Ken Rinaldo
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Ken Rinaldo |
| birth_name | Kenneth E. Rinaldo |
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| birth_place | Queens, New York |
| death_date | |
| nationality | American |
| alma_mater | San Francisco State University, |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| known_for | Interactive art installations using technology |
| website | |
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| name = Ken Rinaldo | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Kenneth E. Rinaldo | birth_date = | birth_place = Queens, New York | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = American | alma_mater = San Francisco State University, University of California, Santa Barbara | known_for = Interactive art installations using technology | website = Kenneth E. Rinaldo (born 1958) is an American neo-conceptual artist and arts educator, known for his interactive robotics, 3D animation, and BioArt installations. His works include Autopoiesis (2000), and Augmented Fish Reality (2004), a fish-driven robot.
Biography
Rinaldo was born in Queens and raised in Long Island. He attended Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, New York. He moved to California and earned an Associate of Science degree in Computer Science from Cañada College, 1982. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in communications from The University of California, Santa Barbara; 1984 and a Master of Fine Arts in Conceptual Information Arts from San Francisco State University, 1996. At San Francisco State he studied with artists Steve Wilson, Brian Rogers, George LeGrady and Paul DeMarinis.
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Ken_Rinaldo_and_Amy_Young's_Farm_Fountain.jpg" caption="'Farm Fountain' living sculpture, a collaboration with Amy Youngs." alt="'Farm Fountain; living sculpture, an example of Ken Rinaldo's bio-art collaboration with Amy Youngs"] ::
In 2000 he received the first prize at the VIDA 3.0 International Artificial Life Competition for Autopoiesis; in 2001 the same piece received an honorable mention at the Ars Electronica Festival. In 2004 Rinaldo's Augmented Fish Reality, a fish-driven robot, won an award of distinction at the same festival. In 2020 he was selected for the 2020 edition of The New Art Fest, an annual art and technology festival in Lisbon.
Rinaldo directs the Art and Technology Program in the Department of Art at Ohio State University.
References
References
- Net, Media Art. (2018-02-06). "Rinaldo, Ken: Biography".
- Gündüz, Mert. (2010). "Ken Rinaldo, Boğaziçi - Interview Project".
- Artificial Life 7 Workshop Proceedings, Carlo C. Maley and Eilis Boudreau Editors, Autopoiesis by Kenneth E. Rinaldo pgs, 166-169
- Information Arts, Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology Stephen Wilson pgs 113-114, 341-342, 344, 427
- Digital Art by Christiane Paul {{ISBN. 978-0-500-20367-5. pg 144, 145
- Stocker, G., Schöpf, C. (2004). International Compendium: Prix Ars Electronica 2004 : CyberArts 2004. Austria: Hatje Cantz.
- (2006-08-02). "Interview of Ken Rinaldo". We Make Money Not Art.
- "VIDA 15th Anniversary Celebration".
- (2001). "Cyberarts 2001: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica". Springer Vienna.
- (2000). "Outoäly - Alien intelligence". Kiasma Nykytaiteen museo-Museum of Contemporary Art.
- [https://thenewartfest.com/tnaf2020/maker-art/scater-surge/ Ken Rinaldo at the website of The New Art Fest Lisbon]
- Leonardo, Volume 31, number 5, 1998 Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny Artificial Life Art by Kenneth Rinaldo pgs 371-376
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