ATC Lecture: Ben Rubin, What's That Ticking Sound? November 9, 2009

Media artist Ben Rubin's work inserts itself between authors and readers, obsessively pulverizing and re-synthesizing all manner of texts (internet chat, The New York Times, application source code, cosmic background noise, Shakespeare) to form new messages. Rubin will present his recent projects, including "Moveable Type" (2007), a large-scale public artwork in the lobby of the New York Times headquarters building, "Shakespeare Machine", a sculpture for the Public Theater in New York and a luminous rooftop beacon for a new museum in Philadelphia, and others Listening Post, Dark Source, and Terre Natale. He will also present his latest project in collaboration with statistician Mark Hansen and Elevator Repair Service, a New York theater company.

Ben Rubin is based in New York City, where he runs his studio. EAR studio serves as a serves as a base of operation for his art and design projects. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, the Skirball Center in Los Angeles (in a show organized by the Getty Museum), the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the San Jose Museum of Art. He has been a frequent collaborator with artists and performers including Laurie Anderson, Diller+Scofidio, Ann Hamilton, Arto Lindsay, Steve Reich, and Beryl Korot. Rubin's installation Listening Post (2002, with statistician Mark Hansen) won the 2004 Golden Nica Prize from Ars Electronica as well as a Webby award in 2003. Mr. Rubin received a B.A. from Brown University in 1987 and an M.S. in visual studies from the MIT Media Lab in 1989. He currently teaches at the Yale School of Art, where he was appointed critic in graphic design in 2004.

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Co-presented with the SF Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Free.

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