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author: Jan Brennenstuhl
categories:
- Urban Design
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  alt: Evan Roth’s Propulsion Paintings
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date: '2012-04-07T17:22:32Z'
description: Evan Roth’s work process takes inspiration from free software movement and hacker ethos. His latest series is called Propulsion Paintings...
tags:
- Documentary Film
- Evan Roth
- Painting
- Urban Hacking
title: Evan Roth’s Propulsion Paintings
url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/evan-roth-propulsion-paintings/
---

# Evan Roth’s Propulsion Paintings

A few days ago, the [*Welcome To Detroit*](http://welcometodetro.it/) exhibition by **Evan Roth** (the guy who invented the [Graffiti Markup Language](/hackers-graffiti-writers/)) 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](http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2012/03/12/propulsion-paintings/))

The main act in all of those videos is a moded spay-can and a ordinary something, like the Stars and Stripes, a table tennis ball, etc. In this way, [Evan](http://evan-roth.com/work/propulsion-paintings/) hands over the reins to a semi-automated spray-can and tries to highlight how small shifts in visualization can allow us to see our environment with new eyes... Quite interesting in my eyes!

[Video on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/38251266)
[Video on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/37921655)
[Video on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/37927700)
[Video on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/37997373)

Via [rebelart.net](http://www.rebelart.net/diary/evan-roth-propulsion-paintings/0013100/), [whudat.de](http://www.whudat.de/propulsion-paintings-by-evan-roth-4-shorties/), [artschoolvets.com](http://www.artschoolvets.com/news/2012/03/19/propulsion-paintings-evan-roth-lasst-die-spraydosen-los-video/).