| A Ticking SoundMarch 9, 2006- May 26, 2006
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
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