Public Ad Campaign

VIA: Hyperallergic SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s Financial District isn’t the busiest part of town on the weekend. That’s doubly true in l...

VIA: Arizona Public Radio In this week’s installment of Poetry Friday, we bring back Elizabeth Hellstern, inventor of the Telepoem Booth, ...

 VIA: Art News Can a phone booth become an art space? That was the question artist Damián Ortega and Bree Zucker , director of New York’s Ku...

Open JCDecaux ads World Wide 2020 - Ouvrir Abris bus JCDecaux 2020 from Workshopping the visible on Vimeo .

VIA: Haertz With advertising coming to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, most of the billboards across Israel have turned into empt...

Without an audience to steal attention from, advertising goes dark.  VIA: The NY Times Blank billboards and canceled online ads sign...

VIA: The NY Times Alyssa MacKenzie, 32, rarely used her smartphone to make phone calls, apart from the occasional conversation for her w...

Why Open Public Space is Central to a Vibrant, Democratic Society and How the Corona Virus Threatens to Divide Us I just did an int...

I have been working on a project called Talk To Me which refurbishes old NYC payphones to become serendipitous points of communication bet...

#BushfireBrandalism from Partier Bresson on Vimeo . As a collective group of Australian artists, we have been driven to reclaim public...

Surveillance capitalism is a threat to democracy, free will, and just about everything you hold dear. If that sounds alarmist, take some tim...

VIA: The NY Times The debate on privacy and law at the Federal Trade Commission was unusually heated that day. Tech industry executiv...

Not anti-advertising, but in one of our favorite city locations. VIA: Creapills A little green, in the middle of a concrete city : it...

Very excited to find out about this type of stranger outreach happening in NYC. I know its not directly ad related but it is about finding m...

VIA: Hyperallergic DETROIT — One of the authenticating moves that anchored the 2005 movie Brick in the neo-noir genre was the omnipresen...

*When It Changed ...* is a three-part blog post written by David Reinfurt and Eric Li and edited by Meg Miller for Are.na around billboard l...

VIA: It's Nice That Wunder, an independent Canadian creative agency based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has taken out $10,000 worth o...

VIA: The NY Times First came product placement. In exchange for a payment, whether in cash, supplies or services, a TV show or a film wo...

I am not surprised. VIA: The NY Times When New York City announced in 2014 that a private company would replace pay phones with thou...

VIA: Citylab Atop most New York City taxis are advertising screens—flashing LEDs hawking Lion King tickets and beer and McDonald’s. Alon...

VIA: CityLab “I’m still flying at four thousand feet when I see it, that scarcely perceptible glow, as though the moon had rushed ahead ...

VIA: Hyperallergic “Advice to the Museum of Modern Art about BIG donors with BIG ties to Jeffery Epstein,” reads a poster that appeared o...

Huge thanks to the Maine Arts Journal for including my essay from the PublicAccess Zine in its entirety. As much as the PublicAccess Zine ...

VIA: Artnews A few months ago, I sliced off a tiny bit of my right index finger. I was talking on the phone and using a huge knife to cho...

Degrowth strategies say we should "limit advertising in public spaces to liberate people from the psychological pressure for needless ...

VIA: RBNSHT Follow the link below to see artists do ad takeover work by simply screen printing on the ads directly on the street. Now that...

A few months back I attended a Tea With Strangers in my research for the Talk To Me project and empathy machine that runs on old advertising...

A few years ago I went to Bien Urbain to do some workshops and install some artwork of my own. This festival is known for their support of ...

VIA: Gothamist The MTA's hectoring poster campaign aimed at combatting fare evasion is getting a radical makeover, thanks to an anon...

VIA: The New York Times Depending on your point of view, they are either miracles of modern marketing or a heinous eyesore on the city’s...

My colleague Bill Posters wrote an incredibly important essay outlining the main points of interest for the anti advertising, pro civic med...

The adage shouldn't be you are what you eat, or in this case, you are what you watch, but rather you are what you attend. It is a simple...

Our good friends at PM Press have put together an American version of thier best selling "Advertising Shits In Your Head" UK publ...

I have been posting a lot of articles on data privacy because it related directly to my interest in outdoor advertising and the influence i...

A few years ago I participated in  Bien Urbain  in Besancon France. After installing a bunch of pieces around town, I then held a workshop....

While I love the idea of reclaiming public space for the artwork and other civic media platforms, I have a hard time with projects like thi...

While I love this project and it's goals,  redirect ads are still redirect ads that dupe you into seeing content you weren't lookin...

As the tools of manipulation become more heavily driven by the data we create through our online, social, and physical interaction with the ...

VIA: The New York Times Imagine you are shopping in your favorite grocery store. As you approach the dairy aisle, you are sent a push n...

VIA: Gothamist The as-yet-unsinkable LED billboard barge that appeared off the coast of Manhattan last year —since earning near univer...

VIA:  The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks ago, Facebook declined to remove a doctored video in which the speaker of the House...

VIA: VOX EU Chloé Michel, Michelle Sovinsky, Eugenio Proto, Andrew Oswald 27 May 2019 Although the negative impact of conspicuous con...

Below is a wonderful essay by RJ Rushmore for Monument Lab. Im not sure how much RJ is aware of the writing of Jeff Ferrell but his sentimen...