Peter Ride

Peter Ride is Director & Senior Research Fellow at The Centre for Arts Research, Technology and Education (CARTE) at the University of Westminster, UK. 

Ride's research emphasis is on practice-based research into the field of digital media arts and interdisciplinary arts practice. He was one of the first curators in the UK to develop internet and digitally networked arts projects.  

Recent projects include curating a retrospective of work by David Rokeby ‘Silicon Remembers Carbon’ shown in the UK and Canada (2007/8) and group exhibitions such as ‘Timeless: time, landscape and new media’ (Toronto, 2005). Ongoing action-research projects are developed with artists to create innovative collaborations. These include: 'Cell' an investigation into new theories about adult stem cell development with a medical-scientist, visual artist, computer scientist, and an artificial-life computer programmer.  

He is the co-author with Prof Andrew Dewdney of ‘The New Media Handbook’, Routledge, 2006.

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.