Ruth Ron

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updated: 01/08
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Installations click on images
   
ScreenWall at 'Liquid spaces' exhibition- the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2004
[with Inbar Barak] >publication>1< >2< >Museum's site<
Interactive installation using network cameras live feed
WallFold New York, 2003 >at UbiComp conference, Seattle, 10/2003<
Dynamic architectural element, using motors and microcontrollers

Screen++ New York, 2002 [with Inbar Barak]
Interactive
installation, using sensor and live video feed

SmoothWall New York, 2002
Interactive 3D installation, using sensor and live video feed
FluxSpace Ross Gallery, New York 1999
Interactive 3D Virtual/Real environment
Windows 2002 [with Inbar Barak]
Interactive video installation, using sensor and live video feed
   
Work In Progress
 
Digital Phoenix- Interactive Tactile Interface [with Dan Collins, Dianne Hansford, Yoshi Kobiyashi, John McIntosh, Karen Bullis, Al Simmon]
presented at SIGGRAPH, Boston, August 2006

Interactive Tactile Topographic Interface [with Dan Collins and Dianne Handsford]
Arizona State University, 2005

'Visible City' [with Dan Collins and Dianne Hansford] Using Augmented Reality, Mobile Computing, and 3D Simulated X Ray Models to Visualize and Navigate Downtown San Jose Proposal for ISEA conference in San Jose, 2006

Tagging the city [with Karen Bullis] A web- based urban community site proposal
Interactive Installation Proposal A projected virtual room is deforming according to the viewer's body position.
Interactive Video Installation using touch screens
   
Online Work
   
Volume 2002 >second prize< La Villette Net-Art competition [with Inbar Barak]
Audio game, programmed in ActionScript-Flash >publication>1< >2<>site<
Skyylophone 2003 >'runner-up' winning entry< [with Inbar Barak]
Flash animation for Skyy-Blue competition, with sound >link to site<
Shape_it 2002
Computer game, programmed in Lingo-Director
FieldCondition 2002
Interactive interface, programmed in
ActionScript-Flash
SmallTalk 2001
Interactive interface, using lingo-Director
3D Navigation Space 2000
Navigation in virtual space using Maya, QTVR
 
Work Experience
University of Florida 2007 - present
Assistant Professor - digital position, School of Architecture
link to students work- Reece Skelton touch-screen interactive space, Fall 2007
 
   
University of Florida 2006 - 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
 
   
Arizona State University 2005 - 2006
Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Design
 
   
Arizona State University 2004 - 2005
Visual Designer for PRISM lab and Decision Theater
 
   
Apartment Design and Renovation Tel Aviv, Israel, 2004
Independent project, design and construction drawings
 

Eyebeam Atelier NY, USA 2003
Assistant for the After School Education Artists-in-Residence program

 
LOT-EK Architecture: Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano, NY, USA 2001-2003
>> Project Architect - design competition for a 'Telematic Table' - inetractive table interface for the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
>> Project Architect - design of a bus stop for ESPN, including 3D modeling and an interactive flash presentation
>> Project architect for 'Art Basel' video lounge at Miami Beach 2002
 
>> Developed a proposal for 'New World Trade Center' exhibition, presented as a digital animation on DVD [presented at Venice Biennial 2002]
>> Team architect for the design and 3D modeling of several domestic and International competitions and projects.
 
Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid & Lise Anne Couture, NY, USA
2000-2001
>> Project architect on creation of virtual TV studio for broadcasting from 3D model of the NY Stock Exchange. The set design included scale, color, texture, information and interaction with human reporter/guest
>> Team architect on 'Guggenheim Virtual Museum' creating 3D exhibition space for traditional and digital art, part of a web-based 3D virtual museum. Creating 3D models and animation using 'Maya'.
 
