Beth Carruthers Biography
My work has for more than 20 years explored the ethics of the human-world relationship.
Academically, my focus is Posthumanism, Ethics, Ontology and the role of the Aesthetic in engendering Environmental Values. I write, publish and lecture internationally.
I also work as an independent consultant in Arts & Sustainability. In 2006 I was commissioned by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO to create a major report on arts/science collaboration in Ecological Art Practices.
In the summer of 2209, I co-developed and led the first Arts & Sustainability initiative in Dubai, U.A.E. - A Green Vision - which was designed to introduce the language of sustainability to arts and design within Dubai and to be a template for further development.
As Founding Co-Director of the SongBird project and the Society for Arts & Ecology in Practice (1997 through 2002), I co-developed one of the first comprehensive science/arts collaborative organisations in Canada with a focus on Arts & Sustainability within urban communities.
I am pleased to be a member of the international curatorial advisory for the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) in Devon, England.
My current project explores the ethical dimensions of aesthetic engagement.
