The ways in which people are capable of expressing themselves through the use of art is endless. To some extent, each person has an extremely different interpretation of introspection into their psych. In this paper though, the differences will be put on hold while the spotlight shifts to the similarities, for better or worse, that we all share. Alan Rath’s sculpture Infoglut for example, has a brutally honest take on how technology has shaped who we all are. Infoglut transforms parts of the human body through the use of technology and “industrial components.”(TOCA) The dark colors and hard material evokes a realistically negative view on how technology has molded people into nothing more than walking machines. Rath doesn’t try to make the sculpture visually appealing in any way in the sense of beauty. Rather he attempts to show his work by not hiding any of the hardware that makes his sculpture tick. In a sense, Rath is stripping a person of their humanity in order to make way for the newfound addiction to technology. …show more content…
Revealed to the world in 1996, many parts of the world were experiencing the explosion of the advancement of technology. The internet, or more specifically the world wide web was created in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee.(History.com) This creation changed modern day communication for the rest of time. Newer generations were surrounded by the endless information at their fingertips which some, most likely people like Rath, would argue is not for the better. Rath sculpture very clearly screams out to the world that somewhere along the way people lost parts of their humanity that made us different than the machines we rely