
Art Instructor
Developed an engaging afterschool program for middle school aged children.
Designed curriculums for children with special needs and adults seeking one-on-one instruction.
Hosted art events for adults, such as bachelorette parties.
Daily Anarchist
Editor
Researched, wrote, edited and published an ongoing column.
Managed a team of paid writers and authors who contributed content to the site.
Actively worked to promote cooperation and outreach across ideological lines.
Examiner.com
Columnist
Researched, wrote, edited, and published two ongoing columns examining current events.
Won the Brass Crescent Award for Best Series in 2009.
Described as “bold and investigative” by the Brass Crescent judges.
Agorist Hosting
Branding Specialist
Designed ground-up branding guidelines and outreach materials for numerous clients.
Wrote creative and technical content from social media posts to full length books.
Attended conferences and trade shows as both a public speaker and vendor
“Introducing The Most Radical Algorithm”
59″ x 27″ collage featured at the de Young Open, an art exhibition of Bay Area artists on display at the de Young Museum from Sept 30, 2023 to Jan 7, 2024.
Artist Statement
Philosopher Alfred Korzybski observed that words influence our perception so thoroughly that he considered reality a co-creation of observation. This inspired novelist William S. Burroughs to begin his cut-up experiments, severing grammar and syntax. Do words removed from their context escape their original patterns? Does chaos create new patterns? Or does some remnant of the original pattern persist? Here I emulate Burroughs’ cut-up method with images, creating a colorful kaleidoscopic array of images that plays with apparent chaos while suggesting hidden patterns of order. The composition is an experiment. There are questions, variables, and results. I am merely an observer.
Memoir of a Reluctant Giant
by David Cameron Strachan as told to Davi Barker
The Giant and Ghostwriter
David came into my life the day I was born. I was named after them, as they were the paramour of my parents. I’ve written and published a stack of books, but David’s story is unique. They are literally a giant, standing a towering 6′ 10″ tall. They are also a giant figuratively, as an activist at the center of the struggle for gay and transgender equality, the AIDs outbreak, environmental protection, and their fight to stop unnecessary medical interventions on infants with intersex variations.
“Memoir of a Reluctant Giant” is the synthesis of over 600 pages of journals, interviews, and published writings by David Cameron Strachan. I have orchestrated that content into a narrative spanning roughly 60,000 words. This is a collaboration to the extent that I, the Ghostwriter, placed the words in the order they appear, and David, the Giant, wrote those words in the first place.
“Études has saved us thousands of hours of work and has unlocked insights we never thought possible.”
Annie Steiner
CEO, Greenprint
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