Peter Ride

Introduction / CV

Peter Ride is Senior Research Fellow and Joint Director of CARTE. Through commissioning and producing new work, he is addressing the way that artists can use digital technology and develop new forms and systems that enable them to create innovative work. He is also exploring the processes of new media arts production, including how the roles of curators and producers of new media are changing and investigating the ways that digital arts projects are developed out of collaborative research with industry and academic sectors.

Peter is the Artistic Director of DA2, Digital Arts Development Agency, an organisation that develops commissions, artist residencies and curatorial training schemes. This role provides the focus for his research activity at CARTE through action research involving new projects.

Previously he was the Arts Programme co-ordinator for Artec, the Arts Technology Centre, London (1995-7), the Director of Cambridge Darkroom Gallery (1992-5). He was educated at the Australian National University.