- the action of recording, transmitting replaying a sound source.

(the wobble of outside/inside broadcasts, early years of radio).

- the various agencies (organisations) of this action.

A-baa has been initiated by Media Arts Staff (Geoff Cox, Susan Derges, Chris Rodrigues, Phaedra Stancer & Robin Serjeant) at Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Plymouth (with QR research funding); with Camerawork (that receives revenue funding from the London Arts Board); Obsolete (Jon Bains, James Stevens, Kim Bull); and Seale Hayne Farm (Richard Newington). Additional help has been provided by Andy Bateman (Royal College of Art); Dave Westcott & Rosalind Banwell (Faculty of Agriculture, University of Plymouth).

This act represents a moral protest against the complicity of art and new media with late capitalism; it seeks to emphasise technologies' contribution to the spectacle; there is too much, there are too many, things are made to be excessive, too visual - 'the vision to keep the world talking' (BT).

Developments in communication and information technology make free and immediate exchange more possible, while the impoverishment of their use merely re-inforces the alienated pseudo-participation of the 'spectacle'.(SP)

- the technological link; from (battle)field to internet to gallery.

Such as the Gulf War: from sites of battle to internet and back again; as order of information.

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