Evan Roth
Evan Roth is a visual artist who for two decades has created installations, photographs, paintings, and videos for museums, public spaces, and the internet. Much of his work challenges perceptions of unseen systems while amplifying personal agency. He views the first 10 years of his practice as experimenting with speed in response to the growing internet, and the last 10 years as employing slowness to resist accelerationism. His work has been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Art Center, Tokyo; and Les Rencontre d’Arles.
Random Walk
Evan Roth will give an overview of his twenty-year artistic practice, which spans laser graffiti, net art, activism, open source software, installations, photography, painting, and quilting. Much of his work challenges perceptions of unseen systems while amplifying personal agency. Beginning with earlier works such as T.S.A Communication and Since You Were Born, along with projects under his collectives Graffiti Research Lab, F.A.T. Lab, Roth frames the first decade of his practice as experiments in speed in response to the growing internet. Over the past ten years, his work shifted towards slowness as a way to resist accelerationism, with his projects Landscapes, Strands, and Skyscapes. The talk will culminate with new work completed during his residency at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Namur, which draws on the “random walk” of sun photons to explore how relational understandings of speed and slowness might come together in a singular artistic gesture.
