Evan Roth’s Multi-Touch Finger Paintings caught my interest because they are the opposite of what I expect: instead of integrating technology into art and making it a key point or focus, technology is used but is not displayed in the final result or piece. The concept and process interest me, but I’m not too sure how keen I am on the actual pieces. I’m most drawn to the simple or organized ones. “Slide to un-lock” and “12,345 + 6,789 = ” both have a legibility to
them where a display or detailed explanation is not necessary. Their titles are simple and the motions/patterns that the paint depicts fit well with them. I feel as though the pieces “Launch Twitter. Check Twitter. Close Twitter” and “Launch Mail. Read Mail. Close Mail,” give too much information in their titles and the paintings are convoluted. It gives away too much. “Slide to unlock” is reminiscent of a smart phone, however the paint marks are simple enough to a point of still being make-able without the hardware. Similarly “12,345 + 6,789 =” depicts a pattern of buttons pressed on a calculator, a universal tool. I guess I’m more attracted to those that could be ambiguous.

“Slide to un-lock” is seen below