The Conflux Festival is accepting submissions for 2008.
Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment.
People from a wide [...]
I remember seeing KAWS work in San Francisco when I was temping in downtown office buildings. It was a black and white ad for something in a Market Street kiosk and there was a green, multi headed snake attacking the model in the photo. I remember studying it trying to figure out if it [...]
How valuable is our public space to advertisers and marketers? An anonymous agent of the Anti-Advertising Agency made some calls. How much does it currently costs to have street level ads in a city like San Francisco? Here’s some examples.
Market Street Kiosks. Background: Three sided containing four by six foot poster advertisements. [...]
From AAA pal, Eliot Van Buskirk at Listening Post:
Approximately two weeks after we reported on TuneBoom Pro, a tool apparently used by major labels and indie artists to artificially inflate the number of times their songs had been streamed on MySpace, the site has gone offline. We had contacted MySpace about TuneBoom Pro, but it’s [...]
Excerpts of the Graffiti Research Lab - The Complete First Season on BoingBoingTV:
This five minute excerpt has ads, but you can get the whole DVD - with no ads - as a torrent - start here.
Not sure? Here’s a well written review of the movie from Kevin Flanagan of the P2P Foundation:
My [...]
Scrappy artists, students, and regular folk open wallets to reach out to ad pros
CHICAGO—Only 2 weeks after the Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom announced its new giving campaign, donations have come in from all over the country, raising the pot offered to one lucky creative to $670—and she or he will still receive a giant [...]
Found in the bottom of my inbox; this story from WFTV in Florida. Read all the way through to see my favorite part…
Business Owners, Customers Upset Over Controversial Billboard
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — It looked harmless enough, but the words on a billboard unnerved so many people that a popular restaurant nearby actually lost business. [...]
Anti-Advertising Agency associates, the Graffiti Research Lab (who worked on the AAA Light Criticism project) will be at the MoMA in nyc on Sunday. I’ll be on an all-star panel with them and other fine folks after the screening. See you there…
G.R.L. The Complee7 First [...]
In the buildup to the undoubtedly massively successful “Non-Motivational Speakers” series at Happy Endings on Thursday, Gelf Magazine has published interviews with Alan Abel, Ron English, and me.
Here’s a small excerpt:
GM: In utopia, what does the advertising look like?
SL: I mean, do we need it? If a good product exists, we’ll know about [...]
Contact: Anne Elizabeth Moore – aem at anneelizabethmoore.com Steve Lambert – steve at antiadvertisingagency.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 17, 2008
ANNOUNCING THE 2008 ANTI-ADVERTISING AGENCY FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM AWARD
Fund Offers One Lucky Ad Industry Creative Freedom, Giant Check
CHICAGO—The most creative and forward-thinking professionals of our time work in marketing. The Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom wants them to [...]
I stopped in to NPR’s Bryant Park Project this morning to talk about our “You Don’t Need It” stickers. You can listen to the segment through a stream on NPR’s site.
Come see the the Graffiti Research Lab’s DVD which draws sordid connections between the Graffiti Research Lab and the Anti-Advertising Agency. The back story of the AAA/GRL collaboration, Light Criticism, will be exposed, as well as an inside view of the Aqua Teen Boston Terror Meltdown of 2007 you’ll never see elsewhere!
Anti-Advertising Agency cohorts, [...]
Apparently AAA contributor Anne Elizabeth Moore’s book, Unmarketable, is on Pamela Anderson’s summer reading list. Still waiting for word from Oprah’s Book Club. (fingers tightly crossed!)
via wwtdd
I’ll be giving a short talk for part of Gelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker series. If you haven’t seen Abel Raises Cain, it’s great. And Ron English you’ve probably seen already. From Gelf’s site:
Culture jammers and pranksters will be this month’s topic. Featured speakers are Alan Abel, perhaps the most infamous prankster in American prank [...]
