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Wunderbar Festival gets ready for the Field Broadcast

Field Broadcast is an innovative new art project that links three artists in three different cities, and runs as part of the Distance festival.

Featuring live broadcasts from Newcastle, London and the Latvian capital Riga, a picture of the cultural and physical landscape of each are developed in the transmissions.

Audiences can download software from the Field Broadcast website, and then their daily lives will be playfully interrupted, unannounced throughout the duration of the festival.

The project explores our perception of distance in a world of connectivity: technology, cheap flights and global culture.

Artists, Nomadi, Sean Maltby and Rob Smith will be equipped with laptops, video cameras and mobile internet connection, allowing them to create animation, text, performance and data that will reach audiences without any editing or post-production.

Distance forms part of this year’s Wunderbar art festival which brings together a host of creative projects, geared around public participation.

Between Monday Oct 31 and Sunday Nov 6, Wunderbar offers various events across Newcastle, led by artists that encourage the public to get involved

To participate in the Field Broadcast, download the software here.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .