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Steve Rushton is a writer and editor based in Rotterdam. Rushton’s publications include Experience, Memory, Re-enactment, 2005 (co-editor); The Milgram Re-enactment, 2003 (contributing editor) Masters of Reality (2011). He has written essays and stories for numerous artists’ publications. He has collaborated with a number of artists and writers, including Rod Dickinson, Thomson & Craighead, Everything Editorial and Dexter Sinister. He curated the exhibition ''After Neurath: Like Sailors on the Open Sea'', Stroom, The Hague, (2006-07). He is a co-founder of the research group Signal:Noise (2010-12), which investigated the prevalence of notions of feedback in contemporary culture. His ongoing project, a wiki entitled ''The Fabulous Loop de Loop, a cybernetic discourse as read through seven feedback machines'', builds on these interests.<ref>Earlier version: Steve Rushton is a founding member of Signal:Noise, an experimental cross-disciplinary research project that aims to explore the influence of cybernetics and information theory on contemporary cultural life by testing out its central idiom, 'feedback', through debates, artworks, publications, performances, events and exhibitions. The project is lead by Steve Rushton, Dexter Sinister (David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey), Marina Vishmidt, Rod Dickinson and Emily Pethick.
Rushton has been a writer for a range of projects with artists including: Closed Circuit, (Rod Dickinson in collaboration with Steve Rushton 2010); Who, What, Where, When, Why & How, (Rod Dickinson in collaboration with Steve Rushton 2009); A Short Film About War (script in collaboration with Thomson & Craighead 2009); the Channel 4 project Flat Earth (script in collaboration with Thomson & Craighead 2007).
Publications include, Signal Noise Bulletin 1, AIR Berlin (2010); the series How Media Master Reality for First / Last Newspaper, issues 1-6, Dexter Sinister, (2009); New Walden, HB2, Issue 1, CAC, Glasgow, (2008); Experience, Memory, Re-enactment, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam/Revolver, Frankfurt (with Anke Bangma and Florian Wuest) (2005); The Milgram Re-enactment, Revolver, Frankfurt (2003). He has written for a variety of art magazines including Dot Dot Dot, Metropolis M, Mute, Casco Issues and was founding editor of London-based everything Magazine (1992-2001).</ref>


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Steve Rushton (1959) is a writer, editor and educator based in Rotterdam.


Rushton is currently working on the ongoing wiki project ''The Fabulous Loop de Loop: A cybernetic discourse as read through seven feedback machines''<ref>https://hub.xpub.nl/rushtonhosts/fabulousloopdeloop/index.php?title=Main_Page</ref> and on the experimental novel ''Megafauna''.


Publications include:''The PostScriptUM Anthology (2010–2023)
Essays on Art, Technology, Society and the Environment,'' Daphne Dragona, Domenico Quaranta, Eds, Aksioma Press, 2024 (anthology);
''Information, Documents in Contemporary Art'', Sarah Cook, Ed.,  MIT Press, 2016 (anthology); ''Signal Noise Bulletin 1'', AIR Berlin (2010); the series ''How Media Master Reality'' for First / Last Newspaper, issues 1-6, Dexter Sinister (2009); ''New Walden'', HB2, Issue 1, CAC, Glasgow (2008); ''Experience, Memory, Re-enactment'', Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam/Revolver, Frankfurt (with Anke Bangma and Florian Wuest) (2005); ''The Milgram Re-enactment'', Revolver, Frankfurt (2003). He has written for a variety of art magazines including Dot Dot Dot, Metropolis M, Mute, Casco Issues. Rushton is founding co-editor of London-based everything Magazine (1992-2001).<ref> everything Magazine issue 2:4 The Creamy Issue (1998); Everything Magazine 3.4. ISSN 13617699 (2001) Note: The editorial collective Everything Editorial comprised Steve Rushton, Luci Eyers, Vivienne Gaskin and John Timberlake.</ref>. The magazine emphasised the activities of artist run initiatives and commissioned texts and art pieces by artists. In 1996 Rushton founded Everything On-line (with Luci Eyers), which became a commissioning agency for web-based art projects  <ref>Mute Issue Everything On Line (Digital Publishing Feature) By Josephine Berry, 10 January 1997. https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/everything-line-digital-publishing-feature</ref>


Rushton is a founding member of Signal:Noise (2011-2012) an experimental cross-disciplinary research project that aimed to explore the influence of cybernetics and information theory on contemporary cultural life by testing out its central idiom, “feedback”, through debates, artworks, publications, performances, events and exhibitions. <ref>The project was led by Steve Rushton, Dexter Sinister (David Reinfurt and Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey ), Marina Vishmidt, Rod Dickinson and Emily Pethick. See: https://www.theshowroom.org/projects/signal-noise</ref>
Rushton has been a writer for a range of projects with artists, including Closed Circuit (Rod Dickinson in collaboration with Steve Rushton 2010), <ref>https://www.roddickinson.net/pages/closedcircuit/project-synopsis.php</ref> Who, What, Where, When, Why & How (Rod Dickinson in collaboration with Steve Rushton 2009), <ref>https://www.digitalartlab.org.il/skn/en/c6/e2649/Art_Works/Who_What_Where_When_Why_and_How</ref> A Short Film About War (script in collaboration with Thomson & Craighead 2009), <ref>https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/slide/warfilm.html</ref> the Channel 4 project Flat Earth (script in collaboration with Thomson & Craighead 2007). <ref>https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/flat-earth.html</ref>


