So, jamming today might not always involve clogging or blocking media channels, in the classic sense of throwing a wrench into the machine, but may instead manifest as a creative coopting and subversive remaking of media content. What relationship do you see between "memes" as the term is currently understood as a new media practice and the concept of culture jamming? Do "memes" offer us new opportunities to "highjack signs" and increase the visibility of alternative messages?
Or has meme-making become such a mundane part of our social media landscape that it no longer has a disruptive or subversive impact? Memes themselves—as spreadable bits of mediated culture—are neither inherently subversive nor inherently mundane.
Yes, memes can achieve high levels of visibility and rapid, widespread reach … but as for their potential to disrupt or subvert, that depends on the specific content and context.
Do we have a sense of what these various examples of culture jamming have in common? We name eight key characteristics that define culture jamming: it appropriates, operates serially, and is artful, playful, often anonymous, participatory, political, and transgressive. But definition is an interpretive act, and so context matters greatly in each particular instance.
One of the more impressive dimensions of your collection is the attempt to expand the concept of culture jamming into other national contexts, including, for example, the international Occupy movement or the Arab Spring movements. As we do so, these questions of context would seem to matter all the more, though, as we shift from contexts where free market capitalism reigns to situations where what is being resisted are various forms of state power. Can we use the same conceptual models to talk about both situations?
Interestingly, we have found that forms of culture jamming emerge in tandem with the expansion of communication technologies and spread of global capital.
Think of the Arab Spring, which would not have unfolded the way it did without Facebook and mobile phones. But culture jamming was never just about musicians. It seemed clear that the only way to challenge, or better yet transcend the increasingly powerful neoliberal ideology that had become so hegemonic globally as well as in the United States during the s would be to combine the research and insights of critical scholars, the best practices and strategies of activist communities, and the most creative and original politically engaged art, music and literature.
Only such a holistic approach could create the complex synergy — not necessarily harmony, but definitely grooving and with a singular melody — that would amplify the messages of the movement, reach a critical mass of people, and get them moving onto the streets where the real fight for racial, social, economic and environmental justice would have to take place. After a decade of post-Cold War triumphalism by the fin de millennium, critical scholars had come up with the first trenchant critiques of neoliberal globalization, which coalesced and helped shape large-scale activist efforts and mass protests, wherein politically engaged art played an important role.
A follow-up held in Prague for the anti-IMF protests in September showed how strong the synergy was between these three crucial components of the movement: media-savvy activists, critical scholars and artists. At certain moments the synergy of artistic creativity, activist energy and political discourse created what I and my colleague Bryan Reynolds have termed em u rgent emerging and urgent cultural production that is new, innovative and powerful enough to transform what begin as subcultures into countercultures and ultimately revolutionary cultures capable of affecting wide transformations in their societies.
For many if not most of these works of art, their creators embodied the principles of culture jamming in their knowledge both conditions and the mechanisms of struggle as well as the most powerful, jarring and new ways to represent it aesthetically. Such singular artists are far from the norm, most of the time deeply embedded knowledge of conditions and methods of struggle and powerfully original artistic conceptions come together through the interaction, or jamming, of many people.
The performance was an effective way of reminding people who are not burdened by racism that the community in which they live is currently under assault by it in physical, institutional, and ideological ways and that, as members of that community, they have a responsibility to fight those forces.
Both of these performances, by Emma Sulkowicz and the St. Louis protesters, are examples of culture jamming at its best. They surprise those who bear witness to them with their disruption of social norms, and in doing so, call those very norms, and the validity of the institutions that organize them into question.
Each offers a timely and deeply important commentary on troubling social problems and forces us to confront that which is more conveniently swept aside. This matters because viscerally confronting the social problems of our day is an important step in the direction of meaningful social change.
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The team around founder Kalle Lasn projects its anti-consumerist messages through sophisticated marketing techniques. One of the best-known websites on Culture Jamming it features the magazine, merchandising and a web gallery which shows the work of diverse groups. Negativland is the experimental-music and art collective that coined the term "culture-jamming" in Negativland's view of corporate culture from outside its fringes, and their first confrontation with what they consider to be the ill-advised aspects of our nation's copyright laws, produced the book "Fair Use: The Story Of The Letter U And The Numeral 2.
The performance of hundreds of New Yorkers dressed up as millionaires demanding to be freed completely from social responsibility in exchange for their contributions to the presidential election campaigns. The action was backed up by a website that is now offline.
Steven Duncombe, Verso, April Subvertise is a web gallery sharing hundreds of subvertisements, advertisement parodies. It is also possible to obtain spoof banners that link to random web designers. The posted ideas range from silly pranks to skillful Culture Jams to serious vandalism. Memefest is a website focused on the production of memes. From their site: "Feeling the full force of consumer consciousness and information overload lately, culturally-savvy students from Slovenia have responded with a call to explore the power that targetted ideas memes , have to spin the social fabric.
As a semi-virtual space and festival, Memefest intends to generate and release helpful memes which may bring some balance back into a brand-crazy world. For him, product recognition is only valid if there is being a negative message attached to the brand or company. Although Culture Jamming is mainly attractive to young people who like to express their radical attitude - and experience the adrenaline rush - Carvajal believes it can change views and in the longer run change policies.
He states that the use of the Internet is crucial for local actions to achieve a bigger impact. It introduces one of its successful lawsuits and shows some limits to their agenda.
Warren Berger , Commercial Rebellion. In: Metropolis, Oct. Presenting various examples, Berger argues that Culture Jamming techniques have already been incorporated into the language of the advertising industry. Billboard Liberation Front. The loose network of people connected as the Billboard Liberation Front makes well-planned changes on billboard advertising, then informs journalists and republishes the media coverage with photographs of the actions on their website.
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