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Thermogen

Ken Rinaldo

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Digital Print
Digital Photo Paper
Image Size: 55x41 cm
Total Size: 59,5x42 cm
Date: 2006
15 units
Ref.: ED005

"Machinic Diatoms: 3 irrealities imagines the day when designer molecular constructors will permit unicellular machines, nano machines to co-inhabit and maintain the body. They may enter through our membranes and our pores and be both invited and uninvited guests, which find residence in our cells among the healthful organelles that, are part of the human cellular maintenance and survival ecosystem. Our bodies are already constructed, multicellular bio electrochemical agents with layers of communicating, competing systems both with and without our own DNA. The healthful bacteria that allow digestion of food and bacteria that hold at bay, harmful bacteria are part of complex intertwined ecologies that maintain and struggle to inhabit the interior and exterior of our bodies. The images of the constructed micro machines appear to be neither human nor biological but are rather speculative forms which envision engineered micro bio and machinic agents with properties to help maintain our natural cellular systems."

A VIRTUAL NATURE

The American Ken Rinaldo, creator of interactive multimedia installations that tend to blur the boundaries between the organic and the inorganic, moves in the field of technology. There is an area of intersection between art and biology. over three decades, namely in interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, inter-species communication and digital imaging.
In this work he gives us back the image of a manipulated nature that seems to blossom into new shapes and colors of a virtual universe of exquisite and rare beauty.

Maria João Fernandes

AICA - International Association of Art Critics

Ken Rinaldo

Ken Rinaldo is internationally recognized for his interactive installations blurring the boundaries between the organic and inorganic and speaking to the co-evolution between living and evolving technological cultures. His work interrogates fuzzy boundaries where hybrids arise. Biological, machine and algorithmic species and their unique intelligences are mixing in unexpected ways and we need to better understand the complex intertwined ecologies that these semi-living species create. Rinaldo is focused on trans-species communication and researching methods to understand animal, insect and bacterial cultures as models for emergent machine intelligences, as they interact, self organize and co-inhabit the earth.

Rinaldo’s works have shown and commissioned by museums, festivals and galleries internationally such as: Nuit Blanche Canada, World Ocean Museum Russia, Ars Electronica Austria, Lille International Arts Festival France, la Maison d’Ailleurs, Switzerland, Vancouver Olympics Canada, Platform 21 Holland, Transmediale Berlin, AV Festival England, Caldas Museum of Art Colombia, Arco Arts Festival Spain, Te Papa Museum, Wellington New Zealand, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Seville Spain, Kiasma Museum Finland, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Pan Palazzo Delle Arti Italy, V2 DEAF Holland, Siggraph Los Angeles, Exploratorium San Francisco, Itau Museum Brazil, Biennial for Electronic Art Australia and the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Russia.

Rinaldo was recipient of an Award of Distinction in 2004 at Ars Electronica Austria for Augmented Fish Reality and first prize for Vida 3.0 Madrid for his work Autopoiesis, which also won an honorable mention in Ars Electronica in 2001. Augmented Fish Reality is a trans-species artwork in which Siamese fighting fish are able to move their tanks under their control.

In 2008 Rinaldo and Youngs were awarded a Green Leaf Award from The United Nations Environment Fund, for the Farm Fountain, an aquaponics project in which fish and bacteria feed plants, which humans then consume. He is the recipient of three Battelle Endowment grants as well as a cultural Olympian for the Vancouver Olympics in 2009, where they commissioned three Paparazzi Robots.

Rinaldo is a member of the Senior Academic Board for Antennae Magazine and author of Interactive Electronics for Artists and Inventors and his work has been featured on radio and TV internationally including: BBC, ORF, CNN,CNET, CBC & the Discovery Channel. Select publications include: Art and Electronic Media by Edward Shanken, Evolution Haute Couture Art and Science in the Post Biological Age edited by Dmitry Bulatov, Art and Science Steve Wilson, Inside Art E Sciencia edited by Leonel Moura, Politics of the Impure V2 Publishing, Digital Art by Christiane Paul, Information Arts by Steve Wilson, Contemporary Italy, NY Arts Magazine, NY Times, Art Press Paris, Tema Celeste Italy and Wired Magazine.

Rinaldo is a contemporary artist and professor teaching robotics, bio art, animation, 3D modeling and broad art practices & technology within the College of Arts & Sciences, The Ohio State University.