Sound

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 Virilioâ€™s Stop-Eject exhibition in 2008.Â 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:Â 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:Â 13 January, 6-8pm Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new [...]

An Anecdotal History of Sound and Light

In the fall of 2010, I taught a graduate seminar at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program wove threads through the creative and scientific histories of sound and light.Â The course blog is here. -BR

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 [...]

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 [...]

Architecture Based on Sound Principles

“Joel Sanders and Karen Van Lengen should run for office. They’re two of few leaders we can think of who practice what they preach.” (from UVA Today) So says a new article about the architects in the magazine Interior Design. EAR Studio agrees! Sanders and Van Lengen’s new Sound Lounge at the University of Virginia [...]