ABOUT

RSI Bio

RSI (Research/Synthesis/Implementation) is an art and technology team that advocates for and designs irrational human-computer interfaces. Our name reflects our approach to working with technology: a constant feedback loop of researching, synthesizing, and implementing our ideas.

Silvia Ruzanka (Research) is a media artist whose projects include video, installation, performance, and virtual environments. Her work concerns the archaeology and memory of technology and media, and their intersections with everyday life. Katherine Behar (Synthesis) is an interdisciplinary artist whose artwork spans interactive installation, performance art, public art, photography and video art. Her projects explore contemporary digital culture, mixing low and high technologies to create hybrid forms that are by turns humorous and sensuous. Ben Chang (Implementation) is an electronic artist whose work explores virtual environments and experimental gaming. Using immersive visualization systems, modified surveillance cameras, hacked video games, and antique telegraphs, his work brings out chaotic, human qualities in technological systems.

Jointly, RSI's artworks are exhibited worldwide, at venues including MediaTerra (Athens), FILE (Sao Paulo), Mediations Biennale (Poznan), New Forms Festival (Vancouver), Judson Church (New York), Gosia Koscielak Gallery (Chicago), CamouFlash (Dresden), Chicago Cultural Center, De Balie (Amsterdam), Digital Live Art Festival (Leeds), PostsovkhoZ 6 (Mooste), and numerous galleries, among others. RSI's original research has been presented at the Hamburg Media School and published in SPIE's Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality Proceedings.