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Culture Jam - Jam it up

Culture jamming or subculture awareness and breaking through the barriers of society

Featured Work

Swine Flu - it's more serious than you think by MacLeod

- it’s more serious than you think…....
montreal die-in by KreddibleTrout

This was in protest of the death of a cyclist on Montreal street who was hit by a motorist. / It was incredible. Rue Ste. Catherine was shut down in the late afternoon on a Saturday. Closed the city for ten minutes. / It was beautiful. / I would say that it made a lot of Montreal motorists angry, but that would mean the protesters really had no effect. Autumn 2007. / Canon Rebel XT (that’s x-tra trout baby & don’t you forget it!) Challenge Winner My Most Popular Work in the Challenge Cafe!

Recent Work

roadside fetishist by KreddibleTrout

Scanned print from the ol K1000 taken in Toronto in 2005. She flirted with me. Really creeped me out.
Evil by Ry Bowie-Woodham

This one speaks for its self I think
Vesper by Liam Moore

Another shot taken in Hosier lane, Melbourne.
the monk and the crane by KreddibleTrout

Khaosan Road, Bangkok. 2008. the day after halloween. / I watched in typical ignorant western amazement as a Buddhist monk used a bank machine and wandered down this decadent road. My romantic notion of Buddhist monks being almost mystical creatures unencumbered by the material needs was shattered. I keep an open mind, or try to, and when stereotypes creep out of the shadows of my self-assumed ‘enlightened mind’, I am humbled. I forget how easy it is not to know something. I forget how easy it is to be ignorant. He was supposed to be sitting on a hill. / He was supposed to be sage. / He was not supposed to shop or have a cel phone. ...and I’m supposed to drink beer, make maple syrup and get into hockey fights, eh.
submission by KreddibleTrout

scanned print from the ol K1000. / taken in Halifax 2003-ish.
ghosts of monument by KreddibleTrout

Scanned print taken with my K1000 using Ilford FP4 film. / Montreal 2005 (I think) *I prefer this scan with the border on, but if you wish to purchase it framed or something fancy like that, I’d suggest using this alternate one without the border: /
Unusal place to park by Liam Moore

i was wondering around Hosier Lane in Melbourne when i came across this very nice looking Porsche, / it struck me as odd that it would park in a street art filled lane. Sorry i don’t know who the street artists are. i take no credit for the work supplied in this image.

About This Group

Culture jamming is a tactic used by various anti-corporate groups in order to stop what jammers see as the commodification of public space and the increasing one-way direction of discourse in the modern world. Culture jamming is usually performed against corporations and can take the form of bilboard alteration (or improvement), such as performed by the BLF, other alterations of billboards or artistic ‘reclamations of space’ such as the Reclaim the Streets movement. It often uses the corporate momentum or brand name against itself, such as using the image already presented in an ad to re-work the message, forcing the viewer to rethink the image that is presented.

Culture jamming sometimes entails transforming mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, using the original medium’s communication method.

Aims of culture jammers may include:

To have a good laugh (and to encourage others to do likewise) at the expense of prevailing social currents – many purveyors of which, in the opinion of many culture jammers, take themselves too seriously. Even culture jammers themselves are not immune to being the subjects of culture jamming, if they appear to be on their way to becoming as institutionalized and humorless as the original objects of culture jammers’ attention.
To reawaken a sense of wonder and fascination about one’s surrounding environment, inspired by the frequent intentional ambiguity of a specific culture jamming technique, which stimulates personal interpretation and independent thinking.
To demonstrate contrasts between iconic images, practices or attitudes and the realities or perceived negative side of the item object of the jamming (often the target is a trapping of monolithic power structures such as corporations, government or religions). This is often done symbolically, with the “detournement” of pop iconography.
To provoke an interest in civic engagement and social connectedness.

Culture jammers’ intent may differ from (but may overlap with) that of artistic appropriation (which is done for art’s sake) and vandalism (in which destruction or defacement is the primary goal), although its results are not always so easily distinguishable. Some street art and other actions fall into two or even all three categories.
(Wikipedia)

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