Evan Roth (Artist)

Evan Roth stands at the forefront of digital street art innovation, creating groundbreaking projects that merge traditional graffiti culture with cutting-edge technology to explore how digital systems affect urban experience and artistic expression. His work consistently examines the intersection between physical and virtual spaces, often documenting and reinterpreting graffiti through digital media, data visualization, and interactive installations.

Evan Roth’s Propulsion Paintings

A few days ago, the Welcome To Detroit exhibition by Evan Roth (the guy who invented the Graffiti Markup Language) finished and after presenting several new works, combining popular culture with a certain hacker’s philosophy, what persists is all those great short-films, Roth created documenting his Propulsion Paintings series… Evan Roth has been living and making new work in Detroit for the last month, gearing up for a solo exhibition that opens this Wednesday at Eastern Michigan University: Welcome to Detroit. His new series of artworks is called: Propulsion Paintings. As part of his residency at Eastern Michigan University, he’s teaching a course called Art and Hacking where he had the students create their own Propulsion Paintings as their first project. (todayandtomorrow.net) ...

Laser Tagging 2.0 - Laser Knuckles

Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) developers Evan Roth and Julien Tèchoueyres recently published prototype presentation of their latest laser tagging intervention which is simply called Laser Knuckles! Laser Knuckles is a devise which combines several laser pointers, some more hard- as well as software to write texts, which can be made visible using long-exposure photography, on any imaginable surface… Evan Roth, who invented the Graffiti Markup Language, is the major head behind the worldwide Graffiti Research Lab. Again he showed what’s possible when you combine artistic aspirations and technical knowledge! ...

Open Web Award: Hackers, meet Graffiti Writers

Graffiti Hacking | Although for some of you hacking is just a seven-letters word starting with h, for me the top news of today is about Evan Roth and his graffiti analysis project. Roth, who is one of the heads behind the Graffiti Research Lab (GRL), earned a lot of fame and credit for his computer-based researches on graffiti in the last months. Now his work gets another publicity push, when Mozilla Drumbeat chooses the “Graffiti Markup Language” for this year’s “Open Web Award” finalists! ...