The LITE staff invites you to a presentation by Cynthia Beth Rubin "Painterly Thoughts: Computers and Expressive Language" on Thursday, November 6 from 6:00—8:00pm. Presentation in theatre at 6:00pm, Meet and Greet in lobby at 7:00pm.
The LITE staff invites you to a presentation by Cynthia Beth Rubin "Painterly Thoughts: Computers and Expressive Language" on Thursday, November 6 from 6:00—8:00pm. Presentation in theatre at 6:00pm, Meet and Greet in lobby at 7:00pm.
Computer Art is commonly described as a mechanical art form, but for many artists it is a natural medium of expression, facilitating explorations of color, form, texture, and representational imagery. In short, the concepts that have stirred artists for hundreds of years and across a variety of cultural traditions continue to inspire artists working in New Media. As the technical possibilities of digital imaging continue to evolve, however, artists are challenged to create works that simultaneously draw on tradition and break barriers into new modes of presentation and expression.
Cynthia Beth Rubin will discuss her own evolution as digital artist, beginning with the early paint systems developed for artists working in the pre-Photoshop era. Trained as a painter, Rubin first exhibited computer images alongside large expressive paintings in a 1985 solo exhibition in New York's East Village.
By 1988 she packed up her paints, and since then has devoted herself to investigations of the painterly side of digital media. Her work spans digital prints, animation, virtual reality, and other forms of interactivity. Rubin's presentation will include an overview of influences on her work. She will also give an overview of her collaborative projects with other artists, musical composers, and computer scientists, and how the new media have moved artists out of the private studio.
Rubin's work has been exhibited and screened in such diverse venues as the Jewish Museum in Prague, the Pandamonium Festival at the ICA in London, the Lavall Gallery in Novosibirsk, Siberia, the State Museum of Fine Arts, Kyrgyzstan, and numerous editions of ISEA, ArCade and SIGGRAPH. Winner of the first award in New Media from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, she was recently awarded this grant for a third time. Other awards and residencies include the New England Foundation for the Arts, Videochroniques in Marseilles, CYPRES in Aix-en-Provence, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.
She works independently and in collaboration, and teaches part-time at the Rhode Island School of Design. She currently serves on the Digital Arts Committee of ACM SIGGRAPH.
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