Kenneth E. Rinaldo (born 1958) is an American

neo-conceptual Neo-conceptual art describes art practices in the 1980s and particularly 1990s to date that derive from the conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. These subsequent initiatives have included the Moscow Conceptualists, United States neo-c ...

artist and arts educator, known for his interactive robotics, 3D animation, and

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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 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 The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the ...

; 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,

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and Paul DeMarinis. 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 th ...

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

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.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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