Ruth Catlow

name Ruth Catlow

website http://www.flickr.com/photos/60673926@N02/

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Bio

Artist, writer, co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield, UK non-profit organisation for art, technology and social change since 1997. Head of School at Writtle School of Design (WSD).

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Projects

Local Play

LOCAL PLAY is a free and open, event-based and online art project that lets the public build a collaborative platform game about their hometown led by artists Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield) and Dr Mary Flanagan (Tiltfactor). In the first project levels of a platform game are to be created by local citizens of Southend-on-Sea to reflect their imaginings, hopes and needs among their own communities.

Festival of Money

A short film by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow
A dirty protest against the forces of neoliberalism in the incestuous worlds of 'high' art and mass media; featuring BBC coverage of Frieze Art Fair and The Guardian's promotion of Charles Saatchi.

Featured as part of Net Video, Black Box at Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, January 2012

Song - Pearly Gleam

A short video in which I perform a song (from behind the camera), in and around Writtle, Essex. I borrow 'Pearly Gleam' by Ivor Cutler borrowed with gratitude and respect.

Landscape - nature<>culture

Landscape drawings, photographs and video made in the New Forest, UK. "I incorporated the process of drawing - which it turns out is a conversation between eye, hand, playfulness, imagination, ego, memories, theories and stories of other scenes, natural and created (drawn, painted, photographed), along with the material stuff of the landscape itself- extending drawing into action, arrangement, evocation and performance."

at winter equinox we burn The Sun

A short film by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow.
"They ritually burn a copy of the evil Murdoch’s UK organ The Sun & accompany this with music both apposite and well executed...it is utterly alive...a practical demonstration of how political art doesn’t have to be dour or ploddingly earnest and indeed can summon a visceral beauty.

Articles/Reviews/Interviews

DIWO: Do It With Others – No Ecology without Social Ecology

In this essay Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett set out to show how the collaborative networked practices of the DIWO (Do It With Others) series of Email Art and co-curation projects (since 2007) underpinned the development of a series of projects, exhibitions and interventions that formed Furtherfield's Media Art Ecologies programme (since 2009) to explore what form an ecological art might take in the network age.

By Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow - 26/01/2013

Drawing as a Collective Activity

Ruth Catlow and Michael Szpakowski write here as teachers in the Art and Design degrees at Writtle School of Design. They speak passionately about the role of drawing in what it is to be human. There is, they say, "no known human culture that has not made representational and other marks with something, on something, for both fun and survival". They assert the value of drawing studies and advocate a model for education based on peer-learning where teachers and students engage side by side in a process of exchange.

By Ruth Catlow, Michael Szpakowski - 07/11/2012

We Won't Fly For Art: Media Art Ecologies

The insights of American anarchist ecologist Murray Bookchin, into environmental crisis, hinge on a social conception of ecology that problematises the role of domination in culture. His ideas become increasingly relevant to those working with digital technologies in the post-industrial information age, as big business daily develops new tools and techniques to exploit our sociality across high-speed networks (digital and physical).

By Ruth Catlow - 24/06/2012

Can Art do Technology and Social Change?

Is it possible to develop artistic projects that not only change the way we see and use technology but also affect real social change at the same time? Ruth Catlow introduces the Zero Dollar Laptop project and proposes that this might just be possible.

By Ruth Catlow - 01/11/2010

If not you not me

Annie Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling - of agitation, collusion, ardour and apprehension. This exhibition at HTTP Gallery presents three new collaborative works alongside documentation of recent networked performances created and curated by the artist.

By Ruth Catlow - 04/02/2010

What's on

21 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - 23 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - 360º Conference: Time around Space

Call for Papers and Contributions:Theme: The development of new technologies has made more possible the production and presentation of visual images and sound within the 360 degree environment...

added by dwstrang on 18/02/13

14 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - 30 Jun 2013 - 12:00am - Currents 2013: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival

The "collection" project has been selected for inclusion as a web based art work in the new media festival.

added by Carrie Ida Edinger on 15/05/13

3 Jun 2013 - 9:45am - 4:45pm - Owning the Arts Conference (Are the Arts for everyone?)

A conference for anyone who thinks the arts should be for everyone.

added by rowanarts on 19/04/13

31 May 2013 - 11:00am - 10 Jul 2013 - 6:00pm - Cyland + Digicult + CSAR = New Media in Venice

IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New Media parallel to the Venice Biennale...

added by thewye on 20/05/13

25 May 2013 - 10:00am - 29 Sep 2013 - 5:00pm - William Scott

The exhibition of William Scott's work at The Hepworth Wakefield illuminates the relationship and parallels between Scott and his contemporary Barbara Hepworth.

added by The Hepworth Wakefield on 26/04/13

Lexicon

Anthropotropic

Used to describe devices, media, et al that are becoming more suited to human use/consumption. May be used generally to describe anything that moves toward human use.

By Patrick Lichty on 20 May 2004 - 12:00am

Create, Remix, Play.

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