I am very excited to announce I’ve been selected as this year’s winner of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Interactive Design.
Steven Kurutz from the New York Times published an interview with me today about the award and my work: Evan Roth, an Award-Winning Man of Many Tags.
First Lady Michelle Obama has agreed to serve as the Honorary Patron of the 2012 National Design Awards.
Propulsion Painting: Ball
Mixed Media
70cm x 70cm
Detroit
2012
User Name and Password
Lambda print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing
178cm x 125cm
Paris
2012
Graffiti Analysis, Vienna 2010
ABS Thermoplastic
35 x 46 x 25 cm
Vienna
2010
Internet Cache Archive, October 2, 2011
Lambda print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing
187cm x 125cm
Paris
2012
Slide to Unlock
(Multi-Touch Painting series)
Lambda print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing
178cm x 125cm
Paris
2012
Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris & New York
Silk screen print
100cm x 100cm
New York City
2011
When We Were Kings Diptych
Mixed media on canvas
200cm x 100cm
Paris
2012
Banners & Skyscrapers
Lambda print
130cm x 110cm
Paris
2012
Gold
(Graffiti Analysis Series)
Acrylic
28cm x 19cm x 19cm
Paris
2011
CAP
(Graffiti Analysis Series)
Chrome-dipped ABS Thermoplastic
37cm x 39cm x 24cm
Paris
2012
Skymall Liberation:
Women vs Men
Dogs vs Cats
Non-White People vs White People
Apple Products vs Non-Apple Products
White vs Non-White
Archival pigment print on Sintra
81cm x 53cm
Detroit
2012
evan@evan-roth.com (Self Portrait)
(Multi-Touch Painting series)
Lambda print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing
70cm x 50cm
Paris
2012
Angry Birds, Level I-1
(Multi-Touch Painting series)
Lambda print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing
70cm x 50cm
Paris
2012
One Gif Compositions
Single channel video
14:17
Paris
2012
Propulsion Paintings
Mixed Media and Single channel video
3:15
Paris
2012
Exposicion Evan Roth: La Vanguardia Americana
April 19 to June 1, 2012
N2 Galeria
Enrique Granados, 61
08008 Barcelona
Map here
Gallery hours: Tues to Sun, 11am to 1:30pm and 5pm to 9pm.
Big thanks to Monica, Jose Antonio and everyone at N2 Galeria. And special thanks to Jorge Rodriguez Gerada (*clink) for setting these wheels in motion.
If you happen to be in Barcelona this Thursday, please join me at N2 Galeria for the opening of my solo exhibition, “American Vanguard”. I’ve posted info and sneak peaks of some of the new pieces included in the exhibition below. More information can be found on the gallery’s website.
Exposicion Evan Roth: La Vanguardia Americana
April 19 to June 1, 2012
Opening reception Thursday, April 19 from 7pm to 10pm.
N2 Galeria
Enrique Granados, 61
08008 Barcelona
Map here
Gallery hours: Tues to Sun, 11am to 1:30pm and 5pm to 9pm.
Propulsion Painting: Ball
Single channel video
1:07
Detroit
2012
CAP (Graffiti Analysis Series)
Chrome dipped ABS Thermoplastic
37cm x 39cm x 24cm
Paris
2012
When We Were Kings Diptych
Mixed media on canvas
200cm x 100cm
Paris
2012
Angry Birds, Level I-1
(Multi-Touch Painting series)
Lambda print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing
70cm x 50cm
Paris
2012
One Gif Compositions
Single channel video
14:17
Paris
2012
The last day to see Welcome To Detroit is this Monday, April 2. More info at http://welcometodetro.it
Press:
Evan Roth Shows ‘Welcome To Detroit’ At Eastern Michigan University, Huffington Post
‘Hacktivist’ Evan Roth Returns to Michigan, Creative Impact Michigan
Evan Roth: Welcome To Detroit and Propulsion Paintings, Juxtapoz
Exercise In Excessive Computing is another new series from the Welcome To Detroit exhibition at Eastern Michigan University.
Big thanks to EMU, Ponyride, OmniCorp and Motor City Riot.
“Propulsion Paintings” is a new series for my upcoming Welcome to Detroit exhibition, which opens this Wednesday.
As part of my residency at Eastern Michigan University, I am teaching a course called Art and Hacking where I had the students create their own Propulsion Paintings as their first project. Below are the results:
I’m very excited to announce that my solo show at Eastern Michigan University opens this Wednesday. I’ve been making work in Detroit for the past month and have been incredibly inspired by the arts community here.
The show’s full press release is below.
Welcome To Detroit
Works by Evan Roth
March 14 to April 2, 2012
Curated by Gregory Tom
Eastern Michigan University’s University Gallery
900 Oakwood Street, 2nd Floor
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Reception @ EMU’s University Gallery March 14, 4:30pm – 7:00pm
“It is no secret that Detroit’s creative community has been attracting media attention of late. What started as photos of “Ruin Porn” and “$100 Dollar Houses” led to a flood of additional articles on creative activity in Detroit.
