Kurt Ralske

Kurt Ralske (born 1967 in New York City) is an American visual artist and musician. He is the former singer and guitarist in alternative rock band Ultra Vivid Scene.

Biography During the mid-eighties, Ralske was a guitarist in the bands Nothing But Happiness and Crash.

In the late eighties and early-nineties he released three albums as Ultra Vivid Scene.

Ralske programmed and co-designed a 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC. In 2007, he received a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship grant. In 2003, his work received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, as a member of the video ensemble 242.pilots. He is also the author/programmer of Auvi, a video software environment.

In 2007, Ralske completed the interactive video accompaniment for Mathew Rosenblum's RedDust Opera.

Ralske is currently on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was formerly a Visiting Professor and Resident Artist at the Digital + Media Graduate Program of the Rhode Island School of Design, and was also a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts, in New York City, in the graduate program in Computer Art.

Discography Crash

Ultra Vivid Scene

Kurt Ralske amor.0+01 (Subrosa) kyrie eleison (Miau International)

Cathars locale (Computer Music Journal) Early Bells + Voices (Atomic) (Miau International)

Kurt Ralske / Keith Fullerton Whitman K+K (Reckankreuzung)

DVD releases 242.pilots 242.pilots live in Bruxelles (Carpark Records)