Cynthia Beth Rubin
Most Recent Affiliation / Department / Job Title:
- University of Vermont and Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Art, Artist
Bio:
ISEA2014
Cynthia-Beth Rubin, Rhode Island School of Design, US, is a new media artist working in still imagery, video and interactivity. Trained as a painter, she began working in digital imagery in 1984, before the days of easy scanning and digital photography. While still enmeshed in the thinking of abstract expressionism, her search for new influences led her first to Islamic Art and eventually to Hebrew and then Christian manuscripts and the historic sense of place. Recently, this sense of place has led to an exploration of the hidden microscopic life in our waters and she became an honorary artist in residence in the Menden‑Deuer lab of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.
ISEA2011
Cynthia Beth Rubin is a new media artist whose imagery evokes memories of culture, place. Digital for over 25 years, Rubin’s prints, moving imagery, and inter-active installations have been shown in the Jewish Museum in Prague, opening night of the both the San Francisco and the Boston Jewish Film Festivals, the Pandaemonium Festival in London, Lavall Gallery in Novosibirsk, and diverse venues around the world. Awards include multiple Connecticut Commission fellowships, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the New England Foundation on the Arts, as well as a residency at Vidéochroniques in Marseilles and other international residencies, . Rubin works independently and in collaboration, and teaches part-time at the Rhode Island School of Design, US.
ISEA1997
Cynthia Beth Rubin is an independent computer artist working in Providence, where she teaches part-time at the Rhode Island School of Design.Trained as a painter (MFA 1975, Maryland Institute, College of Art/ BA 1972 Antioch College), she began the transition to electronic media in 1984. She attended her first ISEA in 1990 as an exhibitor, and since then has exhibited at a variety of international venues including subsequent ISEAs, SIGGRAPH, Imagina, ARCADE, and other exhibitions in Brazil, Israel, Canada, the Netherlands, and France, Inherited Memories, her most recent animation„ screened at SIGGRAPH 1997, and her previous animation, les affinites recouvrees, screened at ISEA95, the CODE show (New York City), the Pandemonium Festival (London), Jewish Film Festival (San Francisco), Vue sur les Docs (Marseille), Candid Camera (Lodz), and Festival Art Video (Casa Blanca), among others. Working with photographic sources as a point of departure, her animations and still images recall cultural legacies from times and places beyond her personal experience, merged with references to her own life. Focusing on Jewish cultural history, she uses the computer to layer, morph and fuse image fragments together, replicating the subjective experience of memory.
ISEA1995
Cynthia Rubin is on the faculty of the University of Vermont, was trained as a painter and today works with a computer, creating images which focus on cultural retrieval.
ISEA1994:
Cynthia Beth Rubin is on the faculty at the University of Vermont, USA, where she is responsible for the computer area within the Department of Art. Working in fixed imagery and animation, she uses the computer as a means to engage in cultural dialogue, integrating images from diverse epochs and cultures. Her work was shown most recently at the Rendezvous d’Imagina in Paris and Marseilles, the Kalisher computer art show in Tel Aviv, and Imagine 94 in Utrecht.
Current Location:
- United States of America
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Art Events:
Toledo Page
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [2D Art]
[TISEA]
Remembering Home
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [2D Art]
[TISEA]
Another Time
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [2D Art]
[TISEA]
After Cordoba
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [2D Art]
[TISEA]
Polish Dreams
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [2D Art]
[ISEA96]
Gothic Arch
Categories: [Art Exhibition] [2D Art]
[SISEA]
Symposium Presentations:
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AGM (Annual General ISEA Meeting)
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Title:
The Computer and Artistic Process: Breaking the Confines of Traditional Media
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SISEA
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Title: Quoting and Appropriation: Whose Art is It?
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TISEA
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Title: The Ambiguity Zone: Which Dimension Am I In?
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TISEA
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Title: Output Sufferings: After the Virtual
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ISEA94
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Title: Running to Stay in Place: Faculty Burnout in the Electronic Arts, Proposed Guidelines for Faculty in Computer-based Media in Art and Design
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ISEA94
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Title: Breaking the Code: Art that Does Not Stand on its Own
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ISEA96
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Title: A Multi-Cultural ISEA
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ISEA97
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Title: Memoirs
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ISEA2000
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Title: Hiding Spaces: A Cave of Elusive Immateriality
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ISEA2002
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Title: Digital Paint to Digital Photography: The Long Reach of Abstract Expressionism
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ISEA2011
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Title: Untitled
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ISEA2011
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Title: ACM Siggraph Digital Arts Community
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ISEA2014
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Title: Sensing Science: The Microscopic Environment as Subject
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ISEA2014
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Title: Digital Arts Committee of ACM SIGGRAPH
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ISEA2015
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