Lamar Clarkson of ArtNews wrote a short piece on the The Great Internet Art WikiMarathon which happened on January 26, 2008.

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In one of the greatest Simpsons episodes ever—yes, I said it—the town of Springfield finds itself literally besieged by an army of advertising character-zombies. The marauders in “Attack of the 50-foot Eyesores” are but barely disguised caricatures of formerly ubiquitous ad mascots (the Big Boy from Bob’s Big Boy becomes “Lard Lad;” the Pep Boys, “Zip Boys”). As the walking, anthropomorphic product pitches close in, Lisa finally figures out that the way to defeat them is for the townsfolk to turn their backs on the monsters and refuse to look at them. Lard Lad, along with all of the other boardroom-created Frankensteins, ultimately suffocates from lack of attention.

Despite the scarcity of Bob’s Big Boy and Pep Boys in the modern retail landscape, it’d be wrong to dismiss this episode—a sketch in 1995’s installment of the annual “Treehouse of Horror” special—as dated. In place of the aforementioned icons, just insert a sassy, Cockney-accented reptile or a giant, yellow smiley face. We’ve failed to heed the parable of Lard Lad.

Steve Lambert is trying his damnedest to make us look away. A guerrilla artist and senior fellow at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, a cutting-edge art collective in Chelsea, Lambert is also the founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency, a group whose mission is to “co-opt the tools and structures used by the advertising and public relations industries…to call into question the purpose and effects of advertising in public space.”

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The segment was about the Anti-Advertising Agency “You Don’t Need It” sticker, which I did with Packard Jennings after our Bus Stop Bench project. The stickers were picked up by Gawker recently, then MSNBC, MakeZine, and a few other sites. It’s been a hectic week…

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Official Announcement: PopRally invites you to a screening of Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season, a film documenting the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their day jobs to develop high-tech tools for the art underground. Featuring insightful and humorous commentary by GRL founders James Powderly and Evan Roth, The Complete First Season argues for free speech in public, open source in pop culture, the hacker spirit in graffiti, and not asking permission in general. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the Graffiti Research Lab and surprise guests.

Stay for the party afterwards, featuring music by Javelin and a final chance to see MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition, which includes the work of the GRL.

• San Francisco (May 10, 8:30pm out-of-doors at 16th and Florida)
• San Jose
• Santa Cruz (May 14, downtown, with Grant Wilson & Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In)

Filmmakers/ artists: Danielle Adair: The Making of Americans Perry Bard: Status: Stolen Aya Ben Ron: Still under treatment Julia Bradshaw: Can Art be Humble? David Sanchez Burr: Unwound Francisca Caporali, Laura Chipey & Pilar Ortiz: The Urban Homesteading Project Ian Cheng: MoMa Audio Adventure club Robert Ladislas Derr: Labor Dubois/ Sifuentes: Fashionably late for the relationship Angela Ellsworth: Hot Air: Keep Yourself Alive Lisa Erdman: Annual Checkup: Pharmaceuticals for the 21st Century Allan & Michael Fleming: Vertical Tactics Dara Greenwald & Sarah Kanouse: What the Market Bares Sonja Hinrichsen: Oil Spill Cynthia Hooper: Bay Dredge Sarah Klein: The Bread Project Bryan Konefsky: You are Here Steve Lambert: Light Criticism Luci Liss, Misha Riley, Alex Torresz-Traver & Zoe Zimsky: That’s Hot! Lilly McElroy: The Square EE Miller & Samuael Topiary: Gum & Tea The Mission Media Archive: Untitled Kari Orvik: Mission Portrait Studio Julie Perini: I’ll ask for lunch in reverse order while you try to figure out if the waiter cares Monica Rodriguez: Para Ser Feliz Dina Ropele: Practice makes Perfect Second Front: 28 Avatars Later Pilvi Takala– Easy Rider Aislin Thomas: I Your Shoes: Exchanges II Nick Tobier: Small cascade for a large city Oakie Tradwell: Maggots and Men Amy Westpfahl: The informational cookie project Ayelet Zohar: Love it or Leave it

Inside the Artists Studio with James Chimpton is a radio program/robotic chimp developed at Eyebeam by Jeff Crouse and Steve Lambert (with Alexander Reben) for Neighborhood Public Radio’s “___ American Life” at the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

Culture jammers and pranksters will be this month’s topic. Featured speakers are Alan Abel, perhaps the most infamous prankster in American prank history, subject of the recent award-winning documentary, Abel Raises Cain, and “founder” of mock citizens’ groups The Society for the Indecency to Naked Animals and Citizens Against Breastfeeding; Steve Lambert, guerrilla artist, founder of The Anti-Advertising Agency, and Senior Fellow at cutting-edge arts organization Eyebeam NYC; and Ron English, patriarch of the agit-pop art movement, corporate branding subversive, and subject of the documentary “POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English.”

The event will start at 8 pm at the Happy Ending Lounge, and is free.

Event Details:

Happy Ending Lounge (official site, CitySearch, MySpace)
302 Broome St.
(between Forsyth and Eldridge)
212-334-9676
J/M/Z/F to Delancey
B/D to Grand Street
Look for the hot-pink awning with the words “Health Club” on it.

Doors open at 7:30.
Readings start at 8 sharp.
FREE!

Glowlab will be located in Booth # 6B, near the 11th Avenue entrance.

Bridge has exhibited emerging contemporary art in Chicago, London, and Miami, and now premiers its New York edition March 27–30, at the Waterfront building, 222 12th Avenue in Chelsea. Concurrent with New York’s celebrated Armory Show, Bridge New York will host more than 60 international exhibitors from such diverse locales as Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the United States.

Bridge New York Schedule:
27 March 2008
Professional Preview, 1pm - 4pm
Opening Night Party, 5pm - 10pm

28-29 March 2008
General Admission, Noon - 9pm

30 March 2008
General Admission, Noon - 7pm

For additional information: Bridge Art Fair website

• Marisa Jahn - nominated by Bottle Owner Stephanie Rothenberg
  
• Lucas Murgida - nominated by Bottle Owner Sara Dierck

The two grants were or $500 each. The current total of grant money generated from the Co-op Bar is over $1700, not including profits paid to bottle owners.