Sunday, April 18, 2010

Class Notes: Evan Roth

Evan Roth: Bad Ass Mother Fucker
- design, art, street art, popular culture
- background in architecture
"bored at work network": browse online and waste time- good audience
- appeal to curator and friends/people bored at work
- activism
- The Pirate Bay: use popular culture to spread information/internet/free culture
- open source and free culture- 5th element of hip-hop
Parsons (grad school): information visualization
- interest in curse words
- Straight Out of Compton: edit of only curse words (reduction, not remix)
- interested in creating a discussion about copyrighting, censorship, ect.
Graffiti and Technology
- free (as in free beer)
- free (as in free speech)
- peer systems in which individual players alter large and established systems.
- property: physical v.s. intellectual
project: editing postage labels
- quick weekend project
- hacking: small interventions that alter large systems
"Lazy like a fox"- how little work you can do to communicate your idea
Graffiti Taxonomy
- Tufti- eye is drawn to small differences
- lower east side- photos of tags- isolate characters in photoshop
- study on motion- computer application
- projections- reinserting motion into city
Eyebeam- technology non-profit
- award fellowships to do research, have to release work in open source.
- teamed up with James Powderly- LED throwies (rare-earth magnets)
- graffiti embedded with technology
How To Guide: Contagious Media + Source Code = Win!
Graffiti Research Lab- design tolls for graffiti artists and activists and make graffiti open source
- L.A.S.E.R. Tag- motion tracking
Eyewriter- for people with paralysis- eye motions create art
- Tempt- A.L.S. patient
Graffiti Analysis 2.0
- in 3-d space (z-axis is time)
- can download software and source code- open database
- 3-d modeling system- leads to 3-d printing
Jay-Z: Brooklyn We Go Hard
- released source code
Google Car (Fuck Google)- free art and technology organization (F.A.T.)
- Berlin, transmediale
- fuck google- 20 projects published on blog
- google street view- duplicated google car
- made it seem real with 1 tweet and webpage with map. then it was released after that it was a hoax.
- Turn the power structure inside out.
- learned flash in spare time while working in architecture- Joshua Davie
- meme- web media news
- advertising= lies, all about authenticity
- instructables. com
Viral Media For Artists: 11 Rules For Getting Famous on the Internet
-woostercollective
-boingboing- suggest a link

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