CYNTHIA BETH RUBIN

Sculpteur

SELECTED RECENT / CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
2000	PABA Gallery, New Haven, CT Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Grant recipents, Hartford CT
1999	GAMUT, Colville Place Gallery, London UK SIGGRAPH Art Show, Los Angeles CA (selected for Traveling Show) Digital Traces, 55 Mercer Street, New York, NY Spiri(tu)ELLES II Martiques, France The Digital Muses, Wellesly College Jewette ArtsCenter, Wellesly MA
1998	Journées des Images Professionelles (JIP) Marseilles, France Spiri(tu)ELLES Ventrabren Art Contemporain, France Postmark International, Artspace, New Haven, CT
1997	ARCADE London, UK (toured toSiberia and Russia in 1998)
1996	International Symposium on Electronic Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1995	CODE Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY SIGGRAPH Art Show, Los Angeles CA Les Atriums/Galeries Arts Technologies, Montréal, Québec Virtual Galerij EKKO, Springtij Festival, The Netherlands Centro Cultural Cândido Mendes, Mostra Banco Nacional de Realidade Virtual,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Kalisher Computer Art Show, Tel Aviv, Israel Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper by Women Artists, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester NY Scrap Book/Book Art" Ramapo College, Mahwah N J
1994	Imagination 94, The Netherlands
1993	"But is it Art?" Northwest Society for Photographic Education, Pacific Lutheran U,Tacoma WA
1992	Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney, Australia Shirley Fiterman Gallery, New York, NY Imagina Digital Gallery, Monte Carlo, Monaco solo Galerie Arts Technologies Montréal, Quebec
1990	Second International Symposium on Electronic Art Groningen, The Netherlands solo Wave Gallery New Haven CT
1989	solo New York State University, College of Technology, Utica NY
1988	solo Galerie de Rue du Chapeau Rouge, Avignon, France
1987	solo Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University Providence RI
1985	solo Dalia Tawil Gallery, New York NY
SELECTED SCREENINGS
Inherited Memories : 1997 music by Bob Gluck
1998	DeCordoba Museum, Lincoln MA Convergence Film Festival,Providence RI New York State Conference on New Technology
1997	SIGGRAPH animation festival, Los Angeles CA
Les affinités recouvrées : 1994 co-produced with VIDEOCHRONIQUES, music by Atau Tanaka
1996	The Living Room Festival, Public Television, San Francisco CA Pandemonium Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK
1995	Boston Jewish Film Festival, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA Festival Art Vidéo, Casa Blanca, Morocco Florida Film Festival, Orlando FL Jewish Film Festival, Castro Theatre, Berkeley CA (opening night) Vue sur les Docs, Marseilles, France International Symposium on Electronic Art, Montréal, Québec Jewish Video Festival, Judas Magnes Museum, San Francisco CA (honorable mention) Art in General, New York City NY Second International New York Video Festival, Middle East Studies Association FilmFest, Washington, DC Candid Camera, Lodz, Poland SERMEISS - Southeast Regional Middle East Islamic Studies Seminar
1994	DEAF Seminar on computer animation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Les Rendez-Vous d'Imagina, Paris and Marseilles, France Instants de Vidéo, Manosque, France Cable Television Broadcast, Toulouse, France Musée d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
Remembering Home produced 1993, music by Stephen Farrington
1995	Festival Art Vidéo, Casa Blanca, Morocco
1994	Instants de Vidéo, Manosque, France Jewish Film Festival, Berkeley CA Kalisher Art Show, Tel Aviv, Israel
Gothic Tempest 1987, co-produced with David Smalley, music by Noel Zahler
1991	Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
1989	Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX
1988	Walters Art Gallery Studio, Baltimore MD International Computer Music Association, Cologne, West Germany Connecticut Public Television Broadcast
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester NY Channel XXI Public Television, Rochester NY A. T. & T., Corporate Art Collection, Somerset NJ Allegeny Arts Council, Cumberland MD Connecticut College: Department of Mathematics, Admissions Office (2 works), New London CT Connecticut Department of Public Works (through Arts in Public Spaces) Yale University Hillel Foundation
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2000	The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Individual Artist's Grant Williams College, Bronfman Artist Residency
