Ruth Catlow
Ruth Catlow is an artist, curator and educator. As co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield.org, a grass roots media arts organisation and its gallery (formerly HTTP) in North London, she works at the intersection of art, technology and social change with artists, curators, musicians, programmers, writers, activists and thinkers from around the world. She is currently developing the artistic programme and organisational infrastructure with a focus on Media Art Ecologies, aspiring to engender shared visions and infrastructures for other possible worlds.
Ruth is an experienced producer and commissioner of successful co-devised, participatory artworks that utilise social technologies, events and performance in diverse settings. She regularly contributes to publications, books and conferences and has participated in exhibitions at CCA, Glasgow, The Baltic, Gateshead, Limehouse Town Hall, London as well as galleries in Zagreb, Madrid and Detroit and has work featured on the Rhizome Artbase and The Digital Kitchen. She was a recipient of a 2003 Low-fi Net Art Commission. She is adviser to Tiltfactor an independent games production lab that focuses on critical play.
Ruth is currently employed as Head of School at Writtle School of Design (WSD) where she is looking to support interdisciplinary work and exchange with other sustainability and land-based disciplines within the college and with local, national and international partners. WSD is in the top four Art and Design institutions nationally (Guardian University Guide 2011).
