Art not ads right in your browser
Lots of lovely stuff happening out there at the moment. Clicking a few links on the internets today turned up all this booty.
The New York Times reports that Steve Lambert, a “conceptual artist” (tee hee!) from the Anti-Advertising Agency, has created AddArt, a small piece of software for the Mozilla Firefox browser that replaces adverts with art imagery. (Via Stay Free Magazine.)
The Anti-Advertising Agency blog has a wonderful story, complete with photos, of fly-posters being arrested for placing Microsoft adverts illegally around Los Angeles. It’s good to see they also mention the Pixelator and David Lynch’s opinion of product-placement in films.
The Anti-Advertising Agency collaborates with the Samara Project, which aims to “call into question the purpose and effects of advertising in public space.”
Stay Free also has an article on “ad creep”, the pernicious race to cover all available surfaces with advertising.