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Ben Rubin

Ben Rubin
Rubin
Background information
Birth name	Benjamin Rubin
Born	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres	Media Art, Data Art, Sound Design
Occupation(s)	Media Artist, Designer
Years active	1993–present

Ben Rubin is a media artist and designer based in New York City. He is best known for his data-driven media installations and public artworks, including Listening Post (2001-2003)^[1][2] and Moveable Type (2007), both created in collaboration with statistician and journalism professor Mark Hansen. Since 2015, Rubin has served as the director of the Center for Data Arts at The New School, where he is an Associate Professor of Design.

Life and Education

Rubin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1964. He graduated from Brown University in 1987 with an AB degree in Computer Science and Semiotics. He went on to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied with Ricky Leacock and Glorianna Davenport, earning an MS in Visual Studies at the MIT Media Lab in 1989. Rubin moved to New York in 1993. In 1998, he founded Electronic Arts Research (EAR), a multimedia art and design studio. He co-founded The Office for Creative Research in 2013, along with data artist Jer Thorp and, statistician Mark Hansen. Rubin joined the faculty of The New School in 2015, becoming the director of the Center for Data Arts.

Art Career

Rubin’s work uses computational methods, including Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, to engage with cultural source material (art collections, literary works, public documents, news, and social media). His work takes a variety of forms, including sculpture, projections, sound installations, immersive environments, and live performance.

His works have been exhibited at Whitney Museum of American Art, Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Art Institute of Chicago, Fondation Cartier in Paris, Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Vancouver Art Gallery, Skirball Center in Los Angeles (in a show organized by the Getty Museum), Brooklyn Academy of Music and San Jose Museum of Art.

In addition to his own work, Rubin has collaborated with a wide range of people, including musicians and composers (Arto Lindsey, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Geoge Lewis, Richard Teitlebaum, Zeena Parkins), architects (Diller+Scofidio / Renfro, James Polshek, Rafael Pelli, Renzo Piano, SOM), artists (Anne Hamilton, Lorna Simpson), and philosophers (Bruno Latour, Paul Virilio). Many of Rubin’s most important works were created in the course of his longtime collaboration with statistician Mark Hansen.

Rubin has been resident artist at the Steim Foundation Amsterdam, Banff Centre For The Arts Alberta, On the Boards Seattle, and Brooklyn Academy of Music and Bell Laboratories. In 2014, The Office of Creative Research was part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.

Public Art

Rubin’s commissioned work is permanently installed at the New York Times building and the Public Theater in New York, as well as at the headquarters of Adobe Sytsems in San Jose, California, and Brookfield Place, Calgary. His public art installation And That’s The Way It Is (2012) at the University of Texas campus in Austin, a text based video inspired by broadcast television news from Walter Cronkite's newscasts and other contemporary news feeds won the CoD+A Award in 2013. In a GalleryLOG interview, Rubin said - "Walter Cronkite galvanized what (journalistic) work really means - a world in which journalists aspire to essentially get the story right. It's an aspiration that, almost by definition, can never be really met. But, the aspiration is always to tell the truth, to describe the world the way it is."^[3]

• Herald / Harbinger, Brookfield Place, Calgary (with Jer Thorp) 2018
• Shakespeare Machine, The Public Theater 2012^[5]

• And That’s the Way It Is, University of Texas, Austin 2012  ^[6][7]

• Beacon, Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia 2010 ^[8][9]
• Teardrop Park, Battery Park City (with Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil) 2009^[10][11]
• Moveable Type, New York Times Building (with Mark Hansen) 2007 ^[12][13]
• Can You Not Tell Water from Air, Morimoto Sushi Bar, Boca Raton FL 2008  
• San Jose Semaphore, Adobe Systems, San Jose 2006 ^[14][15]
• Four Stories, New Central Public Library, Minneapolis 2006  ^[16]
• Blur, Swiss Expo ’02, Yverdon, Switzerland (with Diller+Scofidio) 2002 ^[17]
• Video Beam, Brasserie Restaurant, New York (with Diller+Scofidio) 2000 ^[18][19]
• Jump Cuts, United Artists Multiplex, San Jose (with Diller+Scofidio) 1996 ^{[20] [21]}

Teaching

Between 1997 and 2002, Rubin taught at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. In 2004, he joined as Critic in Yale School of Art's MFA in Graphic Design program where he remained until 2006.

