Michael Ricciardi is a multi-media artist, poet, citizen scientist, innovator and sometimes inventor, working with hand-drawing, photography, film/video, and digital ('new media') technologies. Michael's photographic and short film/video works have been exhibited and/or screened nationally (Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, NYC) and internationally (Vancouver, B. C., Canada, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Athens, Greece, and Rome and Naples (Ischia), Italy). In 2022, his black and white photo artwork 'Crime of Passion II' (a dual-image analog photo) received the 'runner up' (2nd place) honor in the 8th 'Fotosophia' competition -- part of the annual 'Bellezza' / Filosophia Festival of Ischia-Naples, Italy. Also in 2022, Michael was one of five winning designers in the inaugural #EqualSpace Space Games Challenge for his original live-action, micro-gravity-based space game 'Zero-Gordian'. In 2016, his short video 'A Dream of Space' was included (through a 'public art' call) as a digital file on-board NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission to asteroid 'Bennu'. Ricciardi continues to explore and experiment with new and old modes and mediums of artistic expression.
