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Portable Sound Units at Conflux 2006

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Sara Dierck and Steve Lambert installed AAA Portable Sound Units around the Conflux Festival in Brooklyn in September of 2006.

Portable Sound Unit 4th and Metropolitan

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AAA at Conflux 2006

Conflux . Sept 14–17 . Brooklyn, NYC Steve Lambert and Sara Dierck, will be presenting the Anti-Advertising Agency‘s portable sound unit project at Conflux 2006. The sound units will be installed in various locations around Brooklyn and Lambert and Dierck will give a talk on Sept. 15, 2006 between 3pm and 5pm at McCaig-Welles Gallery, Conflux HQ. If you’ll be around get in touch or say hello at the festival.

Conflux is the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets. At Conflux, the city becomes a playground, a nomadic laboratory and a space for the development of creative communities.

Currently in its third year, Conflux will take place September 14 – 17th in Brooklyn. Over 80 artists from across the US and countries including Canada, UK, Spain, Germany, Finland, Sweden and Australia will come to Williamsburg to present projects including experimental walking, biking, boat and public-transport tours; street games and tech workshops; mobile broadcasts, performances and temporary installations.

Conflux headquarters:
McCaig-Welles Gallery 129 Roebling Street, Williamsburg open 10am – 7pm.

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Ads on Barf Bags

Here at the Agency one of the things we keep tabs on is ad creep. Each year, ads creep further into our daily lives through public space, classrooms, bathrooms, and so on. Over time advertisers become more and more desperate to get our attention because their traditional methods don’t work, or don’t work well enough – for a variety of reasons – and the line of what is deemed acceptable space for advertising slowly moves.

In 2003, advertising on airplane tray tables was an outrageous news item. In 2006, the ads are creeping further. Recently US Airways announced it will be selling advertising space on it’s barf bags. (See the story below.)

On a related note, this week CBS announced it will be laser etching advertising on egg shells. Read More »

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Living Billboards

Living BillboardsThe Sacramento Bee has written a relatively fluffy piece on what are becoming known as “Human Billboards” or “Living Arrows”. These are the people at intersections paid to frantically wave signs around attracting attention to a mattress sale or condo development. As the Bee itself says:

“It’s a way for developers and business owners to get around regulations governing permanent and temporary signs — and it simply works.”

The Sacremento Bee requires a login to view the article. We recommend getting one from Bug Me Not instead.

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Steve Lambert at Versionfest 06

April 30th 1pm

Version Fest 06AAA founder, Steve Lambert, has been invited to speak about the Anti-Advertising Agency and other projects at Version Fest 06 in Chicago this year. Steve will be speaking at the Free University Program: Version Conference at the Version Kunsthalle.

April 30th 1pm
Version Kunsthalle Iron Studios
3636 S Iron St 4th floor
Chicago IL

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New Site

You’ll notice we’ve updated the AAA site as of late.  We now have more news, more documentation and images of AAA work, RSS feeds to keep you updated, and comment forms for vistors to leave feedback.

This home page will include the latest information on AAA projects, as well as relevant items we find in the news or receieve from visitors.  Enjoy!

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Article in Columbus Dispatch

Columbus Dispatch StoryThe Columbus Dispatch has a story on how ads are making their way into more and more public spaces in Ohio. The revitalization of the downtown has brought larger and more invasive displays of advertising – for example ads printed on parking lot stripes. The last paragraphs of the story include some comments from the AAA’s Steve Lambert.

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Packard Jennings at Catharine Clark

Bus Tour Saturday April 29, 11:30-4

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Packard Jennings’ show at Catharine Clark Gallery opens on March 30th, with a reception on April 6th. The show includes two projects, one of which is his Bus Stop Bench project, done with the Anti-Advertising Agency.

Bus Tour Saturday April 29, 11:30-4 Packard Jennings Bus Stop Benches. $40 ticket includes guided tour with the artists on the Mexican Bus and lunch! RSVP by April 15th. Only 35 seats available! Sign up at Catharine Clark Gallery or call (415) 399-1439.

Catharine Clark Gallery
49 Geary St. Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108

Note: Packard asks that visitors bring postage paid business reply envelopes from inside their junk mail to the gallery and drop them in the supplied receptacle.

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Neterotopia

We just received a notice about this exhibition…

Neterotopia is an event that takes place from 16th to 31st March 2006 in various spaces on the Net. Eleven artists from different countries have been invited to choose an Internet site and use the spaces usually reserved for advertising. These spaces are thus transformed into exhibition surfaces and points of access to a pathway branching through the public and virtual space of the Internet, the major node of which is the neterotopia.net website.

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From the New York Times

“I take five A.P. classes, and by far I do the most work for these newspaper stories,” said Allie O’Hora, another reporter. And what stories! Allie tracked down a sophomore boy who covered the bathrooms with graffiti, and turned her exclusive interview into another front-pager. (“It’s our community too,” the boy told her, “and we should have just as much say as to what goes on the walls as Pepsi and Gatorade do.”) link

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StopDrugAds.org

Commercial Alert has launched a new site: StopDrugAds.org.

The purpose of the website is to educate the public about the dangers of prescription drug ads, and to mobilize thousands of Americans to voice their opposition to the ads.

Drug executives are not qualified to tell you what drugs to buy. They should not be allowed to meddle in your personal health care decisions. After all, they don’t even know you. It’s like practicing medicine without a license.

Please take a minute to visit StopDrugAds.org, and send comments to the FDA. Tell them to end prescription drug advertising in the United States.

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