Ken Rinaldo is an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. He has been working at the intersection of art and biology for over two decades working in the catagories of interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid prototyping and digital imaging.
His works have been commissioned and displayed nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and festivals such as: The Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth Australia, Exit Festival France, Transmediale Berlin, Germany, ARCO Arts Festival Madrid, Spain, The OK Center for Contemporary Art, ARS ELECTRONICA, Austria; The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; The Australian Center for Photograhy; The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago; The Home Show, Seoul, Korea; V2 Dutch Electronica Arts Festival, Rotterdam, Holland; Image Du Future, Montreal, Canada; Siggraph, Los Angeles; The Exploratorium, San Francisco.
He was the recipient of first prize for Vida 3.0 an international competition on Artificial life, an Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica in 2004 for the work Augmented Fish Reality, an Honorable Mention in 2001 at Ars Electronica Austria for Autopoiesis and has received numerous grants and awards including an Ohio Arts Council Grant, and 3 Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affaires grants.