Comments on: A new place for net art: replacing ads

By: Brooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum » Mashing-up Hiroshige to block ads and Add-Art!

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:55:30 +0000

[...] caught up with Steve about a year ago in the comments on the Walker’s post about the application and mentioned the Museum would be interested in contributing images to the [...]

By: Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert — Fri, 25 May 2007 04:36:36 +0000

@Shelly – Email me and when things get rolling we’ll work it out. In fact, anyone with anything that could be called a “curatorial concept” should get in touch. We should be assembling a calendar later this year.

By: Shelley Bernstein

Shelley Bernstein — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:02:04 +0000

@Steve - We've got the same interest as the Walker. We'd love to make a Brooklyn Museum modified extension perhaps to show the work in the Feminist Art Base or our Collection images.

By: Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:54:01 +0000

The extension should simply point to some images on a server hosted at Eyebeam. The artwork respository should be very customizeable, because it will be on the server (not seeded). If you wanted to do something with the artists from mnartists.org, you could propose a show or modify the extension and make your own. As far as server load, small images shouldn't be too hard on it. We thought about ways the images could be downloaded once and held locally, but at this point I don't think that will work. We're also looking at ways the images could be cached by the browser so they will be downloaded less often.

By: Nate Schroeder

Nate Schroeder — Wed, 16 May 2007 12:03:37 +0000

@Steve – I read about your project on the Make blog (probably as Justin was writing) and immediately wondered how customizable the “artwork repository” would be? The Walker helps run a site for Minnesota artists, mnartists.org, which is full of new work from photos to painting to sculpture — and I’ve got code written that could provide custom sizes of the images. That is, banners, etc… The only downside is I’m not sure the server is up for the load that would be put on it from thousands and thousands of image hits– are you imagining hosting the artwork somewhere? Or do you have something else in mind entirely for seeding the artwork?

Cool project!

By: Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert — Wed, 16 May 2007 05:15:43 +0000

Just wanted to drop a note that I am thinking similarly about these issues and planning with them in mind. Adblocking extensions are the #1 most popular extensions for Firefox. AdBlockPlus has been downloaded millions of times. The potential audience from just a fraction of those users is huge, not to mention that new users in the art community. You are right, getting those users to choose to look at art instead of blank space is one of the challenges. Also, for what it’s worth, right now it looks like AddArt will work in conjunction with AdBlockPlus. A good sign…

If you want any more info, let me know.

Steve Lambert

By: taylor

taylor — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:02:39 +0000

There’s something a little… I dunno… not quite right about the eagle on teh Fox News page. It’s like there couldn’t have been a more appropriate image selection for a page already as hyper-Americanized as it could be.