Alan Rath, "Positively," 2021, aluminum, fiberglass, custom electronics, motors, ostrich feathers, 84 × 72 × 60". Alan Rath, Positively, 2021, aluminum, fiberglass, custom electronics, motors, ostrich feathers, 84 × 72 × 60"
Kinetic and/or robotic art has been around for a century, but few of its makers have had Alan Rath’s prodigious gifts as both artist and engineer. Works in this memorial exhibition—Rath died at the age of sixty in 2020—included examples from some of the series for which he is best known: pieces incorporating digital animations of running figures, eyes, mouths, hands, and numbers; speakers that pulse rhythmically like hearts or wheezing lungs; and graceful orchestrations of oscillating feathers.
