Steve Lambert

Light Criticism was mentioned in a ModArt Magazine, along with the GRL, Jason Eppink, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The story is called “Windows and Wallpapering: Questions about Art, Technology and Poetic Interference” by Elizabeth Haines and you can read most of it at the F@ Lab site.

Jan 19, 2008 - Mar 1, 2008 - Packard Jennings show at Catharine Clark Gallery. The show will include prints from Steve Lambert and Packard Jennings collaborative project, “Wish You Were Here: Postcards From Our Awesome Future.”

Opening Reception: Saturday January 19th at 2pm.

I will be attending the opening –Steve

Catharine Clark Gallery
150 Minna Street
Ground Floor between 3rd and New Montgomery
San Francisco, California
Entrances at 150 Minna and 657 Mission Tuesday-Friday
Enter at Minna on Saturdays
Phone: 415.399.1439

Light Criticism was mentioned in a ModArt Magazine, along with the GRL, Jason Eppink, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The story is called “Windows and Wallpapering: Questions about Art, Technology and Poetic Interference” by Elizabeth Haines and you can read most of it at the F@ Lab site.

Opening 1/12/08 For You, For Me, From Me at the Flux Space in Philadelphia. Including recent drawings with Julia Schwadron.

Benjamin Kingsley, Steve Lambert and Julia Schwadron, and Zachar Vachs. Curated by Dustin Metz.

Opens January 7th 2008, reception January 12th 6pm-8pm, closes February 1.
3000 N. Hope Street
Philadelphia, PA 19133

review of the show from Funnel Pages

I’ve made an edition of prints using drawings from the “Wish You Were Here: Postcards From Our Awesome Future” posters. The prints use details from the posters; the Transamerica building and the SF MUNI Aerial Tramway. They are in an edition of 10 and use an archival giclée process. I’ve been working on this over the past few weeks and I can say without hesitation that they look great and exactly as I hoped.

If you’re hoping for prints of the whole poster designs, hang tight. We’re working on prints of the posters and they will be available as soon as possible. While in the past the opportunity to buy my work only presented itself every couple years, this year will be different. Packard Jennings also has an upcoming show at Catherine Clark Gallery which will include our drawings from this series. Details on this will be announced on the email list, not to worry. Requests? Questions? Just ask.

“What about desktop wallpapers of the Transamerica print?” I have that.

The Eyebeam Labs are looking for interns. Personally, I am looking for some interns experienced with video, OR web, OR general research who are also interested in the themes I work in. Know anyone? The official call is below. Contact me at eyebeam - slambert@eyebeam.org

Video Intern Steve Lambert (http://visitsteve.com) and the Anti-Advertising Agency (http://antiadvertisingagency.com) are creating a series of editorial documentary shorts on advertising, marketing and public space. Would you like to hone your motion graphics, design, and animation skills? Develop your talent for representing abstract ideas visually? Would you like to do so without working on mindless projects for the commercial world? Submit a resume, letter of interest, via email or mail and video work samples via url.

Research Intern The Anti-Advertising Agency (http://antiadvertisingagency.com) is looking for research interns interested in collecting information on advertising, marketing, and public space. Past interns have had the opportunity to create editorial content for the Anti-Advertising Agency site. Students or recent graduates of writing or media studies programs welcome. Experience with wordpress, wikis, and image editing a plus. Submit a resume, letter of interest, via email or mail

Podcast Intern Eyebeam is looking for a talented videographer for an exciting and rewarding experience creating a bi-weekly video podcast documenting the various projects being developed at Eyebeam. Responsibilities may include: sitting in on brainstorming sessions twice a month, shooting video or screen captures of artists work, pulling footage from the extensive Eyebeam video archive to include in the podcast, editing the video using Final Cut Pro.

This position has the potential for creative freedom and development for the right person. Great for someone looking to develop a reel working on what promises to be widely viewed podcast in the arts and tech community.

Experience in media or journalism a plus.

Web Design & Development Interns We are looking for several web design and development interns who have experience ranging from some CSS, to PHP coding. We will be working as a group to help give you the skillz that are relevant so you can help make the great projects that come out of our labs. We will be focusing a fair amount on Wordpress and Drupal (administering, themeing, customizing and building modules) in order to create sites that document projects fluidly, as well as help build online communities around several of eyebeam’s initiatives. You will be working primarily with Jeff Crouse, Steve Lambert, Michael Mandiberg, Addie Wagenknecht, Jessica Banks, and Zach Lieberman. Submit a resume, letter of interest, and one to three URLs via email.

Next week I am flying to Spain to participate in NOW Meetings in the Present Continuous at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. I’ll be on panel with Richard Sennett (via videoconference) and Pierre Humeau and our event is on Friday November 30th, 2007. If you know anyone in Barcelona, send them my way.

Update: here’s a photo from the talk. I also posted the talk and some links as a swf file on the Anti-Advertising Agency site.

In late August the Estonian national newspaper, Ekspress, published an interview with me about advertising and public space. Merit Karise, the interviewer, has supplied an English version below.

As a result of this interview Merit was invited to give a “presentation about alcohol advertising and youth at a roundtable that took place in our Parliament on Oct 9th, and where MPs, the representative of our President and rep. of Chancellor of Justice took part.” Since then there has been talk about bringing her to the Economic Affairs Committee of Parliament where legal changes in alcohol advertising regulation can be made.

By the way, the article references my work as/with the Anti-Advertising Agency, and an interview I did with Rob Walker for Murketing’s Q&A section.

Interview for Estonian Ekspress, August 30, 2007 (Merit Karise, teacher of advertising and advertising critique at Tartu Art School)

You don’t paint on canvas and you don’t show two flickering TV screens facing each other in an empty gallery. Your gallery is the public space of cities and often you don’t give any sign to your viewer that it is art that she/he is seeing. Why is that?

I think there’s 2 reasons for that.

One, is that the white cube and “modern art” don’t come naturally to me. I grew up in my parents furniture shop and worked in garages though my teens and twenties. When I started art school, I had never been to a contemporary art museum. My creative background was punk rock, film and radio. When I made art, I wanted the people I knew to understand it - the people who worked with me in the motorcycle shop, or the friends and family I had. These were working class people more than “cultural class” people. I realize now that I walk in both worlds, but at the time I got started I was very much in the former. When I finally started going to museums, a lot of the work I just didn’t understand and it didn’t speak to me. Read on…

Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert asked architects, city planners, and transportation engineers, “what would you do if you didn’t have to worry about budgets, beauracracy, politics, or physics?” Ideas from these conversations were then merged, developed, and perhaps mildly exaggerated by Steve and Packard to create a series of 6 posters for the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Art on Market Street Program.

The edition of 24 posters can be seen between November 12, 2007 to March 14, 2008 on nearly every block of Market Street from the Embarcadero to the Castro.

Update: poster images have been uploaded.

In July a television producer, Hiroshi Noguchi, came to the OpenLab and documented some of the projects we were working on for a public television program in Japan called “NY Streets.” The segment included a piece on AddArt and the drawings I was doing at the time with Julia Schwadron. I’m not allowed to post the video, so I grabbed some stills.

I was hoping my voice would be overdubbed and looking forward to hearing the Japanese version of me, but instead I was subtitled. Oh well.