Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga approaches art as a social practice that seeks to establish dialogue in public spaces. His work focuses on themes such as immigration, discrimination, gentrification and the effects of globalization in a manner that generates interaction and discussion by others. Ricardo has a master’s of fine arts from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ricardo’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; San Jose Museum of Art; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; The National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia; Momenta Art, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Linz, Austria; Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, N.Y.
New York Immigration Song is a data representation in the form of a digitally-controlled, acoustic sound installation. It features a network of mechanically-actuated piano strings stretched from nodes across a wall-mounted map to a central anchor point located at New York. New York City immigration data dating back to 1855 serves as material for an algorithmic musical composition, sonically representing the city’s changing population and the countries to which it is connected through its residents.
Biomodd is an art installation that finds meaningful relationships between biology, computers and people. Biomodd creates symbiotic relationships between plants and computers, and ignites conversations among the community around them.
