Jon Rubin creates interventions into public life that reinvent social and political conditions and create new platforms for agency, participation, and exchange. His projects include starting a radio station in an abandoned steel town that only plays the sound of an extinct bird, developing a hypnotized human robot army, running a barter-based nomadic art school, operating a restaurant that produces a live talk show with its customers, and running another take-out restaurant that only sells food from countries the United States is in conflict with. He has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Mercosul Biennial, Brazil; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, New York; the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico; the Rooseum, Sweden; the ParkingGallery, Tehran, Iran; Nemo Film Festival, Paris; as well as in backyards, living rooms, and street corners.