Artist Talks #2: Sally Kong and Romilly Rinck || ancient://technolgy by 5x5 Collective

​Sally Kong and Romilly Rinck are both artists exploring the spaces between biology, histories, and expression. Come hear them describe their works, Mitos and Limuli, along with a discussion of their processes and animating inspirations.

​Sally Kong (she/her) is a software engineer, artist, and hobby biologist based in Brooklyn, NY. She has built artist tools and 3D production pipelines for feature animation and games at Blue Sky Studios, Netflix, and Rockstar Games. Her creative practice revolves around fusing technology with traditional crafts to translate the poetry in living systems into familiar forms.

​Romilly Rinck is a British visual artist, material researcher, and educator based in New York, NY. Mainly working in sculpture and installation, she explores embodied materialities through traditional textile techniques and experimental material processes. Romilly received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design (2023) and her BA in History of Art and Material Studies from University College London (2015).

​Working at the intersection of textiles, ecology, and heritage crafts, her process is led by material and site-based research. As an animist, she listens to stories of places and materials. Exploring healthier alternatives to petrochemical-based materials, such as root systems and bacterial cellulose, she moves beyond binary distinctions between organic and inorganic, towards an ethics and agency of materials, their life cycles, and their human and nonhuman stories.