Rebecca Birch
Mountain Field Verge Tabletop Clock Tree
   

Field Broadcast: www.fieldbroadcast.org

 

Curated project: co-curated with Rob Smith
May 8 - May 16 2010
Produced with Wysing Arts Centre and PROJECKT

Thirty-three artists were invited to make a live broadcast from a field.

All works, whether video, animation, performance, sculpture or live data were created in the field with no editing or post-
production. Each broadcast was viewed by a dispersed international audience, at office desks, in cafes, on trains and at kitchen tables. Times of the broadcasts were not published in advance, instead a downloadable desktop application alerted the audience and opened a viewing window on their desktop. The live nature of the broadcasts was a crucial element of the project, linking the chance environmental conditions of the production and context of the presentation of the work in a single event .

Broadcasting artists were:
Bram Thomas Arnold, Ed Atkins, Dave Ball and Oliver Walker, Christopher Bassford and Jonathan Ryall, Richard Bevan, Sara Bjarland, Martin John Callanan, Susan Collins, Dan Coopey, Alexander Costello, David Cotterrell, Michael Cousin, Juan Cruz, Sean Edwards, Simon Faithfull, Florencia Guillen, Hamilton, Southern and St Armand, Toby Huddlestone and Sarah Jane Parton, Fritha Jenkins, David Kefford, Olivier Leger, Pernille Leggat Ramfelt, Neil Luck, Revati Mann, Elizabeth McTernan, Alex Pearl, Eric Rosoman, Jennie Savage, Rob Smith, Dan Walwin, Ian Whittlesea, Luke Williams, Laura Wilson

Laptop ready to transmit Dan Walwin broadcast
Backstage broadcast testing Receiving Simon Faithfull broadcast
photo: Laura Wilson