Barratt's doctoral research focuses on panic, affect and deterritorialization, explored through performance, experimental poetics and vocalities.
"[4] In 1990, Virginia Barratt attended the Second International Symposium on Electronic Art in Groningen, Netherlands along with other ANAT ambassadors.
[8] Barratt has said: "The VNS Matrix emerged from the cyberswamp during a southern Australian summer circa 1991, on a mission to hijack the toys from technocowboys and remap cyberculture with a feminist bent.
"[4] VNS Matrix's multimedia project,[8] A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, became the first installment of Rhizome's online exhibition Net Art Anthology[9] on 27 October 2016.
Her most recent works have been performed in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Byron Bay, Sydney, Helsingør, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Performing Arts Forum (PAF) and the Sorbonne in France, Humboldt University and Kunsthaus KuLe in Berlin.