In OWS art news: F.A.T.‘s Evan Roth has curated an internet exhibit/takeover, with known net artists like Aram Bartholl (also F.A.T.), Ryder Ripps (dump.fm), Mark Jenkins and more contributing animated, meme-infused gif protestors brandishing signs for the 99%. Since yesterday, they’re taking over hundreds of sites and counting! Read more »
It’s like Pee Wee’s Playhouse for brilliant geniuses at MoMA’s special exhibit Talk To Me, rounding up a whopping 194 communication-themed works, interfaces, devices and visualizations. There’s a finger implant that reads aloud into an ear implant, a plastic wide-open-mouth prosthesis for awkward mumblers, a Muslim prayer robo-rug that lights up neon when facing Mecca and so much more, oooaghgh… Read more »
This Graffiti Analysis sculpture/shadow tag from Evan Roth is part of Kitsch Digital in Barcelona. Looks even better with the close-up. Read more »
After the success of last year’s Kanye Webst Week, the minds over at Free Art and Technology are dedicating this one to Graffiti Markup Language. Already the standard for digital graffiti projects like Graffiti Analysis, Laser Tag and EyeWriter, the tag archiving file format is also the basis of another new release, a Graffiti Analysis iPhone app. Read more »
Graffiti Research Lab founder Evan Roth continues improving his tagging technology. For a new Hong Kong exhibition, the artist unveiled his digital blackbook for collecting and displaying visualizations of people’s handstyles. The motion graphics created at the opening of “New Media New Thinking” will remain on display at Input / Output gallery through November 1st. Watch the graffiti analysis demonstration after the jump. Read more »
Hactivist Evan Roth launched his latest project: Michael Jackson Public Domain Countdown. With the King of Pop dead, it will only take a little over 69 years until his music enters the public domain and anyone can use, free of charge! |F.A.T.|
Streetwise artist Evan Roth released his unofficial Wu-Tang inspired Firefox t-shirt: “Cache Rules Everything Around Me—Mozilla-zilla-zill-yall”. |ni9e|
Continuing his exploration of tags as a high art form, G.R.L. founder and hacktivist Evan Roth just unveiled an online manifestation of his ongoing Graffiti Taxonomy project. The website represents the artist’s contribution to “Born in the Streets,” a new graffiti exhibit at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. For those that need some brushing up on the project, here’s the gist of it: Read more »
Earlier this week, Paris’ Fondation Cartier opened “Born in the Streets,” an exhibition of graffiti styles diverging from its inception to the present. The main gallery space and garden have been filled with pieces and other graffiti-inspired works by artists including SEEN, JONONE, Barry McGee, Evan Roth, QUICK, and PHASE2. Approximating what the museum could look like following an uninvited tag attack, parts of the building’s façade and interior have been bombed with graffiti, including Pixacao tags from Brazilian artists. The show is on view through the end of November, but if you can’t see it in person, a selection of photos is below. Read more »
In one corner: Shepard Fairey, an artist who has built his empire on appropriated art but files cease and desist letters to artists who co-opt his work even for parody purposes. In the other corner: The Associated Press, the world’s biggest news service sometimes less accurate than MTV that claims “fair use” only applies to them, not others. These two challengers will vie to win a new competition organized by Evan Roth, the Graffiti Research Lab co-founder and Hova textualizer, who writes: Read more »
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