Evan Roth
For six months, Evan Roth returns to the speed of the early web, on the website rather than in the feed.
01 November 2026 – 30 April 2027
About the residency
After a decade devoted to slowness, in method as much as in medium, Evan Roth turns back toward speed. For six months, Roth sets aside long research in favour of work made at the pace the internet itself runs on: quick, playful and immediate, in the spirit of early net experiments, when making something and putting it online were one and the same gesture.
One or two new works will appear each month. Each lives on the open web, on pages the artist controls, and is gathered here as it is released, so the residency unfolds in public, in real time. As the platforms tighten their grip of algorithmic control and surveillance, this is also a quiet act of return: to the website as self-determined infrastructure, and to the place where, for panke.gallery, net art has always happened.
The residency closes in spring 2027 with an artist talk and a pop-up presentation at panke.gallery.
About the artist
Evan Roth (born 1978 in Okemos, Michigan) is an artist whose practice has moved, across two decades, between two tempos. The first was fast and playful. Roth co-founded the Graffiti Research Lab in 2005 and the Free Art and Technology Lab (FAT Lab) in 2007, and made internet projects such as Multi-touch and One-Gif Compositions with the immediacy of the early web. The second has been slow in method and medium, in works such as Landscapes, Strands and Heliographs, and most recently in the solo exhibition A Hundred Thousand Years of Light at Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin (2026). Recent online works include Broken Link Search, Ten Minutes on Instagram and Screen Sampler.