[spectre] Fwd: [aksioma_newsletter] INVITATION: Evan Roth at Aksioma Project Space

[Aksioma]

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invite you 
to the exhibition opening:
*Evan Roth*
/*Flight Mode*/
/Solo exhibition
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www.aksioma.org/flight.mode <http://www.aksioma.org/flight.mode/>
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Aksioma | Project Space
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Komenskega 18, Ljubljana
27 March – 12 April 2013
*Artist's presentation and exhibition opening: Wednesday, 27 March 2013 
at 7 pm*


Airports are the (non)places where the surveillance apparatus shows off 
its muscles. Airports are where security systems are first tested and 
fully employed. Airports are where privacy is immolated on the altars of 
control. Airports are the physical version of an information network. As 
such, airports have always fascinated artists, and they are the perfect 
playground for an artist who also happens to be a graffiti artist, a 
hacker and an open source coder, an artist such as Evan Roth.
Since 2007, Evan Roth – an American artist currently living in Paris and 
often traveling around the world – has been using airports as a platform 
on which to make art and deliver it to an audience in the form of 
micro-interventions that locate themselves between conceptual art, 
activism, media hacking and sabotage.
/Skymall Liberation/ (2007 – ongoing), for example, is a series of 
collages using /Skymall/ – a magazine distributed for free on American 
flights – as their source, and the small seat trays as their support. 
Roth organizes the images found on the magazine as starting points for 
ironic ethnographic data visualizations, such as “White vs Non-White”, 
or “Apple Products vs Non-Apple Products”. /How To Keep Motherfuckers 
 From Putting Their Seats Back/ (2008) is a short video tutorial showing 
us how to resist against economy class discomfort. /See You See Me/ 
(2009) is a two-channel video taken from inside airport security X-ray 
devices.
Finally, /TSA Communication/ (2008) is a project that alters the airport 
security experience, inviting the government to learn more about 
passengers than just the contents of their carry-on bags. Messages are 
cut into thin 13” x 10” sheets of stainless steel designed to 
comfortably fit inside airline carry-on baggage. During the X-ray 
screening process, the technology normally designed to view the contents 
of a traveler’s baggage is transformed into a communication tool for 
displaying messages aimed at airport security. The content of the plates 
varies from flight to flight, but includes “NOTHING TO SEE HERE”, an 
image of the American flag and the TSA’s (Transportation Security 
Agency’s) mission statement as listed on its website, “I AM THE 
FRONTLINE OF DEFENSE, DRAWING ON MY IMAGINATION TO CREATIVELY PROTECT 
AMERICA FROM HARM”, and “MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS”.


*Evan Roth* is an American artist based in Paris who applies a hacker 
philosophy to an art practice that visualizes transient moments in 
public space, online and in popular culture. Roth makes work 
simultaneously for the contemporary art world and for the “bored at 
work” network. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of 
Modern Art NYC and has been exhibited at various institutions, including 
the Centre Pompidou, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Tate, the Fondation 
Cartier and the front page of YouTube. In 2012, Roth was awarded the 
Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. Roth is also 
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 the words of his friend and collaborator Aram Bartholl: “I only know 
a few artists who have been that influential for a whole generation of 
Internet aware artists and art aware coders in the recent past. I always 
admired Evan for his radical openness. It takes a lot of guts as an 
artist to open up and share your artist practice to such an extent. 
Creating tools, generate and share open source code that enables 
everyone to make and distribute art online or in public space is Evans 
mission. His work is full of hacks for the browser and the city.”
*Production:* Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2013
www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org>
Artistic Director: Janez Janša
Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Mojca Zupanič
Technician: Valter Udovičić

*Thanks:* Roman Ulčnik, Adria Tehnika d.d. for lending aircraft seats.


/*The programme of Aksioma Institute is supported by the Ministry of 
Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and 
the Municipality of Ljubljana.*
Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o./
*Contact:*
Sonja Grdina, sonjagrdina at gmail.com <mailto:sonjagrdina at gmail.com>
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana*
Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org>







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