1:1 scale Tom Selleck
Monitor and Detroit Tigers baseball cap
17" x 22" x 18"
2012
Detroit
TSA Communication: Detroit, February 20, 2012
Single channel video
4:36
2012
Detroit
Emergency
Found objects
Dimensions variable
2012
Detroit
Ping Pong
Propulsion Painting series
Single channel video
00:18
2012
Detroit
Flag
Propulsion Painting series
Single channel video
00:48
2012
Detroit
Ball
Propulsion Painting series
Mixed media
28" x 28"
2012
Detroit
More info on this series here.
Skymall Liberation: White vs Non-White
Archival pigment print
32" x 21"
2012
Detroit
http://rodeo-on-orangered.com
Website
Dimensions variable
2012
Paris
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, Lot 2061, Space 3
Archival pigment print
20" x 30"
2012
Glendale, California
Exercises In Excessive Computing #1
Single channel video
02:14
2012
Detroit
Rapper Wish Fulfillment
Single channel audio
01:07
2012
Detroit
Steam
Single channel video
0:35
Detroit
2012
Welcome To Detroit
Eastern Michigan University Gallery of ArtMarch 14 - April 2, 2012
Ypsilanti, Michigan
"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.”he exhibition is an archive of an archive, with portraits of various person's daily online activities, a 42 meter long vinyl print with four months of Internet history compressed to a sculpture, laser etchings and the thoughtful little book Since You Were Born, dedicated to the artist's daughter. The book can be read in two opposite ways: as a beautiful story about the relation between a father and his new-born child, and as a reflexion of our intimate relationship with the web."
Press:
Huffington Post, Evan Roth Shows 'Welcome To Detroit' At Eastern Michigan University (PHOTOS)
El Pais, Del graffiti a la escultura ...y sin embargo se mueve (EN)
Creative Impact Michigan, 'Hacktivist' Evan Roth Returns to Michigan
Fast Company Design, Spray Paint Cans Hacked To Do Everything But Paint
