"Evan Roth is an American artist based in Paris whose practice visualizes and archives culture through unintended uses of technologies. Creating prints, sculptures, videos and websites, his work explores the relationship between misuse and empowerment and the effect that philosophies from hacker communities can have when applied to digital and non-digital systems."
Roth's work is a part of the permanent collection of MoMA, and has been exhibited at many other important modern & contemporary art museums such as the Tate, Pompidou, and has received numerous awards.
Roth seems to be producing a lot of different work, using a plethora of different media. Some of his pieces are created using 'new media' but he also has quite a few pieces that are simply commentaries on today's culture of continuously discovering new technologies. His piece, A Tribute To Heather, is a series of ten websites created by Roth in order to pay homage to Heather, the creator and host of a website from the computers' early age in the 90s. The Museum of Moving Images in New York (who commissioned the piece) released a statement, "A Tribute to Heather consists of ten compositions created by embedding a single animated GIF in a website hundreds of times to produce a rich tapestry of color and motion. The URL of each composition serves as its title, describing the repeated animation and the background color. Because file load times vary every time a One Gif Composition website is accessed, each viewing is unique.
The animations in A Tribute to Heather were sourced from Heathers Animations, a sprawling hand-coded archive of 90s-era animated GIFs and background images operated by its elusive namesake, Heather. Founded in 1999, the site maintains the ethos of the early web, eschewing author attribution and copyright concerns to offer a wandering taxonomy of thousands of downloadable images."
Roth's work is a part of the permanent collection of MoMA, and has been exhibited at many other important modern & contemporary art museums such as the Tate, Pompidou, and has received numerous awards.
Roth seems to be producing a lot of different work, using a plethora of different media. Some of his pieces are created using 'new media' but he also has quite a few pieces that are simply commentaries on today's culture of continuously discovering new technologies. His piece, A Tribute To Heather, is a series of ten websites created by Roth in order to pay homage to Heather, the creator and host of a website from the computers' early age in the 90s. The Museum of Moving Images in New York (who commissioned the piece) released a statement, "A Tribute to Heather consists of ten compositions created by embedding a single animated GIF in a website hundreds of times to produce a rich tapestry of color and motion. The URL of each composition serves as its title, describing the repeated animation and the background color. Because file load times vary every time a One Gif Composition website is accessed, each viewing is unique.
The animations in A Tribute to Heather were sourced from Heathers Animations, a sprawling hand-coded archive of 90s-era animated GIFs and background images operated by its elusive namesake, Heather. Founded in 1999, the site maintains the ethos of the early web, eschewing author attribution and copyright concerns to offer a wandering taxonomy of thousands of downloadable images."
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| All images from A Tribute To Heather (2013) |
Roth's piece Level Cleared is a multi-touch painting series that consists of 300 iPhone-sized pieces of tracing paper, with inked finger swipes that are used in the iPhone's game, Angry Birds. According to the Science Gallery website, it is “a visualization of every finger swipe needed to complete the popular mobile game of the same name. The gestures are visualized on sheets of paper the same size as the iPhone the game was originally created for. Angry Birds is part of a larger series that Roth has been working on over the last year called Multi-Touch Paintings. These compositions are created by performing simple routine tasks on multi-touch handheld computing devices [ranging from unlocking the device to checking Twitter] with inked fingers. The series is a comment on computing and identity, but also creates an archive of this moment in history when we have started to manipulate pixels directly through gestures that we were unfamiliar with just over 5 years ago.”
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| All images from Level Cleared (2012) |
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