Culture Jamming (Society/Activism/Media/Culture_Jamming)
up Culture JammingCulture jamming, or "media hacking", is the deliberate subversion of media messages (usually advertising). This category is particularly for groups or organizations whose express purpose is to disrupt the institutions of modern, usually Western culture: the corporation, the media, science, religion. In short, their targets are "the Establishment" and most authority. The tactics used are varied, but generally fall in the category of subversive/humorous media stunts. That can range from straight-forward parodies to deliberate hoaxes. At the extremes includes anarchistic acts of "poetic terrorism," like billboard defacement, or "art sabotage", willful acts of destruction in a performance art style.EntriesBugMeNot.com http://bugmenot.com/ Bypass compulsory web registration. The Yes Men http://theyesmen.org/ A genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of the behind-the-scenes world of business. Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters http://www.adbusters.org/ Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters. Famous for their spoof ads. sniggle.net http://www.sniggle.net/ Well-written introduction to culture jamming in its many forms, with pictures and many links. The Bubble Project http://thebubbleproject.com/ Manifesto, templates, book ordering, contact information and recommended links. Cacophony Society http://cacophony.org/ A randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society through subversion, pranks, art, fringe explorations and meaningless madness. Santarchy http://santarchy.com/ Santas creating mayhem on the streets in December. Links, police reports, pictures and articles. Mark Dery's Shovelware http://www.markdery.com/ Mark Dery popularized the term "culture jamming", and wrote a pamphlet titled "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs". Are You Generic? http://www.areyougeneric.org/ Against unethical corporations, censorship and excessive advertising. Photographs and movies of recent protests, news and discussions. Santa Con http://santacon.tribe.net/ An online meeting place for coordinating Santa Con activities, trading stories, and selecting locations. Reamweaver http://reamweaver.com/ Software to "funhouse-mirror" any website, copying the "look and feel" but changing any words or images you choose. National Cynical Network, The http://www.nationalcynical.com/ Negativland co-conspirators out of Silicon Valley who produce voicemail art as well as all manner of audio collage. Plagiarist.org http://plagiarist.org/ Internet art site comprised of strategically-modified internet content. SantaCon http://www.santacon.com/ Photos from previous years' events, with meeting times and places for upcoming activities. M. T. Enterprises WorldWide http://mteww.com/ Internet art group with corporate front, promoting "artainment." [Requires frames] Together We Can Defeat Capitalism http://www.twcdc.com/ Undertakes public art and Internet projects to raise questions about early 21st Century capitalism. Culture Jamming http://www.culture-jamming.de/ Overview of subversive affirmation, media hoaxing, and adbusting, with links to influential participants. [English/German] K-Band Communications http://www.kband.com/ An opening onto the fraudulent reality; material ranges from global art-movement coverage to experimental fiction to corporate subversion. Detroit Project, The http://www.detroitproject.com/ Ads linking SUVs to national security, an Arianna Huffington project by Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars. Free Words Project http://www.freewords.org/ Book project by artist Sal Randolph. Free Words is a free and uncopyrighted book being given away in bookstores, libraries, galleries and other venues. Look for a free copy in New York bookstores, or download a pdf version from this site. SubcategoriesAkayism Akay is a young Stockholm artist whose guerilla art contains messages about reclaiming the streets and the Andre the Giant Has a Posse Obey-Giant is artist and skateboarder Shepard Fairey's experiment in phenomenology. It began in 1990 with the "ANDRE THE GIANT HAS A POSSE: 7'4", 520 LB" stickers. Over one million of the stickers Billboard Alteration Altering outdoor advertising to subvert its message. Called "billboard liberation" or "billboard improvement" by etoy etoy is a group of artists working on the internet since 1994. The group's first and most publicized action was the "digital hijack" in 1996, in which they tricked a number of major search engines to Hoaxes Deliberate hoaxes that are intended to defraud people of preconceptions, not money or power. Kill the Dot Poster campaign featuring posters with a circle-slashed-dot and domain names like "ButIdon'tNeedMyToothpasteDelivered.com", "ShredsOfSomeonesSoulForAuction.com", Nike ID Nike ID allows users to order personalized Nike sneakers with messages of their choosing stitched on them. They have been reluctant to Patenting Own Genes Donna McLean of Bristol, Great Briton, reportedly became the first person to try and patent her own genes. Pepsi Shirt on Coke Day Greenbrier High School of Evans, Georgia, USA, held "Coke in Education Day" to win a $500 local contest by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Augusta, and a national contest with a $10,000 prize. Spoof Websites Sites that look like other websites at first (and second) glance, but with subversive content. Telephone Tone Copyright Australian composers Nigel Helyer, aka Dr Sonique, and Jon Drummond have copyrighted the melodies produced by 100,000,000,000 ®TMark ®TMark (the TM should be superscript), pronounced "art mark," supports the sabotage of corporate products by channeling funds and resources to the creative saboteurs. Past successes include the Vote Auctions In the site's own words: "The election industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to influence the presidential election, system is an inefficient waste of money for the Related categoriesActivism Anticonsumerism questions whether we as a society really need all our gadgets like hairdryers and whatnot; shows how advertising cons us into buying things we don't really need and don't ultimately Culture Anarchist lifestyles and culture. Free Speech This category is for sites about free speech as a human right, as well as sites documenting suppression of that right by governments, and webpages about the controversies on Guerrilla Art Guerrilla Art, a form of street art evolved from the graffiti art culture in the United States. A form of Public Art, it is not “moveable” but more “environmental” in that the surface used to Intellectual Property Pages or organizations which debate whether or not some or all "intellectual property" laws are unfair monopoly Negativland Performance Art Performance Art, analagous to Live art, is a nontraditional art form that consists of or features a performance by the artist. "At the cutting edge of ideas and expression, live art is a rejection Subcultures Take a walk outside your world just a second, not out of your office or out of your house but almost into a different plane of existence. This has nothing to do with subcultures of society. Neigbour categoriesAnti-Channel-Logos Sites advocating the removal of TV channel logos. Radio Sites relating to organizing and activism with a focus on the Pacifica Radio Network it's stations and affiliates. (This section is quite beta and buggy, have patience. Thanks)
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