1997	CYPRES, l'ecole d'art d'Aix-en-Provence, France invited artist for web workshop
1996	Duncan of Jordanstone, University of Dundee, Scotland Artist Residency
1994	Institut Méditerranéen de Recherche et de Création, Marseilles, France Artist Residency
1992	Centre Copie-Art, Montréal, Quebec, Artist Residency
1991	New England Foundation for the Arts, New Works Regional Initiative Artist's Grant Studio Graphique d'Apple France/Actes Sud, invited artist for workshop and competition University of Vermont, Research Advisory Council, Research Grant
1988	Art in Public Spaces program, State of Connecticut, Commission Connecticut Public Television, New Video Award (collaboration with David Smalley) Helai, The Israeli Center for the Arts, Ma'alot, Israel, Artist Residency
1987	The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Research Grant The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Individual Artist's Grant The John Anson Kittridge Educational Fund, Research Grant Fondation Michael Karolyi, Vence, France, Artist Residency
PUBLICATIONS, AUTHORED REVIEWS
1998	Bridges, cover image and assorted illustrations, Volume 7 Number 1
1996	"SIGGRAPH" FPS, Pawn Press, Montreal
1995	"Morphing Sensibility" Computer Graphics, ACM, New York City NY (August issue)
1994	"Faculty Guidelines in Computer Based Media in Fine Art and Design" Computer Graphics ACM,New York City NY vol 28, Nov.(with Annette Weintraub, Dave Poindexter)
1993	"JIP at Arles", Pixel Vision, #10: New York "Quoting and Appropriation. . ." (presented at TISEA) in Art & Cyberculture, Ross Harley, ed August issue of Media Information Australia: Sydney
1992	Art and Design Educational Slide Set, editor and contributor, ACM SIGGRAPH: New York, NY
1991	"SIGGRAPH Art Show, 1991" FINEART Forum, volume 5, number 16: Berkeley CA
1990	"SIGGRAPH Art Show", Pixel:le magazine des nouvelles images #9: Paris
1983-1986	Contributing Writer, (regional reviews) Art New England, Brighton, MA
1980	Nightsun, cover design and illustrations, Frostburg, MD
EDUCATION Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland MFA Painting 1977 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio BA Studio Art 1972
SELECTED REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, PUBLISHED IMAGES
1998	artist feature, television interview , France 3 Mediterranean Edition various illustrations, Anne Morgan Spalter, The Computer in the Visual Arts
1996	artist feature, television interview Rio de Janeiro Brazil "Across the Fence", produced by University of Vermont,Channel 3 March artist feature Computer Design, Seoul, Korea January
1995	"City Arts/CODE Exhibition ", Kathy Brewer WNET Channel 13 October "Artifice, Artifact. . .", Annette Weintraub Leonardo Vol 18 #5, USA Computer Graphics Gallery, NIKKEI Computer Graphics #10 Japan SIGGRAPH Video Review (Les affinités recouvrées) Cover Image, program guide for Vidéo Lux Associates, Marseilles, France "Spectaculaire....", Moniek Janssen Inter- Info Magazine(The Netherlands)
1994	Artist Feature,Teresa Wennberg The Perfect Match, Malmö, Sweden , Nov. 4, Vol 25, p. 29 artist interview, Nth Video Series, GRAM Université du Québec `a Montréal
1993	"Digital Art. . . ", Jean Marie Angelo Computer Pictures May/June
1992	"The Computer and Tradition", (artist feature)Confetti: Bits and Pieces, Summer "TISEA" Desktop Magazine (Australia), September Cover Image, New England Foundation for the Arts, New Works Regional Initiative
1991	"SISEA" Redazione Pixel, (Italy)
1990	"Traditional Modernists" Lelia Avrin Haddassah Magazine ,summer "Cynthia Beth Rubin: Paysages Bibliques" Jacques de Schryver Arts Graphiques, (France) "SISEA" P/Im, (The Netherlands), summer Illustration, Getting Started in Computer Graphics, Gary Olsen: Northern Light Books,
1989	"Cynthia Beth Rubin: La Bible de Provence" Jacques de Schryver Micro Systemes; (France)
1988	"La Modernite Picturale de Cynthia Beth Rubin" On Sort, Le Provençal, May 18
1987	"Cynthia Beth Rubin:Paintings and Computer Art" Jan Swearer, Art New England, June "Taking a Byte out of Reality" Bill van Siclen, The Providence Sunday Journal, April 19 "Winners' Works in Hartford" Bill Zimmer The New York Times CT Section, February 22
1985	artist feature John Carlin, Arts Magazine, October
SELECTED LECTURES, VISITING ARTIST PRESENTATIONS
2000	poster session, ISEA 2000, Paris, France
1999	Artist presentation, Faculteit Sociaal Agogische Opleidingen, Utrecht, the Netherlands "Digital by Choice: New Imagery in the Age of Technology" Quinnipac College, New Haven CT
