www.furtherfield.org/rcatlow/
Ruth Catlow is an artist and co director of furtherfield. org. She works with a range of digital and network media as well as sculpture, writing, music and drawing, exhibiting in the streets and other public spaces, in galleries and on the Internet. Most of the works connect with specific (often unsuspecting) audiences in a specific condition i.e. on their way to work, doing the shopping, taking the kids to school etc. Or they intersect strangely with dominant and pre established genres in the mass media such as pornography on the Internet. In this way Ruth communicates her intimate and often raw perception of the big human subjects of love, sex, community, responsibility and freedom. Her recent projects explore personal expressions/representations of sexuality both domestic and mythic. They are Domestic Idols, Mesmerized and Time to Smell the Flowers. Latest projects include a series of short films for the web such as 'Responsibility is yours' featured by Zbooks and 'One Among 400,000' a javascript driven collage of text, image and sound about the protest in London to stop the war against Iraq. Ruth formed furtherfield.org in partnership with artist Marc Garrett in 1996 as an alternative platform for the creation, promotion, and archiving of new work for public viewing and interaction.