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Culture Jamming
- Well-written introduction to culture jamming in its many forms, with pictures and many links.|
» Abbie Hoffman Brigade, The - Artists who commit public acts of political art designed for free distribution. The Brigade credo is "Steal This Art!"
» Abrupt Culture Jamming - For 10 years, Abrupt has been culture-jamming with manifestos, ad parodies, and radical pamphleteering.
» Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters - Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters. Famous for their spoof ads.
» Are You Generic? - Against unethical corporations, censorship and excessive advertising. Photographs and movies of recent protests, news and discussions.
» BugMeNot.com - Bypass compulsory web registration.
» Cacophony Society - 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.
» Culture Jamming - Overview of subversive affirmation, media hoaxing, and adbusting, with links to influential participants. [English/German]
» Datablob - A community and exchange for nonsense, competing with the cheery, industrious capitalism of the world's other great commerce and community websites.
» Detroit Project, The - Ads linking SUVs to national security, an Arianna Huffington project by Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars.
» Enjoy the Sign - A funny, provocative movie about the filmmakers' obsession -- framed perversely as a series of TV commercials -- with a shining emblem of modern culture, The Sign.
» Feed the Mannequins - Movement to bring basic comforts to mannequins, who work in horrible conditions and have no power to change it.
» Free Words Project - 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.
» Hyper-Redundant-Mart - Specializes in 'consumable simulacra'. "Why buy the product, when you can buy the idea? Buy the hype."
» It Was Him - Photographs of altered signs, advertising, and celebrity posters.
» K-Band Communications - An opening onto the fraudulent reality; material ranges from global art-movement coverage to experimental fiction to corporate subversion.
» M. T. Enterprises WorldWide - Internet art group with corporate front, promoting "artainment." [Requires frames]
» Mark Dery's Shovelware - Mark Dery popularized the term "culture jamming", and wrote a pamphlet titled "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs".
» Mutual Fund from Hell, The - "Investing in the war on terror could be a winning proposition -- even if we lose." By Christopher Ketcham. [Salon]
» National Cynical Network, The - Negativland co-conspirators out of Silicon Valley who produce voicemail art as well as all manner of audio collage.
» Plagiarist.org - Internet art site comprised of strategically-modified internet content.
» Reamweaver - Software to "funhouse-mirror" any website, copying the "look and feel" but changing any words or images you choose.
» Robbie Conal's Art Attack - Political posters, guerilla postering guide and QuickTime movies.
» Santa Con - An online meeting place for coordinating Santa Con activities, trading stories, and selecting locations.
» SantaCon - Photos from previous years' events, with meeting times and places for upcoming activities.
» Santacon Cymru - Historical information on events in Wales.
» Santarchy - Santas creating mayhem on the streets in December. Links, police reports, pictures and articles.
» Santarchy Canadiana - Photos, discussions, and details of upcoming events in major Canadian cities.
» Soy Bomb Nation - A global grassroots movement dedicated to reclaiming the media from the corporate cheesemongers.
» The 'I amusingly altered a product's packaging' Page - Marker pens and paint are taken to various product names with humorous results.
» The Bubble Project - Manifesto, templates, book ordering, contact information and recommended links.
» The Complacent Organization - Articles, event schedule, photographs, message boards and downloadable media.
» The Yes Men - 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.
» Together We Can Defeat Capitalism - Undertakes public art and Internet projects to raise questions about early 21st Century capitalism.
» Urbanize.org - Guerilla street art. Featuring work by the "Midget Posse" and anonymous graffiti artists.
» What a Crappy Present - Humorous site that encourages people to not buy music CDs, mainly as a protest against the music sales and distribution industry (but not the artists themselves).
» ameriCON incorporated USA - Purports to be a multinational corporation seeking investment from conservative Christian businessmen who are interested in dominating global markets.
» genderpranks.org - Subverting commonly held assumptions around gender in public settings as a means of activism.
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