Barbara London is a US curator and writer specializing in new media and sound art.
She is best known for founding the video collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and for the leading acquisition of works by Nam June Paik, Laurie Anderson, Bruce Nauman.
[5][6] At MoMA, she organized more than 500 cutting edge media art exhibitions showcasing the work of pioneering artists active internationally.
She also initiated Video Viewpoints (1978–2002), a four-year lecture series in which media artists regularly presented and discussed their work.
[9][10]A series of curatorial dispatches from China, the site was among the first publications to map the emerging field of Chinese media art.