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Alan Rath lives and works in Oakland, CA. He studied electrical engineering at MIT -- earning his degree in 1982 -- and also experimented at the Visible Language Workshop, the Architecture Machine Group, and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His anthropomorphic, kinetic and/or interactive sculptures have been exhibited in over 27 solo and 85 group shows throughout the country, and Japan, Spain, Finland, Germany, Italy, and Canada. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Rath's one-person exhibitions include: 1999: Friendly Machines, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1998: Alan Rath: Robotics, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; Bio-Experiments: Unnatural Specimens, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California; SITE Santa fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Group exhibitions include: 2000: Made in California, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; A Lasting Legacy, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; 1999-2000: Ghost in the Shell, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Digital Catalogues, Cincinnatti Arts Association Aronoff Center, Cincinnatti, Ohio; Double Trouble: the Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California.

"I'm interested in this whole idea that people put technology out there at arm's length.... They think it's so external and they don't seem to link it with the body and with us. We're much closer to it. We like this stuff. We use this stuff. And yet we're alienated from it."