Ken Rinaldo
Borderless Bacteria / Colonialist Cash
2017
Culture microbes in agar media with nutrients at Cultivamos Cultura and grown for 2 weeks
@ Lisboa Cidade Aberta Exhibition
Borderless Bacteria / Colonialist Cash starts by collecting money at the Lisbon Airport, kept in agar and fed with proteins, evolving to a microbiome narrative. The bacteria, the funghi and the microbes don’t know borders, and cash becomes a vector of biological cultures traded globally.
BIO
Ken Rinaldo (EUA) is internationally recognized for his interactive installations blurring the boundaries between the organic and inorganic and speaking to the co-evolution between living and evolving technological cultures. His work interrogates fuzzy boundaries and posits that as new machinic & algorithmic species arise, that we need to better understand and direct the complex intertwined ecologies that a machinic semi-living species may create. Focused on trans-species communication Rinaldo seeks to empower and amplify animal, insect, bacterial and emergent machine intelligences. Rinaldo’s works have been commissioned/displayed in over 30 countries at museums and festivals earning him an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica Austria and first prize for Vida 3.0 for Autopoiesis.
