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Automatic Ad Creator

January 21, 2007 |

An automatic ad generator, mixing real slogans with Flickr images. Via TechCrunch:

The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. By remixing corporate slogans, I intend to show how the language of advertising is both deeply meaningful, in that it represents real cultural values and desires, and yet utterly meaningless in that these ideas have no relationship to the products being sold. In using the Flickr images, the piece explores the relationship between language and image, and how meaning is constructed by the juxtaposition of the two.

Nothing too deep here, but it surely is a lot of fun and sadly, some of the ads actually work a lot better than a lot of other stuff I have seen lately.

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