Art

BEACON at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia

Beacon (2010) is an light sculpture created by media artist Ben Rubin; its animated shapes are based on the unique visual structure of the pages of the Talmud. It was commissioned by the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, where it was permanently installed in November, 2010. The Talmud is the central document of Jewish law, [...]

The VECTORS show at Bryce Wolkowitz

14 January – 18 February, 2011 Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery 505 W24th Street (at 10th Ave), New York, NY 10011 The idea for Vectors began with my participation in Paul Virilio’s Stop-Eject exhibition in 2008. Stop-Eject centered around the collapse of geographic and political space in the mobile, connected world, and Virilio wanted the artists to [...]

VECTORS opens January 13, 2011

Feb 5, 2011: New photos videos, and descriptions are HERE Preliminary press information and background is below: Ben Rubin VECTORS Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery 14 January – 18 February, 2011 505 W24th Street (at 10th Ave), New York, NY 10011 Opening Reception: 13 January, 6-8pm Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new [...]

Moveable Type

Moveable Type, by New York artist Ben Rubin and U.C.L.A. associate professor Mark Hansen, is an artwork commissioned for the ground-floor lobby of The New York Times Building in New York City. It is a dynamic portrait of The Times. Statistical methods and natural-language processing algorithms are used to parse the daily output of the [...]

Terre Natale, or Native Land, Stop Eject

Terre Natale, or Native Land, Stop Eject, was an exhibition organized by Raymond Depardon & Paul Virilio and originally shown at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. Part of Terre Natale, “Exits, Parts 1 & 2,” was created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, and Ben Rubin. From the Cartier [...]

San Jose Semaphore

SEMAPHORE: a visual apparatus for communicating messages over distance. San Jose Semaphore (2006), by artist Ben Rubin, is a permanent public artwork commissioned by Adobe Systems Incorporated in collaboration with the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affair’s Public Art Program. Located within the top floors of Adobe’s Almaden Tower headquarters in San Jose, [...]

Dark Source

Dark Source shows the inner workings of a commercial electronic voting machine, the Diebold AccuVote-TS™ touch-screen voting terminal that has recently been adopted in many U.S. states. What you see here is a representation of the software program that runs inside this machines. To be specific, it is a printout of version 4.3.1 of the [...]

Sign Language

In Ben Rubin’s new pieces, texts extracted from topical online sources emerge from tubes of moving light. For (in)stability (2003), created in response to the war in Iraq, Rubin (working with Mark Hansen) filtered 1,000 online news articles five days after the 2003 U.S. invasion and extracted the most commonly cited quote: “The situation is [...]

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