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Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, kindly invite
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<b>Evan Roth</b></div>
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exhibition<br>
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Aksioma | Project Space<br>
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<div style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Komenskega 18,
Ljubljana</div>
<div style="font-family:times new roman,serif">27 March – 12
April 2013</div>
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<div><b style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Artist's
presentation and exhibition opening: Wednesday, 27 March
2013 at 7 pm</b><font face="times new roman,serif"><br>
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<div style="font-family:times new roman,serif">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.<br>
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<font style="font-family:times new roman,serif" face="times
new roman,serif">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.<br>
<i>Skymall Liberation</i> (2007 – ongoing), for example, is
a series of collages using <i>Skymall</i> – 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”. <i>How
To Keep Motherfuckers From Putting Their Seats Back</i>
(2008) is a short video tutorial showing us how to resist
against economy class discomfort. <i>See You See Me</i>
(2009) is a two-channel video taken from inside airport
security X-ray devices.<br>
Finally, <i>TSA Communication</i> (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”.<br>
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<b>Evan Roth</b> 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.”</font><br
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<font style="font-family:times new roman,serif" face="times
new roman,serif"><b>Production:</b> Aksioma – Institute for
Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2013<br>
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target="_blank">www.aksioma.org</a><br>
Artistic Director: Janez Janša<br>
Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina<br>
Public Relations: Mojca Zupanič<br>
Technician: Valter Udovičić<br>
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<b>Thanks:</b> Roman Ulčnik, Adria Tehnika d.d. for lending
aircraft seats.</font><br style="font-family:times new
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<font style="font-family:times new roman,serif" face="times
new roman,serif"><i><b>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.</b><br>
Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.</i></font>
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<div style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Sonja Grdina, <a
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target="_blank">sonjagrdina@gmail.com</a></div>
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<b>Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</b></div>
<div style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Neubergerjeva
25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</div>
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