 
Rushton has taught on the MA arts programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam; on the MA Fine ART (2004-2018),<ref>https://www.pzwart.nl/master-fine-art/</ref> MA Lens-Based Media /Network Media (2010-2024)<ref> https://www.pzwart.nl/lens-based/</ref> and MA Experimental Publishing (2018-present) <ref>https://www.pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/</ref> as a thesis supervisor in the Graduate Research Seminars,<ref>https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Graduate_Seminar_2022-2023</ref>  and as leader of the Reading, Writing and Research Methodologies seminar.<ref>https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Methods_lens-based</ref>
'''Current project (perpetually{{underconstruction|in-process}})'''
''The Fabulous Loop de Loop''
 
https://hub.xpub.nl/fabulousloopdeloop/index.php/Main_Page
 
'''A few past projects'''
 
''Closed Circuit'':
 
(article related to)
 
http://www.aksioma.org/closed_circuit/steve_rushton.html
 
(video clip of)
 
https://www.roddickinson.net/pages/closedcircuit/project-video.php
 
''Short Film About War'':
 
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/warfilm.html

Latest revision as of 15:44, 24 September 2024

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Steve Rushton (1959) is a writer, editor and educator based in Rotterdam.

Rushton is currently working on the ongoing wiki project The Fabulous Loop de Loop: A cybernetic discourse as read through seven feedback machines[1] and on the experimental novel Megafauna.

Publications include:The PostScriptUM Anthology (2010–2023) Essays on Art, Technology, Society and the Environment, Daphne Dragona, Domenico Quaranta, Eds, Aksioma Press, 2024 (anthology); Information, Documents in Contemporary Art, Sarah Cook, Ed., MIT Press, 2016 (anthology); Signal Noise Bulletin 1, AIR Berlin (2010); the series How Media Master Reality for First / Last Newspaper, issues 1-6, Dexter Sinister (2009); New Walden, HB2, Issue 1, CAC, Glasgow (2008); Experience, Memory, Re-enactment, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam/Revolver, Frankfurt (with Anke Bangma and Florian Wuest) (2005); The Milgram Re-enactment, Revolver, Frankfurt (2003). He has written for a variety of art magazines including Dot Dot Dot, Metropolis M, Mute, Casco Issues. Rushton is founding co-editor of London-based everything Magazine (1992-2001).[2]. The magazine emphasised the activities of artist run initiatives and commissioned texts and art pieces by artists. In 1996 Rushton founded Everything On-line (with Luci Eyers), which became a commissioning agency for web-based art projects [3]

Rushton is a founding member of Signal:Noise (2011-2012) an experimental cross-disciplinary research project that aimed to explore the influence of cybernetics and information theory on contemporary cultural life by testing out its central idiom, “feedback”, through debates, artworks, publications, performances, events and exhibitions. [4] Rushton has been a writer for a range of projects with artists, including Closed Circuit (Rod Dickinson in collaboration with Steve Rushton 2010), [5] Who, What, Where, When, Why & How (Rod Dickinson in collaboration with Steve Rushton 2009), [6] A Short Film About War (script in collaboration with Thomson & Craighead 2009), [7] the Channel 4 project Flat Earth (script in collaboration with Thomson & Craighead 2007). [8]

Rushton has taught on the MA arts programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam; on the MA Fine ART (2004-2018),[9] MA Lens-Based Media /Network Media (2010-2024)[10] and MA Experimental Publishing (2018-present) [11] as a thesis supervisor in the Graduate Research Seminars,[12] and as leader of the Reading, Writing and Research Methodologies seminar.[13]

  1. https://hub.xpub.nl/rushtonhosts/fabulousloopdeloop/index.php?title=Main_Page
  2. everything Magazine issue 2:4 The Creamy Issue (1998); Everything Magazine 3.4. ISSN 13617699 (2001) Note: The editorial collective Everything Editorial comprised Steve Rushton, Luci Eyers, Vivienne Gaskin and John Timberlake.
  3. Mute Issue Everything On Line (Digital Publishing Feature) By Josephine Berry, 10 January 1997. https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/everything-line-digital-publishing-feature
  4. The project was led by Steve Rushton, Dexter Sinister (David Reinfurt and Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey ), Marina Vishmidt, Rod Dickinson and Emily Pethick. See: https://www.theshowroom.org/projects/signal-noise
  5. https://www.roddickinson.net/pages/closedcircuit/project-synopsis.php
  6. https://www.digitalartlab.org.il/skn/en/c6/e2649/Art_Works/Who_What_Where_When_Why_and_How
  7. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/slide/warfilm.html
  8. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/flat-earth.html
  9. https://www.pzwart.nl/master-fine-art/
  10. https://www.pzwart.nl/lens-based/
  11. https://www.pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/
  12. https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Graduate_Seminar_2022-2023
  13. https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Methods_lens-based