"Release early, often, and with rap music."
Me:
Evan Roth, aka fi5e
Contact:
fi5e [at] ni9e.com
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"Release early, often, and with rap music." Me: Contact: fi5e [at] ni9e.com |
Evan Roth is a maker of things with a specific interest in tools of empowerment, open source, and popular culture. Roth graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in architecture. After working as an autocad monkey for a year in DC and another two in LA he returned to the east coast to attend the Parsons Design + Technology MFA program where he was awarded a 5' plastic trophy for graduating as valedictorian. During this time he developed Typographic Illustration, Explicit Content Only, Graffiti Taxonomy and his thesis project, Graffiti Analysis.
After Parsons, Evan spent two years experimenting in creative open source R&D at the Eyebeam OpenLab where he created a slew of projects and co-founded the Graffiti Research Lab. Currently Roth is teaching MFA courses at Parsons ranging from visual programming to internet fame to geek graffiti (a course labeled "an invitation to break the law" by city council memeber Peter Vallone Jr.), and is in the process of co-founding F.A.T. (Free Art & Technology), Brooklyn's first and only R&D lab for the public domain. Roth's projects have recently shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Moma, the Tate, the New Museum, and on BET. Evan's work has been published in the New York Times, Time magazine, Rolling Sone, and Esquire, and is the number one return for the google search "bad ass mother fucker". Evan lives in Hong Kong with his wife and enjoys spending his free time violating laws related to copyright and vandalism. Current and past work is archived at ni9e.com. Links: - Project archive: ni9e.com - blog: blog.ni9e.com - GRL: graffitiresearchlab.com - fffff.at posts: /author/evan - Double Happiness Posts: /?author=6 - Current photo archive: fffff.at/fuckflickr - graffiti photos: urban_data - del.icio.us links: fi5e - instructables: fi5e - youtube: ni9e25 - another youtube account: how2buyfamo - Vimeo: fi5e Ni9e History: Ni9e.com was first started in 2001 by myself and collaborator Max Asare. For the first couple years we were both posting work here and experimenting with writing code, editing video, and 3D rendering. Max is currently an architect living out west, and while he is designing soccer stadiums in exotic foreign cities I am still here playing around on the Internet. I have archived his work on the site below, personal favorites include Metro, Typocactive, and Dook. For a 45 second overview of these first two collaborative years of ni9e click here.
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