Red Lines
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Red Lines was a peer-to-peer network performance that took place from September 10, 2018 to September 10, 2020. The network connected users with servers in geographically specific locations to participate in the sharing and viewing of 82 individual pieces from the Landscape series. Over the course of two years, 120,000 people in 166 countries connected to the Red Lines network, with the average viewing time for each person lasting over one hour.
Although the peer-to-peer aspect of the project has come to a close, you can append ‘/redlines’ to the end of the URL of any individual Landscape piece (e.g. https://s36.787854e174.775050.co.nz/redlines) and enter an archived simulation of the 20-hour looping Red Lines cycle.
Red Lines is commissioned and produced by Artangel. The project is generously supported by Creative Capital.
Exhibited
- Culturgest, Red Lines with Landscapes: Portugal, Porto, Portugal, 2020
- Culturgest, Red Lines with Landscapes: Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal, 2020
- Yuz Museum, Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa, Shanghai, China, 2020
- Chronus Art Center, WE=LINK:十个小品 Ten Easy Pieces, online, 2020
- The Collection Lincoln & Usher Gallery, Red Lines with Landscapes at The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK, 2019
- Noorderlicht House of Photography, IN VIVO tempo, Groningen, Netherlands, 2019
- Artangel (Pop-up at Viaduct Furniture), Red Lines Showroom, London, 2018
Press
- The Guardian, Finding the cloud under the sea: Chips with Everything podcast, 2018
- Hyperallergic, A Net Artist on Why the Cloud Is a Bad Metaphor for the Internet, 2018
- Financial Times, Internet art: Evan Roth’s 'Red Lines', 2018
- Creative Capital, A Work of Net Art That You Can Live With, 2018
- FAD Magazine, Artangel today launches Red Lines by pioneering new media artist Evan Roth, 2018
- Artlyst, Evan Roth Red Lines Winner Of Artangel’s International Open Call, 2018
- L'ADN, 20 000 lieues sous le Web, des millions de km de cables, 2019
Related Media
- https://redlines.network (project website)
- All pieces in series
- Artist talk, Photographer's Gallery lecture (video, 20mins)
- Artist talk, Retune Festival (audio and slides, 20 min)
- Artist talk, Chaos Computer Congress (video, 60 min)
Related Works
- Landscapes Series, Network located videos, 2016 - ongoing