Performance

In 1988, while still in graduate school at MIT, Rubin was hired by Beryl Korot and music composer Steve Reich.^[4] to develop technology for their multimedia opera, The Cave, which premiered in Vienna in 1993. In 1994, Rubin began his long term collaboration with Laurie Anderson, creating software and technical solutions for her performance tours, including Nerve Bible (1994), Songs and Stories from Moby Dick (1998? -- check), Dal Vivo (1998), and numerous installation projects.

Rubin was a founding member of The Builders Association theater company, creating performance software, sound designs, and projections with the group from 1994 through 1996.

Starting in 2007, Rubin began an ongoing series of collaborations with the New York-based theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service (ERS), developing a performance installation called Shuffle (2009-2014) that remixed text from three 1920s American novels. In 2013, Rubin won an Obie Award for his projection design for Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo, a theatrical piece based on U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments that debuted at the Public Theater in New York.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

• Vectors, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York 2011
• Listening Post, Art Collection of the Science Museum, London (with Mark Hansen) 2008
• A Ticking Sound, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York 2006
• Listening Post, Whitney Museum of American Art (with Mark Hansen) 2002
• Listening Post, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music (with Mark Hansen) 2001  
• Not Dreaming in Public, Whitney Museum of American Art (with Leni Schwendinger) 1995  

Group Exhibitions

• GLOBALE: Infosphere, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany 2016
• Grand Hotel, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2013
• Now Boarding, Denver Art Museum, Denver 2012  
• Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, MoMA, New York 2011    
• Decode: Digital Design Sensations, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2010  
• On Gaps and Silent Documents, STUK Arts Centre Leuven, Belgium 2010  
• Quick, Quick, Slow: Word, Image and Time, Experimenta Design Lisboa, Lisbon 2009  
• Textual Landscapes, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York. 2009  
• Enter Action - Digital Art Now, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark 2009  
• Terre Natale, Fondation Cartier, Paris 2008  
• Machines and Souls, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid 2008  
• LIVE, Beall Center for Art and Technology at University of California, Irvine 2008  
• In the Beginning: Artists Envision Genesis, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco 2008  
• For Reasons of State, The Kitchen, New York 2008  
• Dark Matters, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2007  
• Kit Bashing, Western Bridge, Seattle 2007  
• Open House, Vitra Design Museum at Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany 2006  
• Derivatives: new art financial visions, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2006  
• Making Things Public, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany 2005  
• Sign Language, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York 2004  
• Zones de Confluences, La Villette Numérique, Paris 2004  
• Son et Lumière, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA 2004  
• Tactical Action, Gigantic Art Space, New York 2004  
• Social Capital, Whitney Museum of American Art 2004  
• Picture This: Windows on the American Home, National Building Museum, Washington DC 2003  
• Sonic Garden, presented by Creative Time at the Winter Garden, New York 2002  
• Habitats Techtonicas, Sala de Exposiciones en Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid 2001  
• Volume: Bed of Sound, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York 2000  
• Cell Rules, presented by Creative Time at the Meat Market Art Fair, New York 2000  
• Ann Hamilton’s Myein, Venice Biennale (soundtrack) 1999
• Art in the Anchorage, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn 1997
• Gramercy Art Fair, Henry Urbach Architecture 1997  
• Code, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York 1995  
• The Tuning of the World, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary 1993  

Awards

• Obie Award for Projection Design for Arguendo 2014
• Drama Desk nomination for Projection Design for Arguendo 2014
• CoD+A Award Winner, Public Spaces category for And That’s the Way it Is 2013
• NYC Public Design Commission Excellence in Design Award for Shakespeare Machine 2013
• Public Art Network year-in-review, selection for And That’s the Way it Is 2013  
• CoD+A Awards top 100 projects, Public Spaces Category for Shakespeare Machine 2013
• Public Art Dialog PAD Award for achievement in the field of public art 2012 
• Prix Ars Electronica, Golden Nica Award for Listening Post (with Mark Hansen) 2004
• Third Coast International Audio Festival Documentary Award for Open Outcry 2003  
• Webby Award, NetArt category, for Listening Post (with Mark Hansen) 2003
• Wired Rave Award nomination for Listening Post (with Mark Hansen) 2003