Evan Roth (born 1978) is an American artist who applies a hacker philosophy to an art practice that visualizes transient moments in public space, online and in popular culture.

Biography

Evan Roth received a degree in architecture from

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

and a MFA from the Communication, Design and Technology school at

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, where he graduated as class valedictorian. During his time at Parsons, he developed several projects, including Graffiti Taxonomy, Typographic Illustration, Explicit Content Only and Graffiti Analysis, his thesis project. Roth was named one of the ten most interesting recent graduates of 2006. After graduating Roth worked at the Eyebeam OpenLab, an open source creative technology lab for the public domain as a Research and Development Fellow from 2005–2006 and a Senior Fellow from 2006-2007. Roth's work with graffiti, open source technology and public space led to him forming the

Graffiti Research Lab Graffiti Research Lab is an art project founded by Evan Roth and James Powderly James Powderly (born 1976) is an artist, designer and engineer whose work has focused on creating tools for graffiti artists and political activists, designing ro ...

("GRL") with

James Powderly James Powderly (born 1976) is an artist, designer and engineer whose work has focused on creating tools for graffiti artists and political activists, designing robots and augmented reality platforms, and promoting open source culture. Biography ...

in 2005. GRL projects include LED throwies and L.A.S.E.R. Tag. In 2007, Roth co-founded the

Free Art and Technology Lab The Free Art and Technology Lab a.k.a. F.A.T. Lab was a collective of artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers, and musicians, dedicated to the merging of popular culture with open source technology. F.A.T. Lab was known for producing artwork cri ...

(F.A.T. Lab), an Internet-based art-and-technology collective dedicated to the intersection of open-source hacking and popular culture. He has worked under the pseudonym ''fi5e''. Roth and Ben Engebreth were awarded a 2007 Rhizome Commission for White Glove Tracking, which was presented at the Contemporary New Museum in New York City. Roth was again awarded a Rhizome Commission in 2008 for his project "T.S.A. Communications". Several of Roth's work are in the permanent collection of the

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. Roth currently lives in Berlin with his wife. In 2012, he was awarded a Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt

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Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions, screenings and performances include: * 2004, The Cracow Film Festival, Cracow, Poland * 2005, Typsonic, Ingolstadt, Germany * 2005, Tokyo Type Directors Club Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Curated by

John Maeda John Maeda (born 1966) is a Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. He is an American technologist and designer whose work explores where business, design, and technology merge to make space for the "humanist technolo ...

) * 2006,

Ars Electronica Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979. It is based at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which houses the Museum of the Future, in the ...

, ''Goodbye Privacy'', Linz, Austria * 2007, Eyebeam, ''Open City'', New York City, New York * 2007,

, ''Second City'', Linz, Austria * 2007, IEEE, ''Infovis Art Show'', Sacramento, California * 2007, Microwave Festival, ''Luminous Echo'', Hong Kong * 2007, 2nd Digital Arts Festival, ''OpenPlay'', Taipei City, Taiwan * 2007, Sundance Film Festival, ''New Frontiers'', Park City, Utah * 2008, Museum of Modern Art, ''Design and the Elastic Mind'', New York City, New York * 2008, Videotage, ''Secondlife'', Hong Kong * 2008, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, ''Beyond a Memorable Fancy'', New York City, New York * 2008, Netherlands Media Art Institute, ''Speaking Out Loud'', Amsterdam, Netherlands * 2008, Tate Modern, ''Street Art'', London, UK * 2008, Thailand Creative & Design Center, ''Perishable Beauty Exhibition'', Bangkok, Thailand * 2008, Museum of Modern Art, ''Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge'', New York City, New York * 2009, Filmwinter, Festival For Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany * 2009, AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE, Solo exhibition, Vienna, Austria * 2009, Kurzfilmtage, 55th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany * 2009, Fondation Cartier, Born In The Streets - Graffiti, Paris, France * 2010, British Design Museum, Brit. Insurance Design of the Year 2010, London, UK * 2011, Kitsch Digital: Tres décadas de interferencias en la web, Can Felipa. Barcelona, España. Curator Helena Acosta

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roth, Evan 1978 births American graffiti artists American conceptual artists Living people Artists from New York (state) Digital art Hacker culture Parsons School of Design alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni National Design Award winners People from Okemos, Michigan