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Walk. An intervention in public space.

Walk. An intervention in public space.
We have been thoroughly interested in the urban space and the possibilities of its decolonization fr...

"F.A.C.C. (Fuerza Artística de Choque Comunicativo)
https://www.lavaca.org/notas/la-facc-en-el-g20-d..."

CALLING FOR EXTREME SUBMISSIONS
A CALL TO RESPOND
Issue six of the Equal Standard finds us delving into the world of extremes. Let ...

Donald Weber writes about photography as a discipline, profession and practice, which still has a long journey to make for to be able to think the conditions of its own production. This work is part of a larger body of work Donald and I are developing, one day it will be a book. A next text related to the ideas Donald is talking about here is in the making. Highly recommended reading!

https://tinyurl.com/y6d9fhtg

"@Bernadette- you mean from 'Global Liberal Media" into "Democratic Media"?..."

"Thanks for this SanFrancisco- if you have any more examples on Culture Jamming coming from Argentina..."

The Baffler on Spotify and how its main value for brands and advertisers is to know really a lot about our emotional states via their mood based playlists.

https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pelly

"Proyecto Squatters from ARG
https://www.facebook.com/watch/1554575938095703/
http://proyectosquatt..."

Global Liberal Media Please

Global Liberal Media Please

Global Liberal Media Please
We have lately again become interested into Culture Jamming, a practice we have been very involved i...

Yes, I'm just drafting the rationale for the next issue now! The theme is 'extremism'.

https://www.peterdrewarts.com

oliver
3 years, 2 months ago

Thanks for this Gabriela, I saw some of his posters, now I know who is the author! He really makes an effort, I mean putting 1000 posters around the country is a big achievement.
BTW, I am still giving your zine to selected people... Will you be able to do another one?

There is several reasons I am posting this. First, it is time to bring this wonderful text, the original text by Mark Dery, which first theorized the term Culture Jamming - in fact Dery has coined the term- to you.

So here is: Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs

http://markdery.com/?page_id=154

I find the concept of Culture jamming still very useful, although the practice of CJ was in the last two decades abused, coopted, critiqued for being just an empty fashion etc. I always thought that in order to do it well, Culture Jamming needs superb understanding of communication, design and art in relation to meaning making in our media, well in the world.

Now, the media has changed and changed again, and the question is how is Culture jamming useful in the current social media, surveillance driven media sphere. But it is and even if we engage just in the visual graphic part, it can do "something".

So what can it do today, I am asking you? And this is what I aim to start figuring out more with my master of communication design students here at RMIT. As part of a set of semiotic strategies, named Re:Coding we will look into that. But I would need your help- what are good examples of CJ, what are good CURRENT examples of CJ? How would you run a project on CJ with students?

Here is a video of one that I love from our friend Vladimir Turner, and the whole project is here:

http://sgnlr.com/works/outside/house-of-cards/#

Any ideas and examples would be welcome.

What great memories! Culture jamming 2002, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Perhaps the first culture jamming action in Slovenia- in a night action we jammed a national campaign on the importance of brands and branding. Big Slovenian brands had billboards all over in order to promote the value of brands and the importance of buying well known brands.

We used a stencil and jammed billboards on major crossroads or other prominent locations. This was in the middle of the process for the first Memefest and in no minor way we were influenced by the Culture Jamming concepts and culture in thinking about our first festival. Especially No Logo by Naomi Klein and the Adbusters magazine were important at that time.

sgnlr
3 years, 3 months ago

bigup

oliver
3 years, 3 months ago

Thanks sgnlr- what are you up to these days? Have you been doing any interventions recently? Also, did you check the links I gave you in relation to doing a PhD in Melbourne?

This is such a cool text: 101 Ways to Play With the Mainstream, Culture Jamming as subversive recreation, by Tom Liacas.

Written at the height of the popularity of Culture jamming it is highly relevant as it speaks from within the very cultures that created the phenomenon. Still now, CJ is a widely used practice and in my opinion should be taught, perhaps under the banner "Re-Coding" to students. To be a good Jammer means to be a super good communicator/ designer/ media manipulator. Its much more difficult that it seams, but most of all, it really is fun.
Check it out, I have given it to read to some of my students for their research project in the masters of communication design.

http://cumuluspress.burningbillboard.org/pdf.files/4.101tricks.pdf

oliver
3 years, 4 months ago

Here is also the link to the whole book and you can download the chapters:

http://cumuluspress.burningbillboard.org/autonomousmedia.html

Hey here is my new paper that is just published and available on the link bellow:

Extradisciplinary risk-taking: Design education as institutional critique



Abstract: Risk in education in the creative field of communication design is usually seen in connection with creativity as subjective expression and innovation as desired impact. This article positions risk in relation to the political in design education. It puts forward the argument that a particular type of risk-taking in education can work towards shifting design from a position of a service-providing activity towards a more emancipated practice, which would not comply with the pressures of neoliberal capitalism. To counter the current state of compliance this article suggests a three-level model of extradisciplinary risk-taking as institutional critique. The case of Memefest and Design Futures is discussed. Theoretical analysis is combined with (auto) ethnography and qualitative research.

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/adche/2019/00000018/00000001/art00009

Image by my friend Sandy Kaltenborn (www.image-shift.net)

If you cant access the paper online because your institution cant afford to pay for the journal subscription or because you are not an academic and cant access this or for what ever reason write to me: oliver AT memefest.org

Of course I would appreciate any of your thoughts and comments!

Hi Oliver, I just mashed the two logos directly together - I didn't alter them in anyway - other than covering up 'pig'. "Pork" and the registered mark are the Pork Australia logo. I think I will do a run of t-shirts!

oliver
3 years, 4 months ago

Hey Gabriella, I see now, thats super! I wasn't aware of the Port Australia logo. If you will do a run of T-Shirts, please let me know, if possible id buy one.

Awesome Oliver- thanks for sharing! I just created this myself...

oliver
3 years, 4 months ago

Ha, that's really cool, I love it! That would make great stickers, or T-Shirts! I wonder though - why did you decide to write "Pork" + "r" in a very different way than the original?