A Ticking Sound
March 9, 2006- May 26, 2006
601 W 26th St
Culling ideas from avant-garde music, modernist literature, video and internet art, Ben Rubin's pioneering work in
A Ticking Sound finds the artist repurposing 20th-century themes for 21st-century art.
At its core, Rubin's mix of LED displays and computer programming explores issues of communication. Rubin says the works in the exhibition are largely inspired by a passage in Thomas Pynchon's
The Crying of Lot 49, in which the protagonist perceives "the intent to communicate" in the design of a computer chip. By providing conduits for communication, Rubin creates a dialog between artwork and viewer that questons the nature of how people understand one another. [...]
- Greg Zinman
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show| Location | map | | Address | 601 W 26th St, #1240 New York (Chelsea) NY, 10001 United States | | Phone | 212-243-8830 | | Fax | 212-243-8620 | | Hours | Tue-Sat 11-6 | | | |
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