Alan Rath, Maker of Innovative Kinetic Sculptures Guided by Software, Has Died at 60

Alan Rath, the influential Bay Area artist known for his pioneering electronic sculptures, died on October 27. He was 60. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that his gallerist Dianne Dec, who curated exhibitions of his work at Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco, the cause was complications from a rare form of multiple sclerosis.
Since the early 1980s, Rath has created kinetic sculptures guided by software of his own making. Rath’s robotic structures often feature computer-generated an