Week 5- Tutespark

Culture Jamming
I think the best and clearest description i can find of the term 'Cultural Jamming' is from wikiHow:
'Culture jamming is the art of hijacking the mainstream media, corporate advertisers, and the public domain to get across a message against one-way communication. Basically, culture jamming is sabotage of corporate or public property for political purposes.'
http://www.wikihow.com/Culture-Jam

Culture jamming can be done to underlay issues and bring awareness to make a statemnt. They are highly political. Its almost like appropriation of something in order to make a statement.

Most culture jamming originated from art. There are many sites that say who created the first culture jam but it is very unclear. What i found is:

Nery traces the spirit of culture jamming back to the absurdist carnival traditions of medieval Europe. Most modern historians, however, would regard the brief dada art movement of the early 1920s and the absurdist Situationist International movement of the 1950s as the primary artistic influences of today's culture jamming community.
http://www2.inow.com/~sam/cultjam2.html

3 examples of Culture Jamming
Borat the movie is an example of Culture jamming in a video format. He pretty much mocks every celebrity and political issues of the typical American and typical European. Here's a short clip from the movie of him making fun of Pamela Anderson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftY2p0L8F-Q

The second one we were shown in class is- and probably the biggest!: Rage Against The Machine Shoots New Video With Michael Moore.

This story really interested me and the power of culture jamming is intense especially in situations like this when they make the new. I can see why people do it, it seems highly addictive. This video shows the band Rage against the Machine and how they made world wide news as they played for their fans on the steps of the stock exchange. This unexpected drama cause the entire stock exchange to close for like a whole day!! insane!!! The funny thing about it is, that cops and everybody knew about it- that they were going to play- but thought it was a hoax. When it actually did happen they were unprepared and chaos let loose. They did this to shoot a film clip for their new song, the clip is highly entertaining but the story behind it is like no other. Hilarious!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x236hb_rage-against-the-machine-sleep-now_music
Info from:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1433553/20000128/rage_against_the_machine.jhtml

Adbusters is a site that constantly uses culture jamming to stir emotion.

Adbusters
This picture is pretty funny and true most likely!
Pepsie MAn
McGut
This ones also very controversial:
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