Culture 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.
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For 10 years, Abrupt has been culture-jamming with manifestos, ad parodies, and radical pamphleteering.
Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters. Famous for their spoof ads.
Bypass compulsory web registration.
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.
Overview of subversive affirmation, media hoaxing, and adbusting, with links to influential participants. [English/German]
Articles, event schedule, photographs, message boards and downloadable media.
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.
Movement to bring basic comforts to mannequins, who work in horrible conditions and have no power to change it.
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.
Photographs of altered signs, advertising, and celebrity posters.
Internet art group with corporate front, promoting "artainment." [Requires frames]
Mark Dery popularized the term "culture jamming", and wrote a pamphlet titled "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs".
Political posters, guerilla postering guide and QuickTime movies.
Introduction to culture jamming in its many forms, with pictures and many links.
A global grassroots movement dedicated to reclaiming the media from the corporate cheesemongers.
Undertakes public art and Internet projects to raise questions about early 21st Century capitalism.
Blog about pranks, hacks, participatory art, flash mobs, and other creative endeavors in public places.
Guerilla street art. Featuring work by the "Midget Posse" and anonymous graffiti artists.
Introduction to culture jamming in its many forms, with pictures and many links.
Overview of subversive affirmation, media hoaxing, and adbusting, with links to influential participants. [English/German]
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.
For 10 years, Abrupt has been culture-jamming with manifestos, ad parodies, and radical pamphleteering.
Blog about pranks, hacks, participatory art, flash mobs, and other creative endeavors in public places.
Articles, event schedule, photographs, message boards and downloadable media.
Undertakes public art and Internet projects to raise questions about early 21st Century capitalism.
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.
Internet art group with corporate front, promoting "artainment." [Requires frames]
Photographs of altered signs, advertising, and celebrity posters.
Mark Dery popularized the term "culture jamming", and wrote a pamphlet titled "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs".
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.
Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters. Famous for their spoof ads.
Bypass compulsory web registration.
A global grassroots movement dedicated to reclaiming the media from the corporate cheesemongers.
Political posters, guerilla postering guide and QuickTime movies.
Movement to bring basic comforts to mannequins, who work in horrible conditions and have no power to change it.
Guerilla street art. Featuring work by the "Midget Posse" and anonymous graffiti artists.
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