Esem Projects

Digital Interpretation and Public Art practice led by @_sarahbarns and Michael K. These streets are our interfaces, these buildings our canvas. More on Insta!

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Imagine if outdoor media invested in local creativity? These digital plinths located around Canberra's City West Precinct are part of our new storytelling program inspired by creative connections to place. Featuring work from @ANUartdesign , Craft ACT and Design Canberra.

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We Dream the City playing as part of @VividSydney features an incredible archive of Sydney street scenes we'd never seen before, thanks to the Transport for NSW Historical Collections and Digitisation Project. @TransportforNSW

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Listen to the voices of Sydney identities past and present as they share their dreams of the city.

"This is the city of Sydney" says Shirley Abicair in 1960, on a visit home to Australia. "Crowded, sprawling, urgent, confused".

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We Dream the City premiered along the Goods Line for Vivid this weekend. The projection artwork creates a dreamscape of urban memory, drawing from intensive archival research into the recorded archaeologies of the city.

Showing nightly from 6pm until June 18.

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I’ve loved these past few months getting to know the brilliant storytellers and artists working in & around #parramatta. Next Tues 7 October the Storybox digital cube created by @esem_projects touches town in Parramatta Square, feat. works by many! Image features Cindy Chen 🙏

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When you turn the town’s major administrative building into a canvas for the art of maths. During a pandemic! Very proud of my @esem_projects team for this beautiful work for #bathurstwinterfestival #Steam #artofnumbers

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We’re proud of our work with the Bathurst community to create a successful, community focused annual illuminations event - the #bathurstwinterfestival https://t.co/5VtKHe7Wb5

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@MayorDarcy It’s a beautiful space, congratulations!

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Our ‘Unguarded Moments’ series creates intimate moments of encounter with people in the past, out on the streets, using #digitalarchives. This coming week we’ll be introducing new moments in partnership w/ @ABCaustralia for @storybox_places (on Insta). See https://t.co/nI5dcwjNEo

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Sad to hear #Botanica Festival is cancelled. And with it my Superorganism sound & light installation, to be experienced under the canopy of a huge Tipuana Tree. 1/2

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Excited to start putting some ideas into action for a new project about James Lovelock and the Novacene... #superorganism #novacene

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We’re shining a light on creative people and passions for our #labouroflove project launching tonight in Marrickville. Artist parties, projections, tours and more happening night and day. Support from @IWCouncil #edgeinnerwest #placemaking #notnetflix

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Hey people. We’re launching #labouroflove this coming Friday 2 August in Marrickville at makerspaceandco. Come on down from 6pm and get some good cheer on. The EDGE festival will be launching with parties and arts… https://t.co/4pYOeULv13

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Let’s face it, who knows what’s really real. If no one saw, did it really happen? If no one saved it, right clicked, archived, remembered, does it really matter? #pastforward #esemprojectsarchives #archivesofarchives… https://t.co/kuC0krxUwI

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Events like the Bathurst Winter Festival are becoming great platforms for #placemaking and retail activation in regional areas. For this year’s Festival we worked with a talented team to transform the Courthouse into an interplanetary voyager. Things got busy! @BathurstCouncil

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Playing around with technicolour effects ahead of our Ways of Seeing workshops with local artists Henry Simmons and Nicole Welch for #BathurstWinterFestival @BathurstCouncil

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#WaysofSeeing #EsemProjects

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Do we always need to know what’s inside, or are somethings better left hidden, closed up? These are archive boxes on display in the Archives Nationales Museum in Paris, an empty room in the middle of the bustling city. They say: “everybody shhhh”. #timescapes #weareallhistory

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@LiverpoolGirlsH

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Today I’m thinking of the girls at Liverpool Girls High School, who I worked with last year to record many stories of arrival to Australia as a place of peace. Peace to you all this week as we celebrate Harmony Day across NSW. 🙏 @esem_projects

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@LiverpoolGirlsH @LiverpoolBoysHS @NSWEducation So true. A great community to work with. 🙏