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On the Web
- Abrupt Culture Jamming - For 10 years, Abrupt has been culture-jamming with manifestos, ad parodies, and radical pamphleteering.
- 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".
- Culture Jamming - Overview of subversive affirmation, media hoaxing, and adbusting, with links to influential participants. [English/German]
- Salon: Will culture-jam for food - The prankster behind the Voteauction.com satire needs your help to pay off his $3,800 legal debt. By Katharine Mieszkowski.
- sniggle.net - Well-written introduction to culture jamming in its many forms, with pictures and many links.
- Culture Jamming - Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs. The culture jammer's encyclopedia.
- Dot-Com Satire Blown Out - "An overload of Internet traffic has swamped the website of 'KillTheDot,' a loosely organized poster campaign that poked fun at the explosion of dot-com business and culture in San Francisco." [Wired]
- Secret Prankster Fund Goes Public - "ŪTMark will pay saboteurs for acts of creative subversion against mass-produced items." By Mark Frauenfelder [Wired]
- Etoy Heads for New York City - Now that they have won an apparent victory over Santa Monica-based eToys, the Internet artists of etoy have their eyes on taking Manhattan. By Steve Kettmann [Wired News].
- The Boys Behind Etoy - If the Santa Monica-based executives of eToys never quite understood their opponents in the art group etoy, they are not alone. [Wired News].
Wikipedia Articles
- Culture jamming - Culture jamming is the act of transforming mass media to produce commentary about itself, using the original medium's communication method. It is a form of public activism which is generally in opposition to commercialism, and the vectors of corporate image.
- Jamming (dance) - Jamming in dance culture is a kind of informal show-off during a social dance party. Dancers clear a circle (jam circle or dance circle) and dancers or dance couples take turns showing their best tricks while the remaining dancers cheer the jammers on.
- Infringement Festival - The infringement Festival is an international, interdisciplinary critical arts festival that features theatre, music, film, culture jamming, street performance and visual arts, with an emphasis on activist art and work that challenges the commodification of culture.
- The Yes Men (film) - The Yes Men is a film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men.
- Igor Vamos - Igor Vamos (also known as Mike Bonanno) is one of the leading members of The Yes Men, a culture jamming activist group. Their exploits in "identity correction" are documented in the film The Yes Men.