Jon Rubin

Jon Rubin is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work attempts to reinvent the social dynamics of public spaces and group behavior. His projects include creating a game show for ideas, opening a fake store in an indoor shopping mall, starting a restaurant that secretly runs via take-out from its double across the street, operating a radio station that only plays the sound of an extinct bird, developing a hypnotized human “robot” army, running a free nomadic art school, and most recently, directing The Waffle Shop—a live interactive talk show that operates out of the Werber Building in East Liberty.

He has exhibited video, drawings, installations and public projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo (Mexico), the Rooseum (Sweden)Sweden, and the Nemo Film Festival (Paris). He is currently an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.