Ruth Catlow

name Ruth Catlow

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Bio

I am an artist, and Co-Founder and Artistic Director with Marc Garrett of Furtherfield, an art-led platform for arts, technology and social change since 1996. From our base in the heart of Finsbury Park, London, and online, we host and tour art shows, labs and debates around critical questions in arts and technology, with local relevance and an international reach.

I work and play with emancipatory network cultures, practices and poetics to engender shared visions and new cultural infrastructures.

I blog my work here at ruthcatlow.net

Projects

Play Your Place

Play Your Place is an online game in which residents draw, make and play their future town, by artists Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield) and Dr Mary Flanagan (Tiltfactor).

WWW: World Wild Web

The artists in this exhibition introduce us to the unruly life going on where technical networks meet natural webs of communication, knowledge and feral exchange. Gallery visitors (humans and dogs) view videos, interact with art installations and social media and undertake walks in the surrounding park with its other animals and edible plants.

Featuring Paula Crutchlow & Helen Varley Jamieson, Andy Deck, Mary Flanagan, Genetic Moo, Dominic Smith, and Sarah Waterson.

Invisible Forces

Our social, economic and cultural institutions are being dismantled. Control over the provision of social care, urban and rural development, education and freedom of expression, is being redistributed to private enterprise at a global level. Undeterred artist-visionaries respond to these invisible forces with clear eyes, spontaneity, experimentation, play and a sense of adventure.

The resulting mix of installations, digital video, net art, painting and drawings deal with conspiracy, money, politics, hidden signals and frustration fatigue.

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

Being Social

Since the 90s the Internet and mobile networks have grown as cultural spaces for interaction - wild and banal, bureaucratic and controlling - producing new ways of 'being social'. Explore how our lives - personal and political - are being shaped by digital technologies.

Featuring Annie Abrahams, Karen Blissett, Ele Carpenter, Emilie Giles, moddr_ , Liz Sterry and Thomson and Craighead.

Furtherfield Gallery
25 February - 28 April 2012

Curated by Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett with Furtherfield

Articles/Reviews/Interviews

Are We All Addicts Now? An interview with Katriona Beales

Katriona Beales discusses her artwork made in response to her research into online addictions, as part of her upcoming exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery.

By Ruth Catlow - 12/09/2017

Pawnshop - the Greek Reality Board Game

What is the relationship between state corruption and economic collapse in Greece? Lina Theodorou, artist and creator of the board game 'Pawnshop', talks with Furtherfield’s Ruth Catlow about Grexit, Brexit, and crisis in Europe.

By Ruth Catlow - 30/08/2016

Situating the Digital Commons. A conversation between Ruth Catlow and Tim Waterman

The negotiation of the commons takes place in two distinct realms that are increasingly reaching into and shaping one another: the long history of the landscape commons both in cities and in the countryside, and across digital networks. In this conversation Ruth Catlow and Tim Waterman discuss the ‘Reading the Commons’ project together with Furtherfield’s work on understanding the commons.

By Ruth Catlow, Tim-Waterman - 28/10/2015

Capture All_Play - An interview with McKenzie Wark

Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow interview McKenzie Wark ahead of his keynote speach, Capture All_Play at Transmediale 2015 in Berlin this year. They discuss with him how our everyday lives have been infiltrated by competitive game-like mechanisms, that he described more than a decade ago.

By Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow - 27/01/2015

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

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Crank Aesthetics

Crank Aesthetics are ludicrous aesthetic claims or theories. They are often the product of more general ludicrous claims or theories.

By Rob Myers on 6 Feb 2011 - 7:36pm

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