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Ben Rubin (b. 1964, Boston, Massachusetts) is a media artist based in New York City. Rubin’s work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Science Museum, London, and has been shown at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, and the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. Rubin has created large-scale public artworks for the New York Times, the city of San José, and the Minneapolis Public Library. He is currently developing a site-specific sculpture called Shakespeare Machine for the Public Theater in New York, and just completed Beacon (2010), a luminous rooftop sculpture commissioned for National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

Rubin has worked closely with major figures in contemporary culture, including composer Steve Reich, architects Diller+Scofidio/Renfro, Renzo Piano, James Polsheck, and James Sanders, performers Laurie Anderson and Arto Lindsay, theorists Bruno Latour and Paul Virilio, and artists Ann Hamilton and Beryl Korot. He frequently collaborates with UCLA statistician Mark Hansen, and their joint projects include Moveable Type (2007), and Listening Post (2002), which won the 2004 Golden Nica Prize from Ars Electronica as well as a Webby award in 2003. In 2011, Rubin and Mark Hansen will join forces with the Elevator Repair Service theater ensemble to present Shuffle, a new performance and installation that will re-mix text from three American novels of the 1920s.

Mr. Rubin received a B.A. from Brown University in 1987 and an M.S. from the MIT Media Lab in 1989. Mr. Rubin has taught at the Bard MFA program and the Yale School of Art, where he was appointed critic in graphic design in 2004. During the Fall of 2010, he taught a new graduate seminar, “An Anecdotal History of Sound,” at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.
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Ben Rubin, né en 1964 à Boston (Etats-Unis), vit à New York. Il travaille dans le champ de l’art numérique et du media design.

Après une double formation en sémiotique et en informatique et un passage par le Media Lab du MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Rubin a travaillé à partir du milieu des années 1990 sur des installations et des performances qui mettent en jeu les formes contemporaines du texte (messagerie instantanée, journaux, romans, théâtre, code informatique), en explorant les zones de flou entre la fiction et la réalité.

Rubin a collaboré avec de nombreux créateurs, dont le compositeur Steve Reich, les architectes Renzo Piano, le studio de design interdisciplinaire Diller Scofidio + Renfro, les musiciens et performeurs Laurie Anderson et Arto Linsay, des chercheurs comme Bruno Latour.

Les œuvres de Ben Rubin sont présentées dans de nombreux lieux d’art à travers le monde, comme l’Art Institute (Chicago), le Whitney Museum (New York), le Musée Reina Sofia (Madrid), le ZKM (Karlsruhe).

Ben Rubin collabore régulièrement avec le statisticien et artiste Mark Hansen, chercheur à UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles), avec qui il a créé Listening Post en 2002.