Funky Forest was featured in the latest issue of Items magazine in a piece titled “Interfaces of the Third Kind”.



Zach and I were invited to show Card Play ( a new installation we have been working on ) as part of Flux’s ‘Super 8‘ show at the Scion Space in Culver City LA.

Check our hysterical interview on NBC here:
This is one of two things I was up to in LA this summer.
Finishing up the software for the Eyewriter project.
More about it soon – read about the project here: http://fffff.at/eyewriter/
Here is the latest video of our progress:
SE2 EP4 – Eyewriter Tempt LA from Evan Roth on Vimeo.


The openFrameworks library which I develop (with Zach and Arturo) and use for my own work is featured in the excellent new O’Reilly book ‘Programming Interactivity‘ written by Joshua Noble.
Quote: “With Programming Interactivity, you’ll explore cutting-edge techniques for interaction design, and get the background and technical information you need to design, program, build, and troubleshoot your own projects. This book explains programming and electrical engineering basics, and introduces three freely available tools created specifically for artists and designers: Processing, Arduino, and OpenFrameworks.”
It comes out July 2009 so be sure to grab the first printed book on openFrameworks.
In other news a Japanese book dedicated to openFrameworks is also in the works!
Emily and I just finished a permanent installation of Funky Forest for Moomah, an art center and cafe for parents and their children, based in Tribeca, NYC.
Check out the project on my project page here:
http://theowatson.com/site_docs/work.php?id=45
For information on Funky Forest @ Moomah check the Moomah website:
http://www.moomah.com/exhibitions/

L.A.S.E.R Tag was part of MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind show in New York. It is also featured in the excellent book of the show which covers a wide range of innovative projects that are using new approaches to push the fields of art and design.
It was also recently added to the permanent collection of MoMA and continues to be on display at the museum.