A.Gottesman Architecture, Rishpon, Israel
>> Team architect for a residential house, design and working drawings.
>> Team architect for Kabri Museum of Contemporary Israeli Art.
>> Served as chief modelist for firm
1997-1998
 
Shamai Assif, Architecture and Urban Designers, Ramat-Gan, Israel
>> Developed general plan for government office complex in Tel-Aviv
>> Assisted developing a master plan for the city of Ramat-Gan, Israel
1996-1997
 
Education
   

Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design
Columbia University- New York - Post Professional Degree in Architectural Design

2000
>> Participated in paper-less studios: theoretical and conceptual design of virtual spaces and computer-generated dynamic design process.
>> Focus on 3D and interactive design software.
 
MPS in Interactive Telecommunications
New York University - Professional Degree in Interactive New Media
2003
>> Focusing on Physical Computing using sensors and chips to encourage human interaction with the computer.
>> Experience with programing in Director and Flash ,editing of Digital Video and Web 3D software
 
Bachelor in Architecture
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
>> 1997 - Professional work exchange program in Belfast; design of housing projects in Northern Ireland.
>> 1995 - Served in an affiliation task force, as a delegate of the Technion to the Bauhaus Institute in Dassau, Germany.
>> Final project - a model for an ecologically sustainable neighborhood in Jaffa.
1998
 
Lectures and Reviews
   
>> Coming soon - ACSA Annual Meeting conference, Huston,TX, March 2008 - Paper presentation
2008
>> Architecture- Students Final Reviews
Georgia Tech - school of architecture
2007

>> ACSA 'City/Campus' conference, Canada, October 2007
Paper presentation - 'The Phoenix Tactile Interface System'

2007
>> 'HYPERPOLIS really useful media' conference - Polytechnic University, NY
Paper presentation - 'The Architecture of Information'
2006
>> SIGGRAPH (computer graphics) conference, Boston Presentation of 'Tactile Urban Interface', Guerilla Studio
2006

>> 'the upgrade', Lecture about recent work,
'Minshar' school of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2006
>> Architecture- Students Final Reviews, 4th year
Technion, Israel institute of technology, Israel
2006
>> Architecture- Students Final Reviews, 4th year
Bezalel, school of architecture, Israel
2006
>> Architecture- Students Final Reviews
M. Arch Arizona State University
2006

>> Arizona State University - School of Design
Guest seminar – Interactive Media and Web- Art

2004
>> Bezalel Academy of Art, Israel- presentation to the student body following the exhibition 'Liquid Spaces'.
2003
>> Parsons School of Design - Architecture Department
Guest seminar - 'American Suburbia' in contemporary art and architectural theory
2002
>> Columbia University- Teaching Assistant
2000
>> Technion - Teaching assistant for a summer design studio in New York, Professor Raphael Segal
2000
>> National Science Museum- Israel
served as a guide for school students in scientific exhibition
1995-1996
 
Writings

 

>> 'The Phoenix Tactile Interface System'
Will be presented at the ACSA 'Campus/City' conference, Canada, October 2007

2007

>> 'The Architecture of Information'
4 case studies: Architecture as an interface for local information
Presented at 'Hyperpolis' conference, NY, October 2006

2006
>> 'Wall_Fold- The space between 0 & 1'
UbiComp conference Proceedings, Seattle, Washington
2003
>> Reaction of the Architecture scene for 9/11 events in New York
STUDIO Art and Architecture Magazine, Israel
2002

>> Architecture in constant flux: an interview with Hani Rashid
STUDIO Art and Architecture Magazine, Israel

2000
Press
>> ARCHISTORM magazin, Paris, France
article: "archi exp : l’archi-navigation de ruth ron"
April 2007
>> Ynet.com - Yediot Aharonot, Israel
article: "çîùú äîåôìàéí"
2003
>> http://www.ilmuseums.com/
article: "Liquid Spaces: Digital Works by Five Israelis"
2003
>> Paris, France
article:
"Tranches de Net-art a La Villette"
2002
>> http://www.wired.com/
article: "Digital Art With Je Ne Sais Quoi"
2002