Kites and Websites collects a selection of works by Evan Roth developed in the framework of the Internet Landscapes project, the artist’s ongoing investigation into the infrastructure of the internet. He has especially studied the global submarine fiber optic cable in many countries: from UK to New Zealand. Like a new romantic wanderer he has reached remote and hardly accessible locations, where he found himself alone in the wild nature. As the art critic Domenico Quaranta explains, the visual language adopted for the project is infrared photography, a conceptual reference to the architecture of the Internet. Roth also collects audio documentation through a device that scans radio frequencies at regular intervals, recording a mix of white noise and audio fragments. While the Internet Landscapes pictures have been printed on kites, the audio and video recordings have been used to build websites.
