User:Steve Rushton

From XPUB & Lens-Based wiki
Revision as of 12:27, 8 September 2021 by Steve Rushton (talk | contribs)


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.[1]

Profile.png




Current project (perpetuallyConstruction.gif 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

  1. 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).