Book Chapter: From Social Butterly to Engaged Citizen (MIT 2011)
A new book on urban informatics hit the bookstores last December: From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (MIT 2011) edited by Marcus Foth, Laura Forlano, Christine Satchell and Martin Gibbs. Congratulations to everyone involved in the creation of this impressive collection of case studies, reflections and stories from the front lines of the ever-expanding set...
Unguarded Moments: In full view
WHAT IF faces from the past were visible again, watching us in our streets and laneways? This question was the premise of Unguarded Moments, a series of site-specific video installations featuring in selected locations throughout Walsh Bay and Millers Point during Art & About Sydney 2011. The project was supported by the City of Sydney...
Intangible Presences
Intangible Presences was a presentation I delivered to the bi-annual gathering of Museums and Galleries Queensland in August 2011. This provided a wonderful opportunity to connect with practitioners, curators and historians working in galleries and museums both large and small. The presentation is below. Museums and Galleries have also published videos of presentations here. Many...
Unguarded Moments – Art & About Sydney 2011
Unguarded Moments is a new project I’m working on as part of Art & About Sydney 2011. The project has been selected as the ‘City Villages’ project and will be based around the wharves of Walsh Bay and up through to Millers Point. For the project’s accompanying website, I’ve been able to set up some...
Remembering the Green Bans
I had the pleasure of attending a great forum at the Institute of Australian Geographers Conference on Tuesday on the topic of the Green Bans. This year we are seeing a number of events and articles on the topic, marking the 40th anniversary of this particularly intense period of urban activism in Australia. Bob and...
James Gleick on the Future of the Book
A little contribution to the reams of type currently circling the skies, relating to the future of the book. Written for creativeinnovation.net.au
Street Haunting: Sounding the Invisible City
Sneak preview of a book chapter featuring in the upcoming Digital Cities publication From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen, to be published by MIT in Dec 2011. Street Haunting SBarns Final-1 The title for the chapter was inspired by reading Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting, in which she takes her readers on a walk through London...
NSW Suburb Labs
NSW SuburbLabs is a pilot project connecting historical content in government and public archives and institutions to the testbed locations of the National Broadband Network in NSW. The project was funded by the NSW Government in 2010 as part of its Broadband Testbed Trials. Two of the test-bed locations feature here: Middleton Grange and Kiama....
Visions of the City
This presentation was given at The Right to the City Symposium, University of Sydney, May 2011. Visions of the City View more presentations from Sarah Barns Linda Carroli’s review of the event can also be read below. Architecture Australia Review: The Right to the City Symposium & Exhibition
The Death and Life of the Real-Time City
My PhD dissertation is now complete, and can be downloaded from this site.
Amplifying the City Screen
Presented at the UTS symposium Auricle – Sound Cultures of the Future. City screen View more presentations from Sarah Barns
Sounding Sydney
This is a selection of recordings which enable listeners to navigate Sydney's recorded geography, listening in to its past spaces...