Steve Lambert (artist)

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name = Steve Lambert


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birthdate = 1976
location = Los Angeles, California
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nationality = American
field = Street Art, Performance, and Internet Art
training = University of California at Davis, San Francisco Art Institute
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awards = 2007 Rhizome Commission, 2007 Eyebeam Senior Fellowship, 2004 Creative Work Fund award

Steve Lambert is an American artist (b. 1976) who works with issues of advertising and the use of public space. He is founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency, an artist-run initiative which critiques advertising through artistic interventions, and of the Budget Gallery (with Cynthia Burgess) which creates exhibitions by painting over outdoor advertisements and hanging submitted art in its place. [ [http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=23662 Budget Gallery; Taking back public space one art show at a time] by Emily Landes, The Wave Magazine, June 2003] Lambert's artistic practice includes drawing, performance, intervention, culture jamming, public art, video, and internet art. He has worked with the Graffiti Research Lab, Glowlab, and as a senior fellow with Eyebeam Open Lab.

About his work, Lambert says, "I have the unabashedly optimistic belief that art changes the way people look at the world. That belief fuels a pragmatic approach to bring about those changes." [ [http://visitsteve.com/bio/ Steve Lambert artist statement] ]

References

Additional References

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/technology/14adblock.html Web Fight: Blocking Ads and Adding Art] by Andrew Adam Newman New York Times, May 14, 2007
* [http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/magazine/007968.html Operation: Anti-Ad] by Caitlin Moneypenny-Johnston, Xpress Magazine February 14, 2007
* "Advertising Counterprogramming" by Elise Soukup, Newsweek October 11, 2004

External links

* [http://visitsteve.com Steve Lambert Website]
* [http://antiadvertisingagency.com/ Anti Advertising Agency]
* [http://budgetgallery.org/ The Budget Gallery]
* [http://whytheyhate.us/ Why They Hate.Us]
* [http://www.murketing.com/journal/?p=559 Q&A: Anti-Advertising Agency CEO Steve Lambert] by Rob Walker, Marketing May 22, 2007