10 Facts About Steve Lambert

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Steve Lambert is an American artist was born on 1976 and who works with issues of advertising and the use of public space.

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Steve Lambert is a founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency, an artist-run initiative which critiques advertising through artistic interventions, and of the Budget Gallery which creates exhibitions by painting over outdoor advertisements and hanging submitted art in its place.

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Steve Lambert has worked with the Graffiti Research Lab, Glowlab, and as a senior fellow at Eyebeam.

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Steve Lambert is a member of the New York based artist group Free Art and Technology Lab.

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Steve Lambert's father was a former Franciscan friar, and his mother, an ex-Dominican nun.

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Steve Lambert dropped out of high school in 1993, but went on to study sociology and film, receiving a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000, and an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 2006.

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Steve Lambert has made a free Firefox plugin, called Add-Art which replaces ads with art in conjunction with the Firefox Plugin Adblock Plus.

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In 2009, Steve Lambert developed "Self Control" at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.

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Steve Lambert came up with the idea from his own personal experiences with being distracted on the internet.

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Simmer Down Sprinter is a two-player, sit-down, arcade-style video game that Steve Lambert designed and programmed in which players compete to move runners around a track.