Ken Rinaldo (b.1958, Queens, NY)
Artist, researcher, curator, author. He is an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. He has been working at the intersection of art and biology for over two decades working in the categories of interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid prototyping and digital imaging. His works have been commissioned and displayed nationally and internationally at museums and galleries such as: The Biennale of Electronic Arts
(Perth), Transmediale
(Berlin), ARCO Festival
(Madrid), Ars Electronica
(Linz), The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
(Helsinki), The Chicago Art Institute; The Museum of Contemporary Art
(Chicago); V2 Dutch Arts Festival
(Rotterdam), The World Ocean Museum
(Russia), Siggraph
(Los Angeles), The Exploratorium
(San Francisco), etc. He has curated numerous exhibitions specializing in Art and Technology such as: Festival of forty-three artists working in video, performance, robotics, and installation
(San Francisco ATA Gallery, 1989), Algorithmic Mash/Machinations
(COSI Columbus 2003). He was the recipient of first prize for Vida 3.0 in 2000, an international competition on Art & Artificial life, an award of Distinction from Ars Electronica in 2004 for the work Augmented Fish Reality an honorable mention in 2001 at Ars Electronica Austria for Autopoiesis. Rinaldo has received numerous grants and awards including an Ohio Arts Council Grant and commissions from the European Capital of Culture in 2004 and AV Festival England in 2006. Rinaldo teaches interactive robotic sculpture, 3d modeling and rapid prototyping, motion graphics and Directs the Art and Technology program in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. Rinaldo is currently a visiting Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, Art Department
(Pittsburgh, PA).
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