Evan Roth

Open Source, Viral Media and Art That Isn't Boring

Evan Roth will be discussing the implications and importance of viral media as it relates to the arts. He will be introducing the principles of "lazy like a fox" and "releasing early, often and with rap music" as a way to seed free culture ideals in popular culture. He will also be highlighting collaborations between unlikely communities and showing what is possible when graffiti writers and computer hackers start hanging out more often. Projects to be presented include White Glove Tracking, the EyeWriter, L.A.S.E.R. Tag, Graffiti Analysis and Graffiti Markup Language.

Roth is co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab and the Free Art & Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab), a web-based, open source research and development lab. In addition, at the Parsons School of Design he has developed and teaches courses on viral media and urban hacking, a course a New York City councilman declared "an invitation to break the law". Roth's work has been featured in multiple media outlets, including NPR, the New York Times, Liberation, Time magazine, CNN, the Guardian, ABC News, and Esquire.

To find Roth's work online, just google "bad ass mother fucker".