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This site belongs to Sarah Barns. It's a space for various projects and reflections relating to spatial media, urban history and planning, and digital archives. In this land, they all connect. Thanks for visiting.
Projects
Unguarded Moments: In full view

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...
NSW Suburb Labs

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NSW SuburbLabs is a pilot project connecting historical content in government and public archives and institutions to the testbed locations of the National Broadband Network in NSW.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....
Sydney Sidetracks

Sydney Sidetracks

Sydney Sidetracks is a multi-platform initiative supported by ABC Innovation to explore the distribution of the ABC’s audio-visual archive using map and mobile interfaces. The site was launched in November 2008, featuring over 50 stories about Sydney, which represent ‘points of interest’ on a map that users can explore either online or out and about...
Jaywalking Sydney

Jaywalking Sydney

Jaywalking Sydney was a Research Fellowship undertaken through the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) Centre for Scholarly and Archival Research in February-March of 2007. This was an exploratory exercise to identify how archival recordings about specific Sydney locations could be made available in-situ using mobile devices (ipods, mobile phones etc). The essential idea was...
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