1998	SIGGRAPH Boston, Artists Panel Artist presentation, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
1997	Artist presentation, Brown University Graphics Group, Providence, RI
1996	Panel Moderator, "Breaking the Code: Art that Does not Stand on It's Own" ISEA Rotterdam Artist presentation, University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone, United Kingdom Artist presentation, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Artist presentation, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Artist presentation, Middlesex University, United Kingdom panel co-chair: Running to Stay in Place: Developing Guidelines for Faculty in Computer- based Media in Art and Design, College Art Association Annual Meeting Boston MA
1995	artist presenter, panel: Artists Talk Code, Tish School of Art New York University, NY "Morphing Sensibility" SIGGRAPH Educator's Panel, Los Angeles CA Artist presentation, CYPRES, l'école d'art d'Aix-en-Provence, France
1994	"Output Sufferings: Escape from the Virtual", ISEA, Helsinki, Finland "Running to Stay in Place", panel co-chair, ISEA, Helsinki, Finland
1993	artist presenter, panel: Dimension X, Women's Caucus for Art Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA artist presenter, Works on Paper Discussion group, SIGGRAPH Annual Meetings, Anaheim CA "Wandering Home: An Artist's Search for Sources" Women's Studies Series, UVM
1992	"Quoting and Appropriation. . . " Third International Symposium on Electronic Art,Sydney "2D Art: Ruler of the Ambiguous Zone" TISEA ,Sydney Artist presentation, New South Wales College of Art and Design, Sydney, Australia "The Computer did That?Looking for the Artist in Computer Art"Fleming Museum, Burlington
1991	"New Conceptual Pathways..." Computing Across the Curriculum, U of Vermont, Burlington "New Medium, New Process, New Imagery" College Art Association , Washington D.C.
1990	"The Computer and Artistic Process" SISEA Groningen, The Netherlands
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1997- 01	Board member, ISEA (Inter-Society for Electronic Art) ; Chair of Cultural Diversity
1997	International Advisory Comittee, ISEA 98 Manchester, UK College Art Association Committee on Electronic Information
1996	International Advisory Comittee, ISEA 96, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1995	co-chair, Conference Committee (colloquim) ISEA 95 , Montréal Exhibition Committee for ISEA95, Montréal (includes jury for parts of exhibition) co-author, Guidelines for Faculty in the Electronic Arts (presented at ISEA 94; accepted as panel for CAA for 1996, published by SIGGRAPH, adopted by College Art Association)
1993	International Advisory Comittee, ISEA 93, Minneapolis
1991-92	Program Committee, Computing Across the Curriculum Conference 1991 & 1992, UVM
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Freelance artist/consultant Projects include: Exhibition development for the Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC, with Art(n)Lab, Chicago. Primary 2D artist in team of 2D/3D artists and technicians. Separated historic photographs for projection in simulated 3D space, generated textures for 3D models, collaborated on composition. Design and development of interactive pieces for CD rom, working with ZAP media, Providence. Cover Design and Layout, for Bridges Magazine Free-lance Workshops in New Media for the Interactive Factory, (Boston), nSight (Cambridge) and New England Foundation for the Arts. University level Teaching Rhode Island School of Design (part-time 1997-present), University of Vermont (1990-1997), Connecticut College (two-thirds position 1981-1990), Frostburg State (1978-1981). Courses taught and developed include: Computer Art, Computer Animation, Drawing, Color Theory, Painting, 2D Design, 3D Design, Web Animation, Faculty Workshps. Developed first computer courses at Connecticut College and University of Vermont. Museum Education ArtKit Designer/ Coordinator (1973 - 1975),Regional Center for Educational Training. Developed educational materials in Art and Anthropology for school outreach program of Dartmouth College based Montshire Museum; coordinated teacher training for rural schools without art programs. Previous experience at Pacific Science Center, Boston Children's Museum.
SELECTED RECENT PROJECTS:
Current:	Development of web-based artwork and computer animation, partially funded by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Imagery is derived from photographs of historical places, reflecting the hierarchy of imagined and real moments of memory. Focus is on Diaspora culture and other cultural memories.
