Misha Rabinovich (USA) is investigating the idea of Waste as a cultural construct and is interested in making ecology legible through gaming. He was recently growing plants using only the dynamic light and sound of projected YouTube videos to create a web‐enabled alchemical installation that transmutes cultural waste into fertilizer. He co‐founded an international artistic think tank called the DS Institute which built a mobile sauna and took it on a tour throughout New York State starting at the Everson Museum in Syracuse and culminating at the New Museum’s Ideas City Festival in NYC. Sauna bathers were invited to donate their sweat as the active ingredient of an electrical battery created on the spot to charge cell phones and symbolize collective energy.

In the summer of 2014 Misha was an artist in residence at the Flux Factory in NYC where he co-created the Pink Noise Salon. The summer before that he was an artist in residence at McGill’s Centre for Intelligent Machines in Montreal where he staged ordering interventions in a dataset of 100 top movies using AI software originally developed for robotic anomaly detection. His past accomplishments include a massive collaborative motion‐capture game for SIGGRAPH created with NYU’s Motion Research Lab, an audio‐visual interactive installation at the Prague Biennale created jointly with Rensselaer and Columbia students and faculty, and exhibits of his artworks in the US and Europe. His work is supported by grants including the 2013‐14 Post MFA Ginsburg Klaus Fellowship. Misha teaches digital media and freelances as a designer and software developer. Misha was born in Moscow, Russia and lived in New York and Los Angeles.

http://misharabinovich.com/