Public Ad Campaign

Jordan Seiler
The New York City project Public Ad Campaign, recently featured in the New York Times, adheres to the following belief:

"...public space and the public's interaction with that space is a vital component of our city's health. By visually altering and physically interacting with the public environment, residents become psychologically invested in their community... Outdoor advertising is the primary obstacle to open public communications. By commodifying public space, outdoor advertising has monopolized the surfaces that shape our shared space."

The resulting actions, primarily the work of Jordan Seiler, are chronicled at www.publicadcampaign.com along side the work of other artists doing similarly subversive public installations.


OX, France


Sam 3, Spain

Eric Steen

Here are some links to blogs Eric Steen contributes to. He was one of the visiting artists who gave lectures at Ox-Bow over this past summer about micro-utopias and radical education. I plan on fleshing out this post more later, but I wanted to get some of his information up on this blog.

psuart.blogspot.com

(his work in teaching in Portland)

http://ericmsteen.blogspot.com/

(his personal blog with information on his beer/conversant pieces)

Jeremy Boyle

Man/boy art = gooood. Plus a good clean formal eye. He does mostly sound and video installations. Lots of clips on his website

piece consists of a concrete bench cast hollow, with its internal cavity serving as a sealed sub-woofer speaker enclosure. A recording of nearly sub-audible sound is played through this bench and is not experienced until someone is seated and feels the vibrations of the sound. The bench is designed to be typical of a public concrete bench, the only difference being its shape of a cube meant for one rather than rectangular for the possibility of multiple simultaneous users. This creates a situation where the user necessarily has a private experience with the piece, placing a shift in the function of the public bench and allowing for a private experience to take place within a public setting (without removing the person from their public position and function.



midi-controlled pneumatic guitar and drum kit