Stephen Barber is Professor of Art and Film, and Co-Director of the Visual Culture Research Centre, at Kingston University in London. He is the author of three already-published books with Diaphanes - White Noise Ballrooms, 2018, Film's Ghosts, 2019, and The Projectionists, 2020. He has also translated two books of writings by Antonin Artaud for Diaphanes, with the titles Artaud 1937 Apocalypse, 2018, and A Sinister Assassin, 2023. His books have been described as 'brilliant, profound and provocative' by The Times newspaper in the UK.