contact: info@cbrubin.net
New Haven, CT USA
regularly in New York City and Narragansett Rhode Island, USA
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photo by Bruce Oren
Cynthia Beth Rubin is a Techspressionist new media artist whose works evoke imagined narratives through interwoven layers of representation and abstraction. She is equally fascinated by the imagined memories of cultural history and with envisioning the unseen microscopic life of oceans and still waters, and her current work combines both in unexpected ways, including intertwining microscopic plankton imagery and the cultural legacy of ancient Hebrew manuscripts. She is artist in residence in the Menden-Deuer Oceanography lab at the University of Rhode Island. An early adopter of digital imaging, her transition from paint to computer began in 1984.
Rubin has exhibited in numerous editions of SIGGRAPH exhibitions, and is past Chair of of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee, and past Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, and is a past member of the Board of ISEA, and recently served as a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH selection committee for the SIGGRAPH Academy, which honors our most distinguished members.
Rubin’s prints, videos, and interactive works have been shown on the ICC tower facade in Hong Kong, the Jewish Museum in Prague, the Cotton Club screen in Harlem, the State Museum in Novosibirsk, the ICA in London, and the Jerusalem Biennale, and numerous international festivals featuring digital art, such as ISEA and SIGGRAPH. Her video les affinités recouvrées (Recovered Affinities) was featured opening night of multiple Jewish Film Festivals in 1995 (San Francisco, Boston).
A three-time recipient of grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Rubin has also been awarded international artist residencies and grants from sources as diverse as the Videochroniques (Marseilles) and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.
Exhibitions
The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art, online group exhibition, curated by cari ann shim sham* and Joey zaza October 3 2024 - January 26, 2025
LACDA (LA Center for Digital Art), Reboot invitational group show, October 2024
The Synergy Project: A Collaboration of Art and Science, Studio Blue, GSO URI, Narragansett RI September - January 6, 2025
“Hello Brooklyn!” // Techspressionism, Kingsborough Art Museum, curated by Tommy Mintz, Giovanna Sun, Seungjin Lee, Oceana Andries, Brooklyn NY, August 7 – September 25, 2024
Computer Art Society Members' Exhibition, peer reviewed group exhibition, London July - November 2024
Sensing Connections: A Retrospective Exhibition, BEKI Gallery, New Haven CT, January - April, 2023
Genesis – The Beginning of Creativity; An Interfaith, Intercultural Three Venue Event, New York City, May - July 2023
Together Again at Stanton Street Projects, curated group exhibition, New York, NY, December 2022 – September 2023
ODETTA Digital at Aqua Art Miami, organized by Ellen Hackl Fagan, November 30–December 30, 2022, ongoing online hosted by SHIM Art Network
Ocean View II, URI Providence Campus, invitational group exhibition, April 3-27, 2023
Only One Earth the Flag Project, Rockefeller Center, New York City, juried by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Climate Museum, New York, April 2022
Mayim Chaiyim: A Watershed, Koslow Gallery, group exhibition curated by Amy Levine-Kennedy, Rye NY, Spring 2022
Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond, curated group exhibition, Southampton Arts Center, NY, April 24- June 2022
The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology, and Critical Action
peer reviewed group online exhibition of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community,
January 2022 – ongoingTechspressionism 2021 @ the Wrong Biennale, online exhibition curated by Colin Goldberg and Patrick Lichty, November – December 2021
Techspressionism Brooklyn, one-night only popup show curated by Giovanna Sun, Williamsburg Hotel
DEVOTION – Pavilion #11 @ the Wrong Biennale nº5, online exhibition curated by Roz Dimon, November 2021 – March 2022
