Career
He is the former singer and guitarist in alternative rock band. During the mid-eighties, Ralske was a guitarist in the bands Nothing But Happiness and In the late eighties and early-nineties he released three albums as.
After his last album under the moniker, he produced, engineered, and performed on numerous albums for a variety of artists, including Ivy, Rasputina, Charles Douglas and Los Planetas.
In 2001 he released another two albums, Amor. The Amor. 0 + 01 album featured several digital video clips.
Since then he has focused on digital video. His video installations and performances are created exclusively with his own custom software and his work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Artist
Ralske programmed and co-designed a 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in New York City. In 2007, he received a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship grant.
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 a Visiting Professor and Resident Artist at the Digital + Media Graduate Program of the Rhode Island School of Design, and is also on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, in New York City, in the graduate program in Computer Artist
