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Steve Lambert at New Museum Thu. May 22

As part of the release of Add-Art, I will be on a panel with other Rhizome Commission winners, Evan Roth (of Graffiti Research Lab) and Ben Engebreth, eteam, and Rafael Rozendaal. Add-Art is the web browser plugin that replaces advertising on the web with art from a curated database. I have been working on with […]

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Conflux Festival Accepting Submissions

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 […]

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Classic KAWS Footage From 1997

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 was […]

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GRL at MoMA on Sunday

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 Season (Trailer) from fi5e on Vimeo. GRL: The Complete […]

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G.R.L. Screening at MoMA – May 4th

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, […]

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Steve Lambert with Alan Abel and Ron English

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 […]

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Advertising Scofflaw Assaults NYT Reporter

From the New York Times’ David W. Dunlap, dated March 27, 2008: The takeover of public space for commercial promotion may be offensive, but it is usually legal. Occasionally, however, it is not. On Friday, March 14, it bordered on the criminal. That’s where I come in. I was the victim. As a Times reporter, […]

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Playing Catch Up

It’s been quiet here for a while. I’ve been busy these past few weeks on a side project for Conflux. But more than that, a big new project with Packard Jennings (see Bus Stop Ad Project) has been taking up most of my time. It’s finally done and will be installed on Market Street in […]

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NY Dept. of Buildings Strikes Back!

After years of insufficient fines and lax enforcement, the Department of Buildings (under public pressure) has begun to do their jobs. And they’re having an impact. Since earlier this year there’s been a noticeable decrease in illegal banner ads on constructions sheds and scaffolding. Now, The New York Department of Buildings is going into “phase […]

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AddArt in NY Times

AddArt, a browser plugin I’m developing at Eyebeam was written about in the New York Times today. AddArt is an extension for the Firefox browser which removes advertising and replaces it with art. The project is being developed and I’m looking for funding to pay coders as well as provide stipends to artists and curators. […]

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Free Shopdropping Workshop at Eyebeam NYC

Shopdropping Workshop with The Anti-Advertising Agency Feb. 10, 2007 12-6pm Eyebeam – 540 W. 21st Street Just added, dates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Carolina – please contact us for details

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AMNY: Chase Caves on Illegal Sidewalk Ads

AM New York reports on more illegal advertising in New York (see also NY Press’ story on illegal scaffolding advertising). “The bank is promising the city it will turn off projectors at about two dozen branches that have been casting the company’s big blue logo onto sidewalks. The decision followed press inquiries about the advertisements, […]

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