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.
ABC Open Archives on Pool
Through ABC Pool, I’ve been working to publish a number of the archival recordings featured on Sydney Sidetracks through an open access Creative Commons licence. That means they are now available for re-use and remix. The project is starting with the Sydney collection, but will be expanding to include other cities very soon. The project...
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...
Sounding the city’s real times
It was 9am Sydney time on August 15 1945 when British Prime Minister Clement Atlee announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. “The last of our enemies is laid low” he said. “PEACE!” roared The Sun. In downtown Martin Place, massive crowds spontaneously gathered, to dance and make whoopie in celebration of the...
Diversions or Diversity?
I used to worry a lot about media diversity. I don’t so much any more. But I do still worry about diversions. This piece was published some years ago (2006) for Metro Magazine. Metro Article
George St gets a makeover: 1906 to 2030
Publishing street level film archives online can lead to some interesting results. While the Powerhouse Museum have been exploring new uses of high-res images published from the Tyrrell Collection, I’ve also spotted a recent montage by Dan Hill which uses some of the film footage published through Sidetracks on Architect. Peering into the flow of...
On making Sidetracks
Apparently it’s not very easy to be offered access to the ABC’s TV and Radio archives. This strikes me as slightly odd – with the broadcaster so happy to lecture the Australian public that it’s ‘Our ABC’, and, increasingly ‘the town square’ of Australian media life, it would seem to me that a system enabling...
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...
Victoria St soundwalk
“I built a city of green, the best you’ve ever seen…” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This sound feature experiments, loosely, with the format of the soundwalk, and is intended to accompany a stroll down Victoria St. It is composed entirely of recordings made on, or about, Victoria St, including those made around...
Fresh & New(er) interview about Sidetracks
The Powerhouse Museum’s Seb Chan conducted an interview with me exploring some of the ideas and aspirations of Sydney Sidetracks. Excerpts of the interview are pasted below. Q: Sidetracks (re)tells some great stories of our city. How did you choose which stories to tell? Sarah Barns: I was pretty motivated in my selection by finding...
