
AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE is the first solo show of Graffiti Research Lab co-founder Evan Roth. This exhibition contains new as well as past work and includes pieces currently in the permanent collection of the MoMA NYC as well as prints from the latest Jay-Z video. Driven by his motto "release early, often and with rap music", humor, activism, hip-hop and technology are frequent themes that carry across multiple media, including custom computing hardware, lasers, prints and canvases. The title of the exhibition, AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE, alludes to the friction between the artist's interest in utilizing the web as a medium for freely sharing content and ideas, and the art world's interest in unique objects and limited editions. While many of the works created for the gallery are indeed unique, they are also made available for free online in their digital form.
A prominent strain of Roth's work explores the intersection of digital technology and modern graffiti. Perhaps the most well known is Laser Tag, created as part of the Graffiti Research Lab, a collaborative which has been featured at the Tate Modern, the Sundance Film Festival and Ars Electronica and currently is on display at the MoMA in New York City. Roth's predecessor project, Graffiti Analysis, is an interactive installation that allows visitors to digitally explore the three dimensional animated tags of New York City graffiti writers. The project, created in 2004, is one the first times digital technology was used in the graffiti writing community and sets the stage for what would later become the Graffiti Research Lab. Roth's work in graffiti has taken him all over the world, has received over 1 million Youtube views, and has been featured in the New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and TIME magazine.
AVAIALBLE ONLINE FOR FREE is curated by Sydney Ogidan (Apocalyptic Colors)
Advanced Minority Artspace
Westbahnstrasse 22, 1070 Vienna, Austria
http://www.polytoxical.com
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