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.Stocker, G., Schöpf, C. (2004). International Compendium: Prix Ars Electronica 2004 : CyberArts 2004. Austria: Hatje Cantz.

Biography

Rinaldo was born in

Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

and raised in

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. He attended

Ward Melville High School Ward Melville High School is a public high school in the Three Village Central School District of Suffolk County, New York on Long Island, serving grades ten through twelve. It is fed by the two junior high schools in the district: Paul J. ...

East Setauket, New York East Setauket is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) on Long Island, in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. Before that it was part of the Setauket-East S ...

. He moved to California and earned an Associate of Science degree in Computer Science from

Cañada College Cañada College is a public community college in Redwood City, California. It is located on in the western part of Redwood City. It is one of the smallest community colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area. History In 1957, the San Mateo Jun ...

, 1982. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from The

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

; 1984 and a Master of Fine Arts in Conceptual Information Arts from

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different b ...

, 1996. At San Francisco State he studied with artists Steve Wilson, Brian Rogers, George LeGrady and

Paul DeMarinis Paul DeMarinis (1948) is an American visual and sound artist, specializing in electronic music composer, sound, performance, and computer-based artist. Since the 1970s he has been active in creating digital sound sculptures, one of the early inn ...

Ken Rinaldo and Amy Young's Farm Fountain

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 Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979. It is based at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which houses the Museum of the Future, in the ...

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 The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

.Leonardo, Volume 31, number 5, 1998 Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny Artificial Life Art by Kenneth Rinaldo pgs 371-376

References

* Aloi, Giovanni. (2012)
Art and Animals
'' London: Tauris. p. 108. * ''BEAP: Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth.'' (2002). Australia: John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology. * Brouwer, Joke. (2010)
The Politics of the Impure
'' Rotterdam: NAI. p. 47. * Jones, Amelia. (2006)
A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945
'' Malden (MA): Blackwell Publishing. p. 575. * Jones, Noa. (2007) ''Art in Action: nature, creativity and our collective future.'' San Rafael: Earth Aware Editions. * Ohlenschläger, Karin. (2012) ''Vida 1999-2012: arte y vida artificial = art and artificial life.'' Madrid: Fundación Telefónica. * Parikka, Jussi. (2010)
Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology
'' Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 134. * Poissant, Louise, and Daubner, Ernestine. (2005) ''Art et biotechnologies.'' Sainte-Foy (Québec): Presses de l'Université du Québec. * Preziosi, Donald. (2007)
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
'' Oxford .a. Oxford Univ. Press. * Reichle, Ingeborg. (2009). ''Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art''. Wien: Springer. *
Robots and Art: Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis
'' (2016). Singapore: Springer Singapore. * Scarinzi, Alfonsina. (2016) ''Aesthetics and the embodied mind: beyond art theory and the cartesian mind-body dichotomy.'' Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. * Seevinck, J. (2017).
Emergence in Interactive Art
'' Germany: Springer International Publishing. p. 54. * Shanken, Edward A. (2014). ''Art and Electronic Media.'' London: Phaidon Press Limited. * *Whitelaw, Mitchell. (2004) ''Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life.'' Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. * Shanken, Edward A. (2015). ''Systems.'' London: Whitechapel Gallery. * Whitelaw, M. (2004).
Metacreation: art and artificial life
'' Cambridge: MIT Press. * Wilson, Stephen. (2003)
Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology.
' Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT press. p. 113.

External links

Artists Web Site

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