Return to Public Art Collection
Title
Bubhub
Artist
Dan Mirer
Year
2026
Medium
MP4
Dimensions
5,440 × 1,260 px
Description of Artwork
Bubhub is composed of a variety of micro-fluidic systems. Watching these bubbles can be simultaneously beautiful and metaphorical. Their satisfying and calming motion conjures associations with traffic and queuing. Groups of bubbles create orderly arrangements and as they travel down channels and neatly organize to fill spaces. As travelers in the airport wait in lines and congregate in spaces, they may identify with and take comfort from the bubbles, seeing them as a metaphor for the human condition.
About the Artist
Dan Mirer began his education in glass at age 16, attending the Rochester Institute of Technology (AAS). He continued to study at Alfred University (BFA), the Pukeberg School of Design, Sweden, and the Tyler School of Art and Architecture (MFA).
Based in Corning, NY, Dan has been an independent artist and designer since 2004. He creates a range of work including tableware, sculpture, and video.
Dan has been involved with the Corning Museum of Glass; in its Hot Glass programs as well as The Studio’s Artist in Residence program. He has taught at Alfred University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Corning Museum of Glass.featured in American Craft, the Shanghai Museum of Art Magazine, PBS Discovery Channel Canada, and Half Cut Tea. She received the Otto Aldrich Prize (2013) an Aldo Bellini Award (2015), the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence (2018), a Toyama Glass Biennial Silver Prize (2021) and was a Museum of Art and Design Burk Prize finalist.
