A conversation with Evan Roth and Andreas Müller
Filmed at FITC Toronto 2007
The Design & Technology Festival
More info at fitc.ca
Evan Roth
Evan Roth is a maker of things with a specific interest in tools of empowerment, open source, and popular culture. Currently Roth is teaching MFA courses at Parsons ranging from visual programming to internet fame to geek graffiti , 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 work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival, the MOMA, and on BET, and shows up as the number one search result on Google for the search term, bad ass mother fucker
Evan lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend and cat and enjoys spending his free time violating laws related to copyright and vandalism. Current and past work is archived at ni9e.com.
Andreas Müller
Rich Media Director at Hi-ReS! for a number of years before founding Nanika together with Hi-ReS! founder Florian Schmitt.
Apart from his contributions to various award winning projects while at Hi-ReS!, in 2005 he was awarded the Tokyo Type Directors Club Grand Prix for his piece “For All Seasons”, the first and so far only interactive piece to receive the Grand Prix.
In 2007 “Wind” and “SwimmingMessageSystem” were selected by Wired magazine to go on display at the yearly Wired NextFest festival and Nanika has just finished doing interactive and video visuals for the Diesel Spring/Summer 09 collection fashion show in New York.