III International Triennale of Contemporary Graphic Arts, invitational group exhibition, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Fall 2021
ROUNDNESS, group exhibition coordinated by Susan Turner, online and la Maison des artistes visuels Winnepeg, November 2021
Open Source Festival, online exhibition Artspace New Haven, October 2021
Do Plankton Have Feelings?, Artspace New Haven Exhibition (solo exhibition - curated by Sarah Fritchey), December 2019 – February 2020
International Symposium on Digital Art, D-ART 2020 Online Gallery, written interview and images, Vienna, Austria / Melbourne, Australia, 2020
Open Source, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, curated group exhibition, Los Angeles CA, June 2019 - July 2019
Maniac Episode 6, curated group exhibition, Urban Hive, Sacramento, CA, December 2018 - January 2019
Creative Tech Week Conference Hub, group exhibition - curated by Isabel Scott Draves, New York, NY, April 2018
Science Inspires Art: OCEAN NY Hall of Science, international group exhibition - curated by Diana Moore and John Stegeman, New York, NY, September 2017 - February 2018
Art/Science Collaborations on the High Seas, e-Gallery, February 2018
Maniac Episode 5, curated group exhibition, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven CT, September - October 2017
Antarctica Underwater: Video on ICC Building, OPEN SKY GALLERY ISEA2016 Hong Kong - peer reviewed / curated by Maurice Benayoun, May 2016
ACM Creativity and Cognition, Glasgow, Scotland UK (international peer reviewed group exhibition), 2015
Biennial Faculty exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, February 2015
Cotton Club Screen - Under the Viaduct, West Harlem Art Fund New York, NY - (group video screenings curated by Linda Griggs and Savona Bailey), July 2014
Group Exhibition: Waltz with the Earth: Art Kibbutz, Governor’s Island New York, NY, August 2014
Art Gallery, SIGGRAPH2013, peer reviewed group exhibition, Anaheim, CA, July 2013
Art in Science Exhibit, International Congress of Protistology, Vancouver, BC, July 2013
Into the Void, solo exhibition curated by Yona Verwer, Kraft Center for Jewish Life, Columbia/Barnard, New York, NY, February 2013
Biennial Faculty exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, February 2013
Presentations
Artist Guest Lecture, University of Wisconsin, September 2024
Science and Art: Part One, Techspressionism Roundtable #03, Artists Cynthia DiDonato, Karen LaFleur and Cynthia Beth Rubin, moderated by Michael Pierre Price.
Recorded June 12, 2024Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s, "Sensual Data" presentation with Andria Miller, Yale University, April, 2024
Artist Presentation, ISEA, Barcelona Spain, June 2022
Plankton Gestural Action Drawing, Science Talk Conference Artist Poster Session, March 24, 2022
Plankton Drawing Workshop for EXPORTS via Zoom, April 16, 2022
Within the Frame: Continuum of the Still Image
ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS lightening talk
December 3, 2021, 4PM EST/9PM GMTTechspressionist Salon #21, artist presentation, Cynthia Beth Rubin & Renata Janiszewska, February 2021
September Artist Talk, Coffee Break & Culture, New Haven JCC Hoos Gallery, July 06, 2021
Do Plankton Have Feelings?, Pecha Kucha New Haven, February 20, 2020
International Student Creativity Awards
Memoirs of the 1960s – 1970s American Art Scene
with Japanese subtitles, December 2020Co-Create with CIR Nadine Nelson
New Haven Free Public Library
Online plankton drawing workshop
November 18, 2020AR in Visual Art, Lighting Talk, Creative Tech Week Conference, New York, NY May 11 2018
Antarctica Underwater, Artist Talk ISEA2016 Hong Kong, (international peer reviewed conference) May 2016
Artist Presentation, LISA (Leaders in Software and Art), New York, NY May 2015
Hudson Muddy Waters: Artist Presentation and Poster, ISEA2014 Dubai UAE November-2014
Artist Talk, LAZER, Leonardo series on Art & Science New York NY July 2013
Traces: Plankton on the Move, Artist Talk: SIGGRAPH2013, Anaheim, CA, July 2013
Artist Talk with Into the Void (solo exhibition curated by Yona Verwer), Kraft Center for Jewish Life, Columbia/Barnard, New York NY February 2013