Thursday, March 5, 2009

Culture Jamming

Hi All!
Here are some of the links I showed in class. I'm also including a couple I didn't show which deal with Detournment and subversive cartography... contemporary movements which may have been inspired from the Situationists/Guy Debord. These are also classified as Psychogeography. Basically these movements fit into Culture Jamming because they are questioning authority, authenticity and herd mentality regarding how we respond to our surroundings. Can we rely on a map to define our experience of a place? Why not create our own maps, our own realities based on personal experiences, our imagination and a hyper attention to our surroundings?

On the "Institute for Infinitely Small Things" website (the collective which publicly performs corporate commands), check out their projects, including the "unmarked package" video. This is a performance where the artists marched around Chicago with a pile of mysterious, unmarked packages and interviewed people on their views regarding fear and security. It's an interesting project.

Institute for Infinitely Small Things - Corporate Commands
http://www.ikatun.org/institute/infinitelysmallthings/corporatecommands/about.php

The Good Consumer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ut93YYZu8

The Bubble Project
http://thebubbleproject.com/a>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7GCsrX5K_o&feature=channel_page

Whirlmart - Buy Nothing Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JajJCcUUVgk

Subversive Cartography - Situationists - Psychogeography
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Photos/html/en/sm-essay.html

Subversive Cartography - Urban Interventionism - tweaking how a neighborhood is portrayed on google maps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDGyRO6w2o

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