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Ben Rubin

Ben Rubin is a media artist based in New York City. He is the creator (with Mark Hansen) of "Moveable Type" (2007), a large-scale public artwork for the lobby of the New York Times headquarters building. He is currently developing a site-specific sculpture called "Shakespeare Machine" for the Public Theater in New York and a luminous rooftop beacon for a new museum in Philadelphia. Other recent public artworks include "San Jose Semaphore" for the city of San Jose, California, and "Four Stories" for the Minneapolis Public Library, both completed in 2006. Mr. Rubin's work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark, 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. Rubin has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Diller+Scofidio, Ann Hamilton, Arto Lindsay, Bruno Latour, Paul Virilio, Steve Reich, and Beryl Korot, among others. 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. Rubin has also been the sound designer for numerous exhibitions, films, theatrical productions, consumer products, and medical devices. 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. Mr. Rubin has taught courses at ITP, The NYU Undergraduate Film and Television Program, the Bard MFA program, and the Yale School of Art, where he was appointed critic in graphic design in 2004.