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Richard Rinehart is Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and a digital media artist. Richard has taught digital art studio and theory at UC Berkeley and has also served as visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and JFK University. Richard sits on the Executive Committee of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media and has served on the San Jose Airport Art Project Oversight Committee. Richard manages research projects in the area of digital culture, including ‘Archiving the Avant Garde’, a national consortium of museums and artists distilling the essence of digital art in order to preserve it. He also developed ‘Museums and the Online Archive of California’, a state-wide project bringing together museums with the archives and libraries across the state of California to provide standards-based access to cultural collections.

Exhibitions of Richard’s digital art include a collaborative new media work, “Chimera Obscura” with Shawn Brixey for the “Genesis” a traveling exhibition at the Henry Art Museum, Seattle, the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley. His work, “Reading Class” was included in the exhibition “Other America” at Exit Art in New York. He has also been featured in a solo show for New Langton Arts NetWork series, and in NewFangle 2000 in San Francisco among other venues. Richard has presented papers on digital media art and culture at the College Art Association, Guggenheim museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Digital Archives conference in Kyoto, Japan, among others. He has published or been featured in New York Times, ArtNews, ArtWeek, Wired News, Leonardo, SWITCH: Journal of New Media Art, The Variable Media Approach book from the Guggenheim, and other publications. Focal areas of research and practice include museum informatics, digital art & media preservation, cultural metadata and taxonomies of the ephemeral, and the intersection of computability theories with practical and impractical cultural applications.