KEN RINALDO
While biological systems have served as mimetic maps from which to study, emulate and create artificial life artworks, biological intelligences have never existed in individuals alone. In biological systems there is a complex symbiotic coupling between all levels of living beings (micro and macro) as well as a structural coupling with matter, energy and information that exists in an ecosystem. Consequently, approaches to artificial life art installation, should be expanded to incorporate and consider complex environmental and behavioral entities (humans), which may contribute to emergent properties exhibited in these systems.
Natural living systems are competitive, communicative, and symbiotically intertwined, and yet we have few examples of functioning machine installations designed to exhibit bio-machinic symbiosis. Ken Rinaldo will review early works as important precedents to later works, which will look at his artworks and scientific investigations, which expand notions of artificial intelligence, biological art, transpecies communication and artificial life. He proposes that an awareness of ecology and symbiosis in biological systems can point to software and hardware approaches, which look to the environment in which our intelligent machines may arise, emerge and intertwine.
