Brooklyn-based media artist Ben Rubin transforms data into expressive forms ranging from sculptural installations to theatrical performances. Rubin’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney, MoMA, the Victoria and Albert. and other museums and performance venues around the world. His public art installations for The New York Times Building, the Public Theater, the University of Texas have garnered numerous awards. Ben has also served as a designer for clients including IBM, HP, the United Nations, the Smithsonian, and for The Harvard Business Review, Scientific American. He has taught in the Bard College MFA program, Parsons, NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and the Yale School of Art, where he was appointed critic in graphic design in 2004. where he is a visiting artist  Rubin holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Semiotics from Brown University (1987) and a Masters of Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab (1989). 

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Ben Rubin founded EAR Studio in 1998. The studio serves as the production facility for Rubin's art practice, and it also offers a range of design, production, software development, and engineering services to artists, institutions, and corporate clients.

In late 2026, EAR Studio will launch Decarta, a software tool for working with archival documents.