Ken Rinaldo

Ken Rinaldo
Ken Rinaldo is an American artist, who creates interactive installations based on the intersection between nature and technology. His works consist of interactive r

obotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies co

mmunication, and also deals with ecological issues. ==Case study on Papparazzi Bots, 2009 ==

Papparazzi Bots 2009: Autonomous Surveillance Robots is a series of three robots standing at human height. The objective these robots are to capture photos of humans, mainly

celebrities, due to the society’s obsession with the celebrities. The robots automatically stop take photos of the identified person, ignoring the other people presence at the installation.

The work explores the idea of machine interacting with humans.

Case study on Autotelematic Spider Bots, 2006
Autotelematic Spider Bots 2006 is an artificial life robotic



installation, which consist of spider-like looking bots with ultrasonic eyes seeking for human interaction. Infared eyes allow the spider bots to avoid obstacles, when humans or other robots are spotted, bright LEDs on the robot illuminates as an indication of their presence. The spider bots communicate with each other through a 2.4ghz Bluetooth communication, which allows a richer performance of group behavior.

The main food source for these spider bots is their recharge station, seek-food-mode is initiated when the spider bots are sensing they’re hungry. One of the robots has a video cam mounted on it, and projects it’s first person view on to the wall of the installation.