New York City's public environment is a carnival of commercial influences and private concerns. Each step brings new desires and unwanted needs. By replacing public advertising with artwork, PublicAdCampaign temporarily alleviates a fraction of this burden while attempting to cultivate more personal interactions between public individuals. Many times these efforts are thwarted even before they can be seen. Though not public in its execution, the permanent removal of these public advertising structures for this show satisfies the project's condition: trading public dialogue for a deeper individual investigation of our public environment.

PublicAdCampaign is an ongoing public art project dedicated to reclaiming public advertising space from commercial forces, and in doing so questioning the nature and usage of our shared environment. These projects are a reaction to an experience of the public environment. A response to the deafening voice of advertising and its tendency to colonize public physical space and thus public mental space.

Jordan Seiler graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. He has since returned to his hometown of New York, NY where he currently lives and works in Brooklyn.