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Our Mission

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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    BOOKS

    Barbara Ehrenreich
    Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
    Lewis Hyde
    The Gift, Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
    Geoffrey Miller
    Spent: Sex, Evolution, & Consumer Behavior
    Sharon Zukin
    The Cultures of Cities
    Miriam Greenberg
    Branding New York
    Naomi Klein
    No Logo
    Kalle Lasn
    Culture Jam
    Stuart Ewen
    Captains of Consciousness
    Stuart Ewen
    All Consuming Images
    Stuart & Elizabeth Ewen
    Channels of Desire
    Jeff Ferrell
    Crimes of Style
    Jeff Ferrell
    Tearing Down the Streets
    John Berger
    Ways of Seeing
    Joe Austin
    Taking the Train
    Rosalyn Deutsche
    Evictions art + spatial politics
    Jane Jacobs
    Death+Life of American Cities