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Art > Ads


Artist Robert Montgomery


Add Art: Art replaces ads photo
Steve Lambert created a program along with Eyebeam and Rhizome to replace online advertising with art works, more.

Although I cannot attest to the quality or type of art shown in this work, I would worry about issues of quality lost in scaleability and setting of works, (small thumbnails) and how different seeing ads for one item, like soap, banking, or cars, is compared to seeing a different luxury item, (art). It is definitely an improvement, but still an ad in a sense. This is why I opted for the adblockplusk, to simply delete ads.




Felix Gonzalez-Torres, image from here


I am really impressed by these billboard photo pieces by Torres. The beautiful, mute, black and white photos are always displayed with no information provided. This practice puts aesthetic imagery with no marketable qualities into a public sphere in a very nice, subtle manner. 


Arrow Sign in Los Angeles photo
more by Steve Lambert.

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