I Walk The Line; 2008, Compilation of YouTube videos of individuals covering 'I Walk the Line', collected and exhibited as live, randomly streamed videos as part of Transmission, the online presence of Inevntion (2) (Rebeca Birch, Alex Hudson, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Rob Smith, curated by Charles Danby) at Leicester City Art Gallery (OFFSITE) September 2008.

Transmission is archived here: http://www.robsmith.me.uk/transmission/transmission.html

'Transmission neither replaces nor extends the work on display, serving as a point of departure as it juxtaposes four screens representing the four artists: it helps the viewer become an enquirer, questioning the liveness and the purpose of the presentation. Rebecca Birch maintains a level of reflexivity by presenting a stream of videos from YouTube in which countless people cover Johnny Cash’s ‘I Walk the Line’. Our viewing of these musical offerings is mediated not just through recording and transmission, but also by the appropriation of this material from YouTube to Transmission. Normally engaging with web-published videos in the privacy of our own homes, this re-presentation serves again to make us aware of our position as receivers. This also highlights the somewhat solitary plight of the person transmitting their material: Its reception can be indicated by statistics and possibly mediated feedback, but as the content can easily be freely altered and distributed, this material may lead to a life beyond the imagining of its maker.' Bianca Winter, a-n Magazine, October 2008