From 1970-2006, Jon Rubin was a media artist, and was the creator of the Floating Cinema. His work was presented at the Whitney and Guggenheim museums and floating down the canals of Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Jon Rubin was founder and director of the State University of New York’s COIL Center from 2006-2017. In 2021, he launched COIL Connect for Virtual Exchange, a workspace for institutions committed to COIL Virtual Exchange (https://coilconnect.org) which presently has 260 institutional members from 36 countries, and 1600 individual members. He co-edited the Guide to COIL Virtual Exchange which was published by Stylus in October 2022.