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Pheromone Robot Stories

This 3D animation envisions a future where humans and robots coexist, exploring a provocative question: What if robots could detect human pheromones that we unknowingly emit? Could they potentially manipulate us using similar chemical signals? Titled "The Pheromone Robot Stories," this science fiction narrative delves into the novel interactions between humans and robots facilitated by these sensory capabilities. The piece combines compelling 3D visuals with an immersive sound design, enhancing the storytelling experience. It was specifically commissioned by international curator Patrick Gyger, for a solo exhibition at La Maison d'Ailleurs, the Museum of Science Fiction, Utopia, and Extraordinary Journeys, located in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.

  • Ken E Rinaldo
    Director
  • Ken Rinaldo
    Writer
  • Mario Serrano
    Collaborators
  • Seung Yoon
    Collaborators
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 49 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 11, 2010
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    Switzerland
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • LA MAISON d’AILLEURS, MUSEUM OF SCIENCE FICTION
    Yverdon
    Switzerland
    September 11, 2010
    Switzerland
    Commission of Film
  • THE ABERDEEN PAVILION
    Aberdeen
    Canada
    November 7, 2015
    Canadian Premiere
    Official Selections of Festival
  • CENTRO NATIONAL DES ARTES
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    November 27, 2014
    Mexico Premiere
    Official Selection of Exhibition
  • SALONE DELGI INCANTI
    Trieste
    Italy
    November 9, 2018
    Italian Premiere
    Official Selection of Festival on robotic art
Director Biography - Ken E Rinaldo


Ken Rinaldo is internationally recognized as a pioneer in bio art, 3D animation and robotic interactive art installations. These installations develop hybrid ecologies with humans, machines, plants, animals, and more than human others by constructing idealized social, biological, and machine symbionts. Film, video and 3D animation are essential means by which Rinaldo explores ways of developing and supporting these conceptual concerns.
His work interrogates fuzzy boundaries and posits that as new machinic & algorithmic species arise, we need to understand the complex constructive and destructive ecologies that a semi-living species may shape. Trans-species communication enhanced by machine learning will empower animal agency, insect, bacterial, and emergent machine intelligence while expanding understanding of more than human others.

Rinaldo’s works have traveled to 35 countries, receiving an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica, First prize at Vida 3.0 for Autopoiesis, First Prize for his Video Opera for Dying Insects at the Great Plains Nature Center Video competition, A United Nations Green Leaf Award, and commissions from Nuit Blanche, Vancouver Olympics, and Te Papa and Kiasma Museums.

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