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Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award…

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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.

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May 3 2012, 2:55am | Comments »

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N2 Galeria Exhibition Photos…

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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. Press: El Pais (English) 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.

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April 26 2012, 8:04am | Comments »

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New Solo Exhibition Opens in Barcelona on Thursday

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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

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April 16 2012, 6:47am | Comments »

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Welcome To Detroit Photos….

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(Complete set here).

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April 9 2012, 6:59am | Comments »

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Last Week of Welcome To Detroit

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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

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March 28 2012, 10:34am | Comments »

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Exercises In Excessive Computing

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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.

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March 18 2012, 6:57pm | Comments »

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Propulsion Paintings

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“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:

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March 11 2012, 3:36pm | Comments »

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Welcome To Detroit Opens on Wednesday

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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. Eastern Michigan University’s University Gallery 900 Oakwood Street, 2nd Floor Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Reception @ EMU’s University Gallery October 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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March 11 2012, 1:53pm | Comments »

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Updates…

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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.

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March 7 2012, 6:58pm | Comments »

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Interview about upcoming solo exhibition in Detroit…

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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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January 19 2012, 5:15am | Comments »

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Re: SXSW Calling / Featured Speaker Invite

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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,

Great, glad you’ll be stateside around that time. In the midwest I believe?

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.

Other speakers of note coming this year: Ray Kurzweil, XXXXXX, XXXXXX, XXXXXX, Tim O’Reilly, XXXXXX, Dennis Crowley amongst others…

Hopefully this is a possibility for you.

XXXXXX