Kal Spelletich has been a pivotal figure in the machine art and robotics community and frequently collaborates with scientists, engineers, musicians, and audiences. His work is performative and interactive and requires the participation of viewers, inspiring social engagement both inside the gallery and outside in the world. Kal questions the values, roles, and norms inherent in how our culture develops, applies, and uses technology. He is an anarchist, activist, guerrilla gardener, and educator.

Born in 1960 and raised in Davenport, Iowa, the seventh of nine children. 

He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, both in the field of Media Art. He has won numerous awards and performed, exhibited, and lectured worldwide, collaborating with scientists, musicians, and politicians. Spelletich’s work has been included in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions over the past four decades, including Zentrum fur Kunst and Medien, De Young Museum, SFMOMA, The Exploratorium Museum and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, S.F., Ca., California Folk Art Museum, L.A., Ca., Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, Ca., and Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, Ca. He has exhibited internationally in Namibia, India, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, France, the Czech Republic, England, Slovakia, and Austria, to name a few. Spelletich lives and works in San Francisco, California.