Michael Ricciardi

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Michael Ricciardi

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Michael Ricciardi is a published experimental poet and multi-media artist working primarily with photographic, 'mixed' media (hand-drawn + photo art + digital), film/video/audio, and new media. Many of his works address scientific or environmental themes and concepts. Since 2003, Michael has had various jury-selected works (photos, short videos) exhibited nationally (Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL, Athens, GA, Taos, NM), and internationally (Buenas Aires, Argentina, Vancouver, British Columbia, Athens, Greece, Naples-Ischia, Italy). In 2002 and 2003, Ricciardi received two back-to-back grants from the Paul G. Allen Foundation for the Arts to curate, produce, and re-stage the new media, experimental poetics exhibition 'Future ForWORD' for the Seattle Poetry Festival (2002) and The Bumbershoot Arts Festival (2003).

In 2017, his 'micro-doc' video 'A Dream of Space' was included (as part of the public art component) on-board NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission to asteroid Bennu (#WeTheExplorers, ASU). Most recently, Michael was awarded runner up (2nd place) in the 8th annual (2022) 'Fotosophia' competition/exhibition (part of the annual 'Bellezza' (Beauty) / Filosophia Festival of Naples-Ischia (Italy) for his analog photo artwork 'Crime of Passion II ('Crimina di pasione II'). Also in 2022, Ricciardi was one of 5 selected winners in the inaugural #EqualSpace space games challenge (sponsor: Space Games Federation) for his live-action, micro-gravity, knot-tying game 'Zero-Gordian.' Michael lives in Seattle, Washington.