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'''Michael Rubin''', a former Netflix and Adobe executive, is an educator, entrepreneur, and photographer.<ref>"Writing the Revolution", by Wallace Baine; published in Santa Cruz Sentinel, on 2005-10-16</ref>

== Education ==
Rubin graduated from Brown University with a degree in neuroscience in 1985. The story of his college application was syndicated,<ref>"Student Defies Convention and the Odds", by James H. Ludwin, UPI; published in Hartford Courant, on 1984-03-04</ref> and he was on the cover of USA Today on December 20, 1984.<ref>"Brown may be 'Hottest' Campus", by Erik Brady; published in USA Today, on 1984-12-20.</ref><ref name=GNVsun/>

== Career ==
From 1985 until 1994, he worked in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, Los Angeles, designing new editing equipment and editing feature films and television shows. He has a number of credited editorial roles in TV and film -- including Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1990-10-20 |title=Editing the Sheltering Sky, BBC2 broadcast, presented by Kate Leys|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhfuQp4vmcQ&t=2s/|access-date=2023-01-27 |website=BBC |language=en-US}}</ref> Rubin has taught video post-production internationally and has written books on editing for professionals and consumers.<ref name=GNVsun>{{Cite news |date=2009-01-28 |title=For Gainesville Native Michael Rubin, One Career Just Isn't Enough|url=https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2009/01/28/for-gainesville-native-michael-rubin-one-career-just-isnt-enough-photos-courtesy-of-michael-rubin/31595011007/ |website=The Gainesville Sun |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=DROIDguild>{{Cite news |date=2006-01-01 |title=Digital Dreamcatcher: ‘Droidmaker Chronicles the Early Years of Lucasfilm|url=https://cinemontage.org/la-strada-1954/ |website=Cinemontage - Editors Guild Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

He created AFI's first academic online course for Fathom, a joint venture including Columbia University and the AFI, "Introduction to Digital Video" in 2001<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-01-16 |title=AFI Preps Online DV Class |url=https://variety.com/2002/digital/news/afi-preps-online-dv-class-1117858666/|access-date=2023-01-27 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> From 1993-2008 he was CEO of Petroglyph Ceramic Lounge, pioneering the contemporary ceramics industry,<ref>"Somewhat Individual", by Juliette Rossant; published in Forbes, on 1996-03-11</ref> opening six studios in Northern California.<ref name=GNVsun/><ref>"Entrepreneur Award Finalist Michael Rubin", by Alastair Goldfisher; published in Silicon Valley Business Journal, on 1997-05-01</ref> From 2005-2017, he held senior product positions at tech companies and other startups.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Siegler |first=M. G. |date=2010-10-16 |title=TripTrace: A Place Book For Where You've Been And Where You're Going |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/16/triptrace/ |access-date=2023-01-27 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref> He was Director of Product at Netflix from 2006-2008 and Senior Innovator at Adobe from 2013-2017 where he was awarded a patent on digital audio interfaces in 2017 <ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-14 |title=HYBRID AUDIO REPRESENTATIONS FOR EDITING AUDIO CONTENT |url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/20170169840 |access-date=2023-01-27 |website=Justia Patents |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=GNVsun/>. He founded Neomodern in 2017, a bricks-and-mortar photographic printing + framing business in San Francisco,<ref name=NEOsfchron>{{Cite news |date=2017-09-18 |title=New Concept Gets Out of the Phone and Onto the Wall|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/art/article/New-concept-gets-image-out-of-the-phone-and-onto-12206556.php/ |work=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en-US}}</ref> which closed in 2020. He currently is a fine art photographer, and teaches photography workshops<ref name=71m>{{Cite web |date=2021-01-30 |title=Visual Voice, by Mike Brannon p.138-151|url=https://www.flipsnack.com/F6959F6D75E/71-magazine-january-february-2021.html|access-date=2023-01-27 |website=71 Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>, notably with the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.

== Publications ==
Rubin wrote, ''Defending the Galaxy'' in 1982, the first comprehensive book and satire on video games.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Guins |first=Raiford |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Game_After/ijOkAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Defending+the+Galaxy%22+%22Michael+Rubin%22&pg=PA82&printsec=frontcover |title=Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-262-32017-7 |location=MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts |pages=82–83 |oclc=869281813}}</ref> for which he was given a Twin Galaxies Videogame trading card #1603 in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Walter Day Collection - 1603 Michael Rubin |url=https://thewalterdaycollection.com/collection/gallery/item/1603-michael-rubin |access-date=2023-01-27 |website=The Walter Day Collection |language=en-gb}}</ref> In 1984, he wrote and published the humorous ''Computer Gardening Made Simple'' under the pen name Chip DeJardin. In 1990, he wrote the first edition of ''Nonlinear'', which popularized the term “nonlinear editing”<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rombes|first=Nicholas |title="Cinema in the Digital Age" |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cinema_in_the_Digital_Age/TMw_DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=rubin|date=2009 |location=Columbia University Press, New York|chapter=Chapter 25|isbn=978-0-231-85118-3 |language=en-US}}</ref> and was used in film schools and in Hollywood, and released three additional editions until 2001. He wrote ''The Little Digital Video Book'' for amateur videographers in 2001; the book's second edition came out in 2008.<ref name=GNVsun/> He also wrote three editions of ''iLife'' books for the Apple Training Series. In 2005 he authored ''Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution''.<ref>"Writing the Revolution", by Wallace Baine; published in Santa Cruz Sentinel, on 2005-10-16</ref><ref name=DROIDguild/>

== Photography ==
Rubin is the director of The Rubin Collection, a large family collection of 20th-century photography, frequently on display at Neomodern in San Francisco (2017-2020) and now in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<ref name=NEOsfchron/> As a high school student, Rubin was taught by Jerry N. Uelsmann in the darkroom and photographic effects in Gainesville, Florida <ref name=71m/><ref name=GNVsun/>.

== Personal Life ==
Rubin married his Petroglyph co-founder Jennifer (Kurtz) Rubin in 1994 (divorced in 2013) with whom he shares two children. His siblings are artist Gabrielle Rubin-Israelievitch and screenwriter Danny Rubin <ref name=GNVsun/>.

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