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...
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...
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
Amplifying the City Screen
Presented at the UTS symposium Auricle – Sound Cultures of the Future. City screen View more presentations from Sarah Barns
British Library Sound Archive: Unlocking Audio
In 2009 I presented the Sydney Sidetracks project to a British Library conference called Unlocking Audio – Connecting with Listeners. Here’s a copy of the presentation plus a bit of a potted summary of what I said. Sydney Sidetracks: Exploring a city of lost sounds View more presentations from Sarah Barns. The central focus of...