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Add-Art is an ad blocker and an art show in one
Of all the unlikely places to curate an art show, the ad space on websites has to be one of the most unlikely. Instead of shocking a monkey or being invited to meet some "adult friends," how about looking at a selection of art that changes every two weeks? The Add-Art plugin for Firefox comes packaged with Adblock Plus, but instead of removing the ads entirely, it displays images from the current show.Replacing ads with art sounded a bit hokey to me at first, but its the curation that makes this idea brilliant. There's something uplifting about a campaign to take a space in a website's layout, that people were just going to throw away with ad-blockers anyway, and repurpose it to show them something new. Looking through the past exhibits, one of the more interesting projects was curated by having Amazon Mechanical Turk workers select their favorites: a clever, populist approach to art, made possible by the web.
[via Andrew Richardson on Twitter]
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Subscribe to commentspr0viderFeb 6th 2009 11:45AM
Damn!! Why not on IE8, too?
zkamFeb 6th 2009 12:48PM
OK, so I can replace the clutter and unnecessary bandwidth usage of downloading ads, with clutter and unnecessary bandwidth usage of downloading art? Um... no thanks.
steve lambertFeb 8th 2009 11:30AM
Just to correct this, the art images are downloaded once every two weeks and then loaded locally, so using Add-Art will speed up your browsing.
xvcxcyFeb 6th 2009 3:48PM
This recommendation must have been some evil plot by Downloadsquad to generate some revenue for AOL, because Add-Art does absolutely nothing, not even HIDE the ads, and even fucks up your existing and working Adblock Plus installation.
Uninstalling Add-Art alone did not help, I had to reinstall Adblock Plus as well.
JorgeFeb 6th 2009 5:07PM
My 13 year old reads Download Squad. Is the foul language necessary?
gonintendoFeb 6th 2009 5:47PM
I bet you he is 13 years old.
steve lambertFeb 8th 2009 11:33AM
if you're having a problem please use the add-art forums - forum.add-art.org - although because I haven't seen anything like this reported before, I'd recommend looking at our troubleshooting section and make sure you installed everything correctly - add-art.org/content/troubleshooting