NZ National Digital Forum Keynote Presentation
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Titled 'Past Forward: Speculative Adventures in the city's archive', this presentation provided an outline of some the different projects and methodologies I've developed which re-imagine the applications and experiences of digital archives for community based storytelling, urban history and location-based services.
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Past ForwardSpeculative adventures inthe city’s archive
Dr. Sarah BarnsESEM Projects@_sarahbarns
National Digital ForumWellington NZNovember 2012
Image: revox a77 by clocktrick on flickr
Big data = big archives
‘The 20th century has released us into history through technology’-NDF 2011
Image: Greenbook
Historypin.com
Reaching out across the temporal divide… Bert & Ernie on YouTube
PlaceWhat is the meaning or contribution of a particular place – to a city, to a person, to an idea?
ArchivesArchives as landscapes of noisy events?The archive as an active, experiential platform.Film, TV, sound, image
Public spaceSite-specific installations The ‘street museum’The right to the city
DigitalRelationship between informational and physical placesSound, spatial media, responsive environments
I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know that this would be the same as telling you nothing.
The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of space and the events of its past.
Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
Urban informatics(Arup)
The journey begins with fear! Visions of mobile futures in 2003
When old technologieswerenew…
Publicauthoring ofthe city
Urban tapestriesProboscis 2004
Jeremy HightNarrative Archaeology2003
Listening toan archive of pastevents?
Soundingthe city
Hildegaard WesterkampA Walk Through the City (1981)
Janet CardiffThe Missing Voice (1999)
Soundingthe city
Speculative Adventure No 1:
Could sound archives facilitate
new interactionsbetween the built and recorded history ofa place?
JaywalkingSydney
A research residency to identify the availability of sound archives capturing changes to Sydney’s built environment for publication via map and mobile interfaces
DateJanuary- February 2007 WhereCentre for Scholarly & Archival Research
CollectionNational Film and Sound Archive
Tagsurban development, protest, Sydney
LocationsPyrmont, Kings Cross, The Rocks
Archaeologies of recorded action - not -surviving artefact
“What is a tall building? Frankly, to the developer, it’s an opportunity to make money…”
Lynn Beedle,Director of the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat speaking toABC Radio in 1963
Visions of the city
115 Victoria Street, Potts Point
Victoriastreetsoundwalk
This piece 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 the time of the protests and my own field recordings from 2007. It draws extensively from recordings used by permission from the documentary maker Pat Fiske.http://sitesandsounds.net.au
Publishing Video + Audio Archives with Google Maps
DateFebruary – June 2008 WhereABC Innovation
CollectionsABC Archives, NFSA, City of Sydney,Powerhouse Museum,State Library of NSW, & MCA
TagsSydney history
Locations55 ‘points of interest’ with audio, video, text
SpeculativeAdventure No. 2
ABC SydneySidetracks
Partners: ABC Archives, ABC Local Radio 702, National Film and Sound Archives, the Dictionary of Sydney, the City of Sydney, the State Library of NSW, the Powerhouse Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art
http://abc.net.au/sidetracks
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Sydney Sidetracks abc.net.au/sidetracks
Martin Place 2008
Martin Place VP Day 1945ABC Radio recording
Listening to a contemporary space through its auditory past?
Interactions between builtand recorded history?
Site-specificInstallations
Speculative Adventure No. 3
Art & About Sydney
Unguarded Moments -Village Art Project 2011
Last Drinks – One Last Round at the Hotel Australia-Major Commission 2012
DateSeptember- October 2011 & 12 WhereMillers Point, & surroundsMartin Place & surrounds
CollectionsNational Film and Sound Archive, Maritime Workers Union, City of Sydney, State Library of NSW,
FormatsDigital projectionsLive audioMobileWeb
Last Drinks: One more round at the Hotel Australia
Last Drinks: One more round at the Hotel Australia
The Australia Hotel1891 - 1971
Now MLC Centre
Last Drinks-Rowe St
The Australia Hotel-community contributions
http://thelastdrinksproject.com
Last Drinks: One more round at the Hotel Australia
See Flickr for full image slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unguardedmoments/sets/72157632019425933/show/
Last Drinks: One more round at the Hotel Australia
See Flickr for full image slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unguardedmoments/sets/72157632019425933/show/
Use of archival recordings infilm projections
Sources: NFSA, SLNSW, community contributionsFor all credits go to: thelastdrinksproject.com/archival-sources
Vimeo.com/esemtprojects
Use of archival recordings infilm projections
Sources: NFSA, SLNSW, community contributionsFor all credits go to: thelastdrinksproject.com/archival-sources
Vimeo.com/esemtprojects
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Archival image source: Theatre in Australia 1952 sourced from the Film Australia Collection, National Film and Sound Archive
