Evan Roth

Evan Roth

America

 

Based in Berlin, Roth’s practice visualizes and archives typically unseen aspects of rapidly changing communication technologies. Through a range of media from sculpture to websites, the work addresses the personal and cultural effects surrounding these changes and the role of individual agency within the media landscape. Roth’s work has been exhibited at the Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Jeu de Paume, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He is the co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab and the Free Art & Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab) and his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art NYC.

Landscapes

Network located videos

Variable size

2016–2020

 

Landscapes is a large multi-country series of landscape videos filmed at submarine fiber optic cable landing locations around the world, where structures of power, ownership, history, and communications infrastructure overlap. Pieces were filmed using a camera that was modified to film within infrared, a similar frequency range as the infrared wavelengths used to transmit internet data through fiber optic cables. Each slow-moving video is 12 to 18 minutes in length and has a title that indicates both its location on the web (as a URL) and on the globe (as a GPS coordinate), challenging perceptions of traditional forms of landscapes and the relationships among time, screens and data. His work manifests the unseen infrastructure of network under the visible landscapes in our life. The project, which I worked on for four years, was supported by grants from Creative Capital (US) and Artangel (UK), and disseminated online and through a series of solo exhibitions, lectures and workshops.

Image courtesy of Erik Nordenhake, “Common Interests and Reciprocal Esteem”, Erik Nordenhake, April 5–May 5, 2018, Stockholm.

 

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