What more can be added then to this already extensive conversation? How can institutions support Detroit’s creative resurgence? Eastern Michigan University’s Art Department sought to provide one possible answer to this question by awarding Evan Roth the McAndless Distinguished Professorship for 2012. Composed of a 6-week residency in Detroit, a teaching opportunity at Eastern, a solo exhibition and a lecture tour, this award of $30,000 is designed to allow an artist to produce new work and reach across institutional borders.
Evan Roth’s exhibition, Welcome to Detroit, will feature nearly all-new work, much of it made during his residency. The work follows his core conceptual framework of appropriating popular culture and combining it with a hacker’s philosophy to highlight how small shifts in visualization can allow us to see our environment with new eyes, whether online, at home, in the city or at the airport. His work acts as both a mirror and vault to contemporary society, creating work that reflects and withstands a world of rapid advancements in computing power, changing screen resolution and repainted city walls.
His approach and work process takes inspiration from the free software movement and hacker ethos. The “hack”, a term stemming from early computing culture, describes a clever (often playful) intervention into an existing system that alters the intended purposes or meaning. Like the judo fighter using his opponent’s weight to his own advantage, a hack alters the originally intended purpose and turns it into something new. When creating works, Roth extends this metaphor to contemporary culture, and uses it to explore its function in public space, the gallery, pop culture, activism and the Internet.
For Welcome to Detroit, Evan mines everything from the spray paint can, to hip-hop music, to airplane shopping magazines and flight safety cards, resulting in a show that moves freely across media, but always with a sense of pop cultural pranksterism. From individual art objects to video pieces to documentation, the work is designed to simultaneously serve as a record of activity and creative output, while also underscoring important issues concerning copyright, public space, and our offline and online identities.”
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Gregory Tom, gtom(at)emich.edu, Gallery Director, Eastern Michigan University
Related images
Video still from ‘Propulsion Painting: USA’
Modified spray paint can and American flag
2012
Skymall Liberation: White vs Non-White
Collage made in-flight using found materials
2012
Video still from ‘TSA Communication: Detroit, February 20, 2012′
A performance involving a steel plate and security x-ray machine
Internet Cache Self Portrait: October 2, 2011
Every image that passed through the artist’s Internet browser over a two-week period.
One Gif Composition. 2012
All images courtesy of Evan Roth and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Solo Show “Welcome to Detroit” Opening March 14:
I’ve temporarily relocated to Detroit as part of my McAndless Distinguished Professorship position at Eastern Michigan University. I’m working out of a space called Ponyride near the corner of Vermont and Bagley.
My solo exhibition at the EMU University Gallery, called Welcome To Detroit, opens March 14th. If you’re in the area, please stop by:
Welcome to Detroit
March 14 – April 2
Opening Reception: Wed, March 14, 4:30pm – 7pm
Eastern Michigan University Gallery
900 Oakwood Street, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197
http://art.emich.edu/events/evan-rothwelcome-to-detroit
Online Shop Open Until March 21st:
For those of you interested in prints and records, I have just opened my online shop. I will be taking orders up until March 21st.
Online shop: http://factory.ni9e.com
Artist Talk and Class in Detroit:
On March 20th from 6pm – 8pm I will be giving an artist talk related to the work I’m doing in Detroit at the EMU Student Center Auditorium:
http://art.emich.edu/events/evan-roth-art-and-hacking
Eastern Michigan University
Student Center Auditorium
900 Oakwood Street, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Tue, March 20, 6 – 8pm
Talk at Kitchen Budapest Online:
A talk I gave last month in Budapest as part of Kitchen Budapest’s Storytelling series is now available online for free.
The following excerpt is from an article in the most recent Issue (#30) of huck magazine and talks about my upcoming solo exhibition ‘Welcome To Detroit’ at Eastern Michigan University:
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Hi XXXX,
Although the offer of a discounted hotel room is very tempting, I’m going to have to respectfully decline. I know this isn’t your policy personally, but could you pass the message up the ladder that this is a really disrespectful invitation that shows how little SXSW as an organization values artists. I’ve attached logos of your corporate sponsors below. I hope at future versions of SXSW you find a way funnel any of that money (or the money from your $1195 tickets) to the artists.
For more of my thoughts on this matter you can see my response to SXSW’s 2009 keynote invitation (it’s sad to see not much has changed since then):
http://www.blog.ni9e.com/why-i-wont-be-at-sxsw/
And this brilliant video I found on youtube (via Steve):
Thanks for your invitation, I know it comes from a sincere place. However, I respect my own work (and that of fellow artists) too much to consider an invitation like this.
All the best,
Evan
On 1/12/2012 11:09 PM, XXXXXX wrote:
> Hey Evan,
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> Great, glad you’ll be stateside around that time. In the midwest I believe?
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> As for a speakers fee, we do not offer one to anyone who comes to present. That’s been our policy from keynotes and featured speakers on down to general panel sessions since our inception.
>
> But all speakers do receive a comp’d Gold badge (about $1k value) which gets you into all Interactive and Film events as well as a discounted hotel room. You would also be presenting in a 2400 capacity room.
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> Other speakers of note coming this year: Ray Kurzweil, XXXXXX, XXXXXX, XXXXXX, Tim O’Reilly, XXXXXX, Dennis Crowley amongst others…
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> Hopefully this is a possibility for you.
>
> XXXXXX
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