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PROJECT ATRIUM: EVAN ROTH

Since You Were Born

MARCH 16, 2019 - JUNE 23, 2019

detail of since you were born by evan roth

© Evan Roth, Since You Were Born (detail), 2019. Site-specific installation at MOCA Jacksonville. Image courtesy of Doug Eng.

a view from above of the exhibit

© Evan Roth, Since You Were Born (detail), 2019. Site-specific installation at MOCA Jacksonville. Image courtesy of Jeremy Paterno.

ground view of the exhibition

© Evan Roth, Since You Were Born (detail), 2019. Site-specific installation at MOCA Jacksonville. Image courtesy of Doug Eng.

vinyl print of self portrait

© EVAN ROTH, Self Portrait: July 17, 2012, 2013. Vinyl print, 4 feet 9 inches x 42 feet 6 inches. Image courtesy of Max Schreier.

kites and websites by evan roth

© EVAN ROTH, Kites & Websites, 2016. Inkjet print on canvas, high aspect sailcloth, wrapped carbon tubing, antenna wire, kite line and networked located videos, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of Belenius/Nordenhake.

self portrait vinyl print

© EVAN ROTH, Self Portrait: 3/2013 – 6/2013, 2013. Vinyl print, 4 feet 9 inches x 138 feet 6 inches. Image courtesy of Wesleyan University.

In Since You Were Born, Evan Roth presents an introspective view of his own internet browsing data to create a dynamic site-specific installation of saturated images that are both personal and universal. Filling the Atrium Gallery entirely, Roth's internet cache captures four months of search history from the day his second daughter was born on June 29, 2016. Faces of “friends” from social media exist alongside corporate logos, fragments of Google maps, family photographs, and banner advertisements -lost narratives left behind in Roth's interactions online. Engulfing the viewer, the uncensored stream of images present memories that were never intended to be saved, archiving the seemingly incidental into something more permanent. In this way, Since You Were Born presents an alternate form of art-making, memory-making, and storytelling in our ever-more technologically obsessed world.

ARTIST

headshot of Evan Roth

EVAN ROTH

Evan Roth is an artist based in Berlin whose practice visualizes and archives typically unseen aspects of rapidly changing communication technologies. Through a range of media from sculpture to websites, the work addresses the personal and cultural effects surrounding these changes and the role of individual agency within the media landscape. Roth's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Biennale of Sydney, the Tate, and the Whitechapel Gallery; his work is also included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.