D.A.T.A. 44.0

DATA is ded­ic­ated to both show­cas­ing the work of tech­no­lo­gists, musi­cians, and artists using tech­no­logy as well as provid­ing a meet­ing point for the inter­sec­tion of these disciplines.

Our aim is to encour­age col­lab­or­a­tion between group and non/group mem­bers and sup­port an open forum for ideas, prac­tice, and present­a­tion.

Presenters: Evan Roth, Constant Dillard, Benjamin Pothier

Evan Roth is an artist and researcher based in Paris whose work explores the inter­sec­tion of free cul­ture and pop­u­lar cul­ture. His not­able pro­jects include L.A.S.E.R. Tag and LED Throw­ies (Graf­fiti Research Lab), White Glove Track­ing, Eye­Writer, Graf­fiti Ana­lysis and a col­lab­or­a­tion with Jay-Z on the first open source rap video. Roth’s work is in the per­man­ent col­lec­tion of the MoMA (NYC) and has been exhib­ited widely in the Amer­icas, Europe and Asia, includ­ing the Pomp­idou (Paris), the Kun­sthalle (Vienna), the Tate (Lon­don), the Fond­a­tion Cartier (Paris) and the front page of You­tube. Roth has received numer­ous awards for his work, includ­ing the Golden Nica from Prix Ars Elec­tron­ica, Rhizome/The New Museum com­mis­sions (2007, 2009), the Future Everything Award and Brit Insur­ance Designs of the Year (1, 2).

Roth is 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 addi­tion, at the Par­sons School of Design, he has developed and con­tin­ues to teach courses on viral media for artists, where grades depend on Inter­net atten­tion met­rics, and urban hack­ing, a course a New York City coun­cil­man has declared “an invit­a­tion to break the law.” Roth and his work have been fea­tured in mul­tiple out­lets, includ­ing NPR, the New York Times (1, 2, 3), Lib­er­a­tion, Time magazine (1, 2, 3), CNN, the Guard­ian, ABC News, and Esquire.

evan-roth.com

Con­stant Dul­laart (the Neth­er­lands, 1979) has just fin­ished his res­id­ency at the Rijk­sakademie in Ams­ter­dam, with a prac­tice focus­ing on con­tem­por­ary image lan­guage at it’s dirti­est. Trained as a video artist, his work has recently focussed on the Inter­net and re-contextualizing found mater­ial. His works are widely dis­cussed online, and exhib­ited in museums and insti­tu­tions inter­na­tion­ally. Brian Droit­cour writes for Art in Amer­ica magazine:

“Dullaart’s readymades, how­ever, demon­strate his interest in what might be called ‘default’ style — the bland tables of sans serif text and soul­less stock pho­to­graphy that frame ads for some of the most com­mon search terms (auto insur­ance, cheap air­line tick­ets, por­no­graphy), bar­ing the under­belly of the Internet’s pop­u­lar use. But Dullaart’s readymades are more than a form­al­ist explor­a­tion of the Inter­net at its most banal. They are also a study in the rela­tion­ship of the index to its ref­er­ent, an issue that Ros­alind Krauss con­nec­ted to the readymade in her 1976 essay ‘Notes on the Index, Part 1.’ Krauss defines indices as ‘the traces of a par­tic­u­lar cause, and that cause is the thing to which they refer, the object they sig­nify.’ .… Dul­laart is a per­sist­ent invest­ig­ator of new modes of con­struct­ing and relat­ing mean­ing brought about by the Inter­net.” Dul­laart lives / works in Ber­lin and Amsterdam.

constantdullaart.com

Ben­jamin Poth­ier is an Artist and a Dir­ector He is a found­ing mem­ber of the artists col­lect­ive Cellule0038753K, one of the first french VJ crew and Inter­act­ive Install­a­tion & films pro­du­cers and directors.Their films (doc­u­ment­ar­ies, music video, video art) have been shown in vari­ous inter­na­tional fest­ivals includ­ing a ten years ret­ro­spect­ive of Cellule0038753K at NEMO Fest­ival 2004 (Paris).

Ben­jamin has stud­ied Print (etch­ing, silk­print), Video and Cinema at the Insti­tut of Visual Arts (Orleans) where he received a Mas­ter in Art magna cum Laude for the social implic­a­tions of his work.

He also has stud­ied Arts, Cho­reo­graphy, Sceno­graphy and Con­tem­por­ary Dance with Joseph Nadj at the National Cho­reo­graphic Cen­ter of Orleans. With Iwana Masaki and Moeno Wakamatsu at Boris Vian Found­a­tion (Paris). And with Hino Akira Senseï , amongst other Artists, per­formers and teachers.

As a Dir­ector he has worked for Insti­tu­tions, Music labels and inter­na­tional Events includ­ing Nyon Film Fest­ival “Vis­ions du Réel” and the LIFT Conference.

He is cur­rently work­ing on the open-source ori­ented inter­act­ive doc­u­ment­ary install­a­tion MAIITSOH, res­ult of a ten year research includ­ing exclus­ive inter­views of Wil­liam Gib­son, Noam Chom­sky and Jeremy Narby amongst other artists, sci­ent­ists and philosophers.

When not work­ing on the MAIITSOH pro­ject, Ben­jamin cook veget­arian sushis, med­it­ate and built sculp­tures with street found materials.

benipi.com