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Listening Post

Listening Post is an art installation by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small [...]

Spin

Sound is produced as if each disc were a phonograph record. As each disc spins fast or slow, backwards or forwards, speeding up or slowing down, its sound follows accordingly. Presented at the Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibition, Seattle. August 26th – September 1st, 2003 Press Look and Listen: Ben Rubin gives shape to sound The [...]

Open Outcry

Commissioned by Creative Time for Sonic Garden World Financial Center, New York October 17th, 2002 – November 30th, 2002 Winner of Best Documentary: Honorable Mention at the 2003 Third Coast International Audio Festival / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Featured on Chicago Public Radio’s Third Coast Festival under “What We’re Listening To:”. Includes an interview [...]

Story Pipeline

In the BPEC community center in Anchorage, Alaska, stories told by Alaskans appear on a plasma video screen and simultaneously emerge as real-time text transcriptions on a 150 long LED display. The text zig-zags indoors down a glass corridor, then veers out through the plate glass, dancing between the trees until it disappears out of [...]

Blur

Ear Studio collaborated with Diller+Scofidio on the media and interactive aspects of Blur, the Â centerpiece pavilion of Swiss Expo 2002. A football field-sized suspended platform shrouded in a Â perpetual cloud of man-made fog, the Blur Pavilion was to host an interactive media project featuring Â wearable, wireless technology embedded into “Brain Coats,” technologically-enhanced raincoats. Â Visitorsâ€™ Brain [...]

Brasserie

Customers entering through the revolving door are photographed by a video camera. An ephemeral record of the clientele emerges as the images shift to the right each time a new arrival appears on the leftmost screen. Together with the architecture, the video installation plays on the notion of a “grand entrance.” The Brasserie won the [...]

Ben Rubin’s Dark Source in Artefact Festival

What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? The Artefact Festival, at the STUK Arts Center in Leuven, Belgium, ran from February 9-14, 2010 and featured Ben Rubin’s artwork, Dark Source, as part of its exploration into the [...]

His Master’s Voice

Shown in the exhibition: In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis In the Beginning re-imagines the first chapter of Genesis through a series of commissioned works by dynamic and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists including: Alan Berliner, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Matthew Ritchie, Ben Rubin, and Shirley Shor. Featuring diverse conceptual approaches and artistic practices, the artists [...]

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