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- A Thank-You For Sale - A web site promoting creative and unconventional modes of activism and free speech.
athankyouforsale.hypermart.net
- Abrupt Culture Jamming - For 10 years, Abrupt has been culture-jamming with manifestos, ad parodies, and radical pamphleteering.
www.abrupt.org/CJ/CJ.html
- Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters - Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters. Famous for their spoof ads.
www.adbusters.org
- ameriCON incorporated USA - Internet-based artists platform dedicated to the art of social critique.
www.lastminute-records.com/americon
- Baltimore City Paper: Gear Jammers - Article about the "sweatshop" Nike ID and Mike "Pepsi Boy" Cameron. By Joab Jackson.
www.citypaper.com/2001-03-14/cyber.html
- Big D - Urban guerilla artfare.
www.bigd.nu
- Billionaires for Bush (or Gore) - Satirical organization which held Million Billionaire Marches during the 2000 conventions of both "major" US political parties, as well as a vigil for corporate welfare.
billionairesforbushorgore.com
- Blimp: At Play in the Media Scrapheap - "Sonic Outlaws" by Craig Baldwin - [English w/German summary] by Jesse Lerner
gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/~blimp/full_text/lerner/lerner.html
- 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.
cacophony.org
- Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs - Full text of the culture jamming manifesto by Mark Dery, popularizer of the term "culture jamming"
www.levity.com/markdery/culturjam.html
- Culture Jamming: Spoof Web Ads - "Banner-jamming" site includes instructions on how to create spoof ad banners and a couple of examples.
www.rootmedia.org/~messmedia/jam
- Datablob: The collective nonsense exchange - A community and exchange for nonsense, competing with the cheery, industrious capitalism of the world's other great commerce and community websites.
www.datablob.com
- Die Kommunikationsguerilla - [German, English, Dutch]
www.contrast.org/KG
- Droplift Project - Anti-copyright collective of musicians using samples from popular culture to create challenging and subversive audio collage, which they freely distribute. Information about fair use and copyright issues in music, along with free MP3 downloads.
www.droplift.org
- Electronic Civil Disobedience - Archive for the Electronic Disturbance Theater, a "hacktivism" RealAudio program. Organizers of Jam Echelon Day, among other events.
www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/ecd.html
- 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.
www.enjoythesign.com
- Feed the Mannequins - Movement to bring basic comforts to mannequins, who work in horrible conditions and have no power to change it.
www.angelfire.com/ego/feedmanneqs
- 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.
www.freewords.org
- Hacking Memes - Essay about anti-memes and the anti-meme movement by Stephen Downes.
www.atl.ualberta.ca/downes/threads/column052599.htm
- Hyper-Redundant-Mart - Specializes in 'consumable simulacra'. "Why buy the product, when you can buy the idea? Buy the hype."
www.trojanmedia.org/hypermart.html
- jam.media.org - Part of the media.org cooperative. Jams include the federal government and the world of e-commerce.
jam.media.org
- K-Band Communications - An opening onto the fraudulent reality; material ranges from global art-movement coverage to experimental fiction to corporate subversion.
www.kband.com
- M. T. Enterprises WorldWide - Internet art group with corporate front, promoting "artainment." [Requires frames]
mteww.com
- Plagiarist.org - Internet art site comprised of strategically-modified internet content.
plagiarist.org
- Reamweaver - Software to "funhouse-mirror" any website, copying the "look and feel" but changing any words or images you choose.
reamweaver.com
- Robbie Conal's Art Attack - Political posters, guerilla postering guide and QuickTime movies.
www.robbieconal.com
- sfweekly.com: The Medium is the Message - "A new generation of Bay Area 'culture jammers' manipulates media manipulation" - by Sam Williams
www.sfweekly.com/extra/culturejam.html
- Slumber Inc. - Guerrilla art campaign fronting as a corporate entity utilizing stickers, wheat-pasted posters, and fake ads.
www.slumberinc.com
- Soy Bomb Nation - A global grassroots movement dedicated to reclaiming the media from the corporate cheesemongers.
www.hiphopmusic.com/soybomb.html
- Subvertise - Archive of subverts, political art, spoof banner ads and parody web sites.
www.subvertise.org
- Surefire Disappointment - Subverting the mainstream media in Charlotte and around the world.
www.disappointment.org
- The 'I amusingly altered a product's packaging' Page - Marker pens and paint are taken to various product names with humorous results.
www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2993/quikbrew.htm
- The Age: Melbourne Man Patents the Wheel - Freelance patent attorney John Keogh has been issued with an Innovation Patent for a 'circular transportation facilitation device'.
www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/07/02/FFX0ADFPLOC.html
- The Glitch - Revision of World War I & II and War on Terror propaganda posters, altered to express anti-war/anti-consumerist sentiments. From NYC artist, Jason Stella.
www.theglitch.org
- The National Cynical Network - Negativland co-conspirators out of Silicon Valley who produce voicemail art as well as all manner of audio collage.
sensoryresearch.com/~phineas/ncn/ncn.htm
- 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.
theyesmen.org
- Together We Can Defeat Capitalism - Undertakes public art and Internet projects to raise questions about early 21st Century capitalism.
www.twcdc.com/index2.htm
- Urbanize.org - "Reclaiming our cities from corporate rule through subversive art." Includes a useful guide to postering.
www.urbanize.org
- Yuppie Takeover - Graphic art taken to the streets as a way of questioning the consumerist way of life. T-shirts, stickers, posters, propaganda.
www.yuppietakeover.com
- Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia - Well-written introduction to culture jamming in its many forms, with pictures and many links.
www.syntac.net/hoax
- Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium - Mark Dery popularized the term "culture jamming", and wrote a pamphlet titled "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs"
www.levity.com/markdery
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