Public Ad Campaign

I have always disagreed with the way advertising rapes public space… public art gets called vandalism and aggressively campaigned against,  yet outdoor advertising doesn’t even get mentioned. Are people crazy? A dozen billboards alongside a busy road intersection cannot seriously be called visually pleasing? Let alone the safety issue of them distracting motorists.  Then there’s the infinite shades of grey concrete and red brick that some people love so much they spend hundreds of thousands of public dollars trying to defend! A PLAIN WALL IS UGLY! Do you people walk down the street with your eyes open?

…Anyway, enough of my rant. The people at Public Ad Campaign know that advertises are stealing our public space and they’re doing something about it.

“Public Ad Campaign acts on the assumption that 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. Private property laws protect the communications made by outdoor advertising while systematically preventing public usage of that space
In an effort to illuminate these issues, Public Ad Campaign chronicles the activities of artists intent on challenging these relationships, as well as other contemporary issues in outdoor advertising and public space.
Through bold acts of civil disobedience we hope to air our grievances in the court of public opinion and witness our communities regain control of the space they occupy.”

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