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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 Joseâ€™s Office of Cultural Affairâ€™s Public Art Program. Located within the top floors of Adobeâ€™s Almaden Tower headquarters in San Jose, [...]

Four Stories

Built into the structure of the two glass elevator cabs in Library Hall, “Four Stories” displays the titles of recently checked-out books in large, illuminated text as the elevators move between floors. This text is visible from much of the Library Hall. “Four Stories” is a permanent public artwork commissioned by the city of Minneapolis. [...]

Dark Source

Dark Source shows the inner workings of a commercial electronic voting machine, the Diebold AccuVote-TSâ„¢ 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 [...]

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 [...]

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