[Nettime-bold] PRESENTATIONS :: KEN RINALDO + AMY YOUNGS :: ART, TECH + ALife

[Alessio Cavallaro <alessio@acmi.net.au>]

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The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), 
in association with Monash University presents 

KEN RINALDO and AMY YOUNGS The Ohio State University, USA
Musings on Art, Technology and Artificial Life

6.30pm Wednesday 7 August 2002  
Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza 
1 Macarthur Street, East Melbourne, Australia 
free admission  

welcome / introduction 
Victoria Lynn 
Director, Creative Development, Australian Centre for the Moving Image 

Amy Youngs 
:: Hypernatural-Tech: an obsessive re-invention of the natural :: 

Youngs creates idealised, technologically-controlled versions of nature that
engage viewers in a visual, tactile and auditory realm.  She will show and
discuss artworks that investigate the paradox of technological invasion and
technological remediation of nature. 

 Ken Rinaldo 
:: Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny: musings on artificial life :: 

Living systems, through adaptive behaviour and evolution, naturally seek
symbiotic relationships with their environment, which is increasingly
technologically mediated.  Rinaldo will discuss and illustrate his
hypothesis that technological systems - such as artificial life and genetic
algorithms - learn and recapitulate the evolved wisdom of living systems,
and how the relationship between biology and technology is therefore
inevitably symbiotic. 

8.15pm 
close 

Amy M. Youngs creates mixed-media interactive sculptures and environments
which reveal her interest in the complex relationship between technology and
our changing concept of nature and self. Her works have been widely
exhibited internationally at art centres and galleries, including the
Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; the Visual Arts Museum, New York,
USA; and the Art Institute of Chicago's Betty Rymer Gallery, USA.  Her work
has been reviewed and edited in a diverse range of publications, including
Artweek, and she has published essays on genetic art (in Leonardo) and art,
technology and ecology (in Nouvel Objet).  She has taught at the Columbus
College of Art and Design (Ohio) and the Exploratorium (California), and has
been an Artist-in-Residence and visiting artist in numerous institutions,
including California State University and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. She was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the
Ohio Arts Council in 2002.  Youngs is currently an Assistant Professor and
the Director of the Foundations Program in the Department of Art at The Ohio
State University, Columbus Ohio, USA.  < www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/~ayoungs > 

Ken Rinaldo is a new media artist and theorist who creates interactive
installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic.
He believes it is imperative that technological systems acknowledge and
model the evolved wisdom of natural living systems, so they will inherently
fuse to permit an interdependent earth. For over two decades Rinaldo has
been working at the intersection of art and biology, including interactive
robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid
prototyping and digital imaging.  His works have been commissioned and
widely exhibited internationally at museums, galleries and events, including
Transmediale, Berlin; Ars Electronica, Austria; The Kiasma Museum, Finland;
The Australian Center for Photography, Sydney; Chicago Museum of
Contemporary Art, USA; and the Dutch Electronica Arts Festival, The
Netherlands. His work has been reviewed and edited in a diverse range of
publications and books, including ArtByte NY, Art Press Paris, Leonardo, and
Information Arts by Steve Wilson. He has curated exhibitions specialising in
Art and Technology, and has received several grants and awards, including
first prize for AVIDA 3.0, 2001, an international competition on Artificial
Life.  Rinaldo currently Directs and teaches robotics in the Art and
Technology program at The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, USA. <
www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/~rinaldo > 

Further information please contact Alessio Cavallaro, Producer / Curator, 
New Media Projects, ACMI, email alessio@acmi.net.au 

Acknowledgments The Australian Centre for the Moving Image gratefully
acknowledges Stelarc 
< www.stelarc.va.com.au >, Artist-in-Residence at the Faculty of Art and
Design, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, for organising the
presentations.  ACMI also thanks Jon McCormack and Alan Dorin, Centre for
Electronic Media Art (CEMA) < http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cema > and
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University; Troy
Innocent, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Caulfield Campus;
and BEAP 2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 
< www.beap.org >. Special thanks to the participating artists. 

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is dedicated to experiencing,
exploring and enjoying the moving image in all its forms. Opening at
Federation Square, Melbourne, in late 2002, the state-of-the-art complex
will house a screen gallery, two multi-format cinemas, education facilities,
screen lounges, and a dynamic range of related experiences. <
www.acmi.net.au >  


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Alessio Cavallaro 
Producer / Curator New Media Projects 
+ Acting Curatorial Manager 
tel  61 3 9651 1235 
fax  61 3 9651 1600 
mob  0402 044 336 
email  alessio@acmi.net.au 
3 Treasury Place East Melbourne VIC Australia 3002

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