of high technology and the arts

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My name is Ken Rinaldo

and I'm a Professor in the Art and Technology program

in the Department of Art. We teach 3d modeling. We teach animation

We teach rapid prototyping and we teach robotics and we teach

you how to use the world wide web as a tool of promotion

but also as a tool of expression for making

socially engaged works of art. What our students learn in these programs basically

is they learn to read schematics,

they learn to solder, they learn the language

of how a schematic will relate to a physical thing

It's very important for us in Art and Technology to help our students to

decode what's happening in a computer and to use that to make something new,

to invent something new. One of the the recent installations that I did was

a very large installation of six

custom robotic arms. This was a commission from the city of Toronto

for a very large event called Nuit Blanche, where over

two and a half million people came out to celebrate contemporary arts.

ASC Tech was absolutely critical in allowing me to move forward with this work

because I was working with some software called Max/MSP and Jitter

but also working with robotic and using

Mac minis with solid-state drives in order to allow the robots to move and communicate

and the ASCTech team was just sent fantastic in helping me to achieve this project

in introducing me to some software for example that would allow

remote viewing, integrating it with sound software programs for example

all these things were so important but ASCTech

has also been so important for our program because we're really the largest

program in teaching 3d modeling and animation in the College of the Arts

and ASC Tech has been so incredibly supportive in

allowing us to try new forms of software,

experimental software, but also supporting the

280 students that we're teaching every semester

in our program in order that they can become

professional artists, professional animators, professional 3D modelers,

professional rapid prototyping artists as well.