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Iqbal Barkat
Iqbal Barkat is a digital artist and filmmaker. He teaches screen production at Macquarie University. Iqbal was born in Singapore and began his career in theatre as artistic director of Gung Ho Theatre Ensemble. He is a proponent and practitioner of community and participatory arts specializing in works involving a combination of actors and non-actors. His works are often hybrid as they emanate from real settings but include fictional elements and involve the intersection of digital media with other art forms. He co-authored a major Australian Tertiary text on media production, Screen Media Arts (OUP, 2009). Screen Media Arts won the Tertiary Teaching and Learning Category at the Australian Publishing Awards. His multiform arts project, Terrorist/Apostate, a hybrid theatre work that explores the outsider and Islam, has had development showings at Parramatta Riverside Theatres and Blacktown Arts Centre in Western Sydney. He is currently working on a documentary film research project that explores the cognitive mapping of a primary school community in western Sydney.