What is it about?
A Belgian Transect is a co-authored account of the experience of a project undertaken during Sideways Festival in Belgium in 2012. An account of a 200km walk, 13 live broadcasts using bespoke software from a series of fields in Belgium, an autoethnographic account of a journey across Belgium and a journey into using the Field Broadcast technology.
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Why is it important?
Field Broadcast is a piece of bespoke software developed by Birch and Smith that uses Flash Media Live Encoder to link an audience anywhere in the world to a live performance from anywhere in the world. It is a precursor to Tate Modern's Live Room broadcasts and a new type of digital encounter with place. The autoethnographic writing style is being adopted here by artists who are also portraying themselves as academics, slipping between the gaps between disciplines and opening up new realms for further questioning.
Perspectives
I have been working on an autoethnographic account of another long distance journey for some time now as part of my PhD research at Falmouth University. The publication of this paper vindicates my interest and has given me the opportunity to share this perspective with an unexpected range of academics. A note towards transecting is to be published later in 2015 in a Triarchy Press publication entitled Ways to Wander.
Mr Bram Thomas Arnold
Falmouth University
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This page is a summary of: A Belgian Transect: Field Broadcast in the expanded field of ecology, Digital Creativity, January 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2015.993656.
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