Nomadi broadcasting Latvian lullabies in Riga.

 

Field Broadcast (London, UK)
featuring: Nomadi (Riga, Lavtia), Rob Smith (London, UK) and Séan Maltby (Newcastle, UK)

Over the duration of DISTANCE, Field Broadcast will bring three artists live to your computer desktop, direct from the remote landscapes in which they are broadcasting. Unannounced, these broadcasts create a playful interruption to your daily life, allowing you to take a field trip to a place somewhere else.

Field Broadcast is a live broadcasting network and platform that enables artists to make artworks that forge a direct link between the place they are broadcasting from and your computer desktop. To catch these broadcasts over the duration of DISTANCE, download the Field Broadcast software below or at www.fieldbroadcast.org, which will ‘ping’ and display the broadcasts from Nomadi, Rob Smith and Séan Maltby as they go live.

 

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Field Broadcast is developed and produced by artists Rebecca Birch and Rob Smith. They launched the project in 2010 as part of Wysing Arts Contemporary: Presents at Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, and have recently presented a new series of broadcasts with University of Bournemouth. Field Broadcast has featured over forty artists including Ed Atkins, Susan Collins, Juan Cruz, Sean Edwards, Simon Faithfull and Laura Wilson.

www.fieldbroadcast.org
www.robsmith.me.uk
www.rebeccabirch.net

Rob Smith (London) competed a post graduate diploma in Fine art at the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2002. Since then he has gone on to develop a digitally based practice that uses technology to engage with environments in a live time frame. Smith is one of the artist led duo that produces Field Broadcast and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include, What if at Ha Gamle Prestegard in Norway, Beacon at The Agency, London and a commission for Art Review’s Digital project space. www.robsmith.me.uk

Séan Maltby  (Newcastle) Currently undertaking the MFA Master of Fine Art course at Newcastle University, Séan Maltby has exhibited throughout the UK including the Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibitions in 2008 and 2009. His practice utilises various media such as video, kinetic installation and drawing. Current concerns include how the distinction between ‘canned’ or recorded time and ‘live time’ might be blurred. http://seanmaltbyartist.com/

Nomadi (Riga) is a creative association led by theatre director, Mārtiņš Eihe and cultural activist, Krista Burāne. Nomadi creates wanderings in the cultural fields: performances, films, exhibitions and events, promoting both the role of professional children and youth theater as well interdisciplinary and innovative art performance. Every second year Nomadi organize an International Theater Festival for Children and Youth “NoMadI” that every time takes place in a different city of Latvia,  where different generations can meet and create common thoughts for discussions that are important for everyone irrespective of one’s age. http://nomadi.lv/


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