Ken Rinaldo Lecture

Interactive artist Ken Rinaldo will present a lecture on Monday, February 3, 2020 at the McDonough Museum of Art at 5:10 PM. The lecture is presented by Youngstown State University’s Department of Art and is free and open to the public.

Rinaldo is internationally recognized for interactive art installations that develop hybrid ecologies with human, plant, and animal. These serve as model and experiment for thinking about complex social, biological and machine symbionts that are arising. Exploring critical interface designs allows interrogation of technology as an emergent form with evolutionary survival instincts and self-aware software agents.

Rinaldo is a contemporary artist and professor teaching interactive robotics, bio art, 2D/3D animation, 3D modeling and rapid prototyping and broad art practices to meet conceptual frameworks & technology within the College of Arts & Sciences, The Ohio State University.

Rinaldo’s works have been commissioned by museums, festivals and galleries including ALIFE; Mexico, Centro National Arts Mexico, Nuit Blanche, Canada, Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Kiasma Museum; Finland, World Ocean Museum; Russia, Ars Electronica; Austria, National Center for Contemporary Art; Russia, 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; New Zealand, Pan Palazzo Delle Arti; Italy, V2 DEAF; Holland, Siggraph; Los Angeles, Exploratorium; San Francisco, Itau Cultural Museum.