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

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).. The magazine emphasised the activities of artist run initiatives and commissioned texts and art works by artists. In 1996 Rushton co-edited (with Luci Eyers) Everything On-line, which became a commisioning agency for web-based art projects

Steve Rushton is a founding member of Signal:Noise (2011-2012) 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. 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).

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