Recent:	Painting/Collage prints incorporating several historical elements. Visiting artist at Research Division of Eastman Kodak Company to output imagery (March 2000). Creative work done as Bronfman Visiting artist at Williams College (January 2000). Exhibited at PABA Gallery March 2000. (New Haven, CT), GAMUT (Colville Place Gallery, London UK, SIGGRAPH Art Show (Los Angeles CA and selected for Traveling Show) Digital Traces (55 Mercer Street, New York, NY), Spiri(tu)ELLES II (Martiques, France) The Digital Muses (Wellesly College, Wellesly MA). Included in 1998 Journées des Images Professionelles (Marseilles, France), featured in television interview on France 3.
1998:	Exhibition development for the Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC, with Ellen Sandor of Art(n)Lab (Chicago) and Carolina Cruz-Neira (ICMENT Lab at Iowa State University). Primary 2D artist in team of 2D/3D artists and technicians. Separated historic photographs for projection in simulated 3D space, generated textures for 3D models, collaborated on composition. Worked with Photoshop images imported into SoftImage.
1998	Jonah's Memories: web-based artwork <http://CBRubin.net/art/public/water>. Begun at CYPRES, l'ecole d'art d'Aix-en-Provence (France) as invited artist for web workshop (1997). Exhibited at Spirit/u/elles (Ventrabren Art Contemporain, France). Included in Assemblage: The Women's Hypertext Gallery (Carolyn Guertin, curator, in association with trAce, Nottingham Trent University, UK)
1997:	Inherited Memories : Computer animation based on composite photographs of Eastern European Synagogues and other sites. Digital music by Bob Gluck. Begun while artist in residence at Duncan of Jordanstone, University of Dundee, Scotland, and completed at the Brown University Graphics lab. Screened at the DeCordoba Museum (Lincoln MA), Convergence Film Festival (Providence RI), New York State Conference on Arts in the Digital Age, and SIGGRAPH animation festival (Los Angeles CA), among others. In collection of DeCordoba Museum and included on SIGGRAPH Video Review.
1994:	les affinités recouvrées : Computer animation based on composite photographs of Morocco including Synagogues and other sites. Digital music by Atau Tanaka. Produced while artist in residence at Vidéochroniques (Marseilles, France). Screened at The Living Room Festival (Public Television, San Francisco CA) Pandemonium Festival (Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK) Boston Jewish Film Festival ( opening night, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA) Festival Art Vidéo (Casa Blanca, Morocco), Florida Film Festival (sponsored by Universal Studios, Orlando FL) Jewish Film Festival, Berkeley CA (opening night) Musée d'Art Contemporain (Grenoble, France)and other venues in France, Canada, USA, UK, and Poland. In collection of Vidéochroniques and included on SIGGRAPH Video Review.
1993:	Remembering Home: Computer animation based on composite photographs of Spain, including Synagogues and other sites. Digital music by Stephen Farrington. Partially funded by the New England Foundation for the Arts and the University of Vermont Research Council. Screened at Festival Art Vidéo (Casa Blanca, Morocco), Instants de Vidéo (Manosque, France) Jewish Video Festival (Judas Magnes Museum, Berkeley CA), Kalisher Art Show, (Tel Aviv, Israel)
1992:	Produced Series of still imagery based on experimentation with photocopy art combined with painting and digital imagery, partially supported by an artist in residence grant from Centre Copie-Art (Montréal, Quebec). Resulting work published and exhibited by Centre Copie-Art. Exhibited also as at Imagination 94 (The Netherlands), the Northwest Society for Photographic Education (Pacific Lutheran U,Tacoma WA), SIGGRAPH Art Show (Los Angeles CA) Virtual Galerij EKKO (Springtij Festival, The Netherlands).
1991:	Invited Artist for Adobe Photoshop workshop upon the release of Adobe Photoshop version 1. Workshop co-sponsored by Studio Graphique of Apple France (Paris) and Actes Sud (Arles). Resulting images exhibited a Mac Expo, Paris. Related work exhibited at Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, (Sydney, Australia), Shirley Fiterman Gallery (New York, NY) Imagina (Monte Carlo, Monaco), Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY). In collection of Memorial Art Gallery.
1988:	Avignon After Image: Morrill Hall Mural. Large Scale mural produced in porcelain baked enamel for Southern Connecticut State University commissioned by the Art in Public Spaces program, Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Possibly first large mural entirely designed by computer. Documented in research by Martin Rieser (Bristol, UK).