From Abbie Hoffman to Hothead Paisan: A Brief History (and Practice) of Culture Jamming

Electronic Disturbance Theatre - Culture Jamming Current Event

fluffysingler — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:35:28 +0000

Eletronic Disturbance Theatre is in the news lately. They represent activities that include virtual sit-in ins and other forms of internet activism that truly represent the roots of the term culture jamming -- to jam radio waves (or broadcasting airwaves) -- in this case jamming internet websites. Ricardo Dominguez is in trouble now for activities that potentially stand up to government policies on immigration. Below is an email that I've received, as well as some links to articles.

http://bang.calit2.net/

http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/EDTECD.html
http://affinityproject.org/groups/electronicdisturbance.html

Exploring the city - Situationist style

Guerrilla Girls

fluffysingler — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:59:49 +0000

It's always interesting to me that whenever I get ready to teach about something, there it is in the news! Here's some info from an email I just received today about the Guerilla Girls, which we will be talking about soon.

Yoko Ono Lennon announces Guerrilla Girls On Tour as one of the recipients
of the 2010 Courage Awards for the Arts. The Yoko Ono Lennon 2010 Courage
Awards for The Arts will be presented on Sunday 28 March 2010. Guerrilla
Girls On Tour is an anonymous touring theatre company of 26 women trained in
a variety of comedic theatre techniques who develop unique and outrageous
activist plays, performance art and street theatre. The troupe has
presented over 200 performances and workshops around the world addressing
reproductive rights, war, sex trafficking, hunger, herstory/history/hirstory
and violence against women. They will work with feminists in Slovenia on a
collaborative performance of their new play If You Can Stand the Heat: The
History of Women and Food at the City of Women Festival in October. For
more info on Guerrilla Girls On Tour email Aphra Behn at info@ggontour.com
or visit www.ggontour.com

As an update, we had a brief discussion last week and decided that we would watch the Chicago Conspiracy Trial when the full class was able to come, so we'll be watching it this week and then probably doing just a little bit of catch up--we may start with zines this week too.

Cheers.

Laura

From Abbie Hoffman to Reverend Billy: History, Practice and Pedagogy of Culture Jamming

Adbusters

fluffysingler — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:06:10 +0000

This is a good news/bad news thing. It used to be that adbusters had a page where you could create your own spoof ads, but I can't seem to navigate to it. I suspect they've given in to market forces and now have kits and the like for activists that you can buy. I sort of have a problem with that, but I also recognize that I'd rather have them around than not, and that's what they have to do. They're still a worthwhile organization, and sometime between now and week 4 (two weeks from now), please go to their website and tool around, see if anything catches your fancy. There are a lot of cool articles, blogs, etc. there.

https://www.adbusters.org/

From Abbie Hoffman to Reverend Billy: History, Practice and Pedagogy of Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming on Thursday

fluffysingler — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:45:08 +0000

Just a reminder that we'll see you on Thursday for the culture jamming class.

And as an incentive, anyone who makes it to four or more classes will get a nifty certificate of completion. You'll be an official culture jammer!

See you then.

From Abbie Hoffman to Reverend Billy: History, Practice and Pedagogy of Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming -- having blog problems

fluffysingler — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:33:12 +0000

HI all. As you can probably see I've been trying to upload files all day--literally like 3 or 4 hours--and I'm having problems with the blog function. Some are beyond my control and some are a result of the size of the files, which have a lot of graphics in them. Please write me/respond to this message and I will send you the articles for this week. I'll have copies in class too, but it'll be great if you can read them ahead of time.

If you can't come this week, you are still welcomed to come and jump in the following week, so don't let that keep you away! We're going to talk about the articles and watch about an hour of a film called Can Dialectics Break Bricks. It should be really fun!

I'm sending this to last semester's class too. If you didn't make all the sessions and want to join in again, please do!

See you Thursday.

Laura

From Abbie Hoffman to Reverend Billy: History, Practice and Pedagogy of Culture Jamming

Interesting site for culture jammers

fluffysingler — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:32:48 +0000

I was looking at articles in a journal and this group came up. Their site looks really interesting.

http://freee.org.uk/

From Abbie Hoffman to Hothead Paisan: A Brief History (and Practice) of Culture Jamming

Cutlure Jamming . . . well. Jams!

fluffysingler — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:57:44 +0000

Hey . . . I wanted to thank everyone who came out for Culture Jamming last night. We watched Can Dialectics Break Bricks and talked a little bit about effective culture jamming and how you might incorporate the Situationist tactic of detourning films and media into your own practice. One person said he would like to detourn Full House, which is a really gool idea.

What is detournment -- I could say come to the next class and find out! Basically it's the practice of taking an existing moving and putting your own dialogue into it for your own purposes (usually political). It never really caught onm but maybe we'll revive the practice!

For