CITRIS Research Exchange: Ambulatory Sculptures and Dancing Robots

April 4, 2007: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley

Ambulatory Sculptures and Dancing Robots
Alan Rath [Electronic Sculptor, Oakland]

12:00 p.m. on April 4 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley

Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the spring semester is online at RE-Spring2007. As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live online at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.

Well known for his electronic, kinetic, and robotic sculpture, Alan Rath has produced ever-evolving work since the early 1980s. Although largely self-taught in electronics and art, Rath holds a degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

An acknowledged pioneer in the exploration of electronics as an art form, Rath has been central to the developing dialogue of the role of new media in the arts. The computers he creates and places within handcrafted aluminum, steel, glass, and plastic armatures are capable of complex directives over time (some evolve over decades). The “life force” in these machines is encapsulated and carefully controlled with seeming aesthetic and mechanical ease.

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