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June 24, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Evan Roth’s Ideas Worth Spreading was a stand-out piece in the F.A.T. GOLD five-year retrospective exhibition at Eyebeam in which visitors were invited to create and document their own fake TED Talk. In retrospect, the piece worked swimmingly. Not only have people been genuinely confused during the time of the exhibit as people Instagramed and tweeted themselves “doing TED Talks,” ANIMAL’s […]

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April 17, 2013 Marina Galperina

Artists Evan Roth (F.A.T., Graffiti Research Lab, Eye-Writer) and Geoffrey Lillemon (holy shit look at his website) teamed up for a new project, Image-of-Edessa.  Image-of-Edessa explores the notion of worship, the Internet and identity. A portrait is rendered entirely of animated gifs, a medium native to the web and commonly used to represent self in the form of […]

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April 4, 2013 Marina Galperina

“There’s some trademark violation going on, obviously. Whatever.” F.A.T. artist Aram Bartholl’s talking about Evan Roth’s project Ideas Worth Spreading. Pop on a headset, pop in your own Powerpoint or just stand next to the giant red “TED” and it’s your TED Talk. Sup? It’s an all F.A.T. international reunion at the Eyebeam Art+Technology Center’s Lindsay Howard-curated […]

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March 11, 2013 Marina Galperina

Artist Evan Roth has love for the GIF. Here’s his set of ten new One Gif Compositions, all created from single vintage GIF from the Heather’s Animations archive, chronicling early GIFs from as far back as 1999. You can see A Tribute To Heather in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, through June 30. They’re so pretty. […]

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January 7, 2013 Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist Evan Roth shares a computer sketch of the renowned project EyeWriter which allowed graffiti writer TEMPTONE — almost completely paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — to create graffiti using only his tracked eye movement and project it on buildings miles away. […]

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