*Field Broadcast present*
*SCENE ON A NAVIGABLE RIVER*
*Adam Chodzko + Gretchen Egolf | Beth Collar | Ben Judd | Rory Macbeth |
Florence Peake | Paul Becker + Francesco Pedraglio | Way Through | Ian
Whittlesea*
New live artworks broadcast instantaneously to computers, tablets & mobile
phones
*9 **-* *15 July 2014*
*To receive the broadcasts download the app at http://fieldbroadcast.org
<http://fieldbroadcast.org>*
Constable's famous pastoral landscapes of rolling farmland, rivers and
meadows are the setting for *Scene on a Navigable River*, a series of new
live broadcast artworks, commissioned by *Field Broadcast*, a live digital
broadcasting platform led by artists Rebecca Birch and Rob Smith. After
downloading a special Field Broadcast app, the software waits quietly until
the artist's work is ready for transmission, when a live video stream opens
unannounced on the recipient's computer desktop, tablet or mobile phone.
Field Broadcast have commissioned eight artists to create new works for
broadcast from Dedham Vale, location of many of Constable's paintings
including *The Hay Wain* and *Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable
River). *Lying
somewhere between the real and the imagined in the carefully conserved
chocolate box 'heritage landscape' of Flatford Mill and the surrounding
area, *Scene from a Navigable River* forms a fragmented topology of an
iconic landscape, exploring both the physical setting and its
representation amongst the personal realm of apps, screensavers and gifs.
For seven days in July, new one-off artworks from artists *Adam Chodzko &
Gretchen Egolf*, *Beth Collar*, *Florence Peake*, *Ben Judd*, *Paul Becker
& Francesco Pedraglio*, *Way Through*, *Rory Macbeth* and *Ian
Whittlesea *interrupt
everyday activities in offices, homes, trains and cafes across the globe
delivering impromptu escapes into another world. Some take elements
directly from *The Hay Wain* as their starting point - its characters,
cloudscapes or colours; whilst others draw on a geographical feature - the
River Stour, the wider landscape and its hidden narratives, or its
contemporary presentation. Armed with laptops, video cameras and a 3G
internet connection, the artists broadcast their works direct from this
historical English Romantic landscape without any editing or post
production.
To receive *Scene on a Navigable River* please download the app from
*http://fieldbroadcast.org
<http://fieldbroadcast.org>*
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http://fieldbroadcast.org
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