WORKING CONCEPT: Ben Rubin was recommended by the Lights On Tampa jury to design a major iconic sculpture for the City of Tampa. This project will not be completed in time for the January 10th 2009 kick-off date, however a prototype of the sculpture is expected to be unveiled by this date.
BRIEF BIO: Ben Rubin is a media artist based in New York City. He completed two major public artworks in 2006: "San Jose Semaphore" for the city of San Jose, California, and "Four Stories" for the Minneapolis Public Library. Mr. Rubin's 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. Mr. Rubin teaches at the Yale School of Art, where he was appointed critic in graphic design in 2004.
