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http://www.cynthiabethrubin.com/
Cynthia Beth Rubin lives in New Haven. Transitioning from paint in the 1980s, she is an early adaptor of digital imaging, often combining augmented reality and interactive experience in her work. Her work takes the form of prints, videos, interactive works, and other new media.
Since the pandemic, Rubin has been experimenting with combining plankton with Hebrew Manuscripts. Her most recent work is part of an online exhibition: ROUNDNESS: artists respond to COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/63697012/roundness-arta-project-artists-respond-to-covid-19-pandemic
Another work is featured in an article by Catherine Mason: Digital and networked art in lockdown: how can we be creative in new ways?
A three time recipient of grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, she has also been award grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and numerous artist residency grants in France, Israel, Canada, and the USA.
Les affinités recouvrées, her 1994 video, was featured Opening Night of both the Boston and San Francisco Jewish Film Festivals, as well being screened at the ICA in London, and throughout the world. Layered Histories, an inter-active immersive collaboration with the composer Bob Gluck, was exhibited at the Jewish Museum in Prague, the Deleon White Gallery in Toronto, and many international festivals. Working with the artist Yona Verwer, together they produced a series based on the Stanton Street Shul in New York City, portions of which were exhibited at the Jerusalem Biennale, and multiple other venues.
Recent prints and videos, produced in collaboration with the Menden-Deuer Oceanography lab at the University of Rhode Island, explore the question of how we bring empathy, awareness, and curiosity to the unseen or rarely seen life of the ocean and of microscopic life. Her work has been widely published, shown on the ICC tower façade in Hong Kong and on the Cotton Club screen in Harlem.
She is past chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, of the SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery, a former board member of ISEA, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Jewish Art Salon.
Ciliates in the Circular Void
Digital Mixed Media
Archival Print 31” x 31” / 79 cm x 79 cm
June, 2020
We speak of the circle of life in human terms; our own life cycle, our own social relationships, or our own spiritual path. But when we gaze into the depths of a bottomless ocean, we find that the circle is infinitely deep, filled with microscopic life as significant as our own, and filled with spirituality that extends from the beginning of time and across peoples and places.
Sources:
Manuscript source: Leningrad Codex, produced in Cairo, 1008 C.E.
scribe/artist: Samuel son of Jacob
Plankton:
Digital Scan by Menden-Deuer lab, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Drawing of Plankton:
Cynthia Beth Rubin