photo by Renee Rosensteel
Keny builds sculpture and interactive kinetic art that plays with the way people relate to the world around them. Hand-built devices are combined in seemingly ridiculous ways as a means of critiquing the increasingly invisible world that technology inhabits. Electric motors, surplus lab equipment, and scrap hardware are used to build systems with transparent inner workings, devices that counteract the “blackbox” nature of technology, which as it becomes modernized, gets increasingly smaller, encased, and harder to understand.
Keny currently is the Manager of Arts & Culture for the Allegheny County Airport Authority, where he manages the Art in the Airport Program and PIT Performing Arts Series at the Pittsburgh International and Allegheny County Airports.