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).