Ken Rinaldo is an internationally recognized artist for active art installations involving hybrid ecologies with animals, plants, bacterial culture, algorithms, and robotics. Rinaldo was a recipient of a Green Leaf Award from the United Nations (2008) and was a cultural Olympian for the Vancouver Olympics (2009). Rinaldo will discuss a survey of his artworks through the evolving concept of lenses. In an era where data-based algorithmic ways of knowing and biological procedures such as CRISPR gene editing and the Alpha Fold Protein Databases are becoming predominant, this talk will provide models for how technological systems can use lessons from nature to be more sensitive to all living species and amplify their inherent beauty.
This talk will be followed by a workshop—Creating Microbial Self-Portraits—at 8 pm with limited seating. Registration required. Please email Claire.Nettleton@pomona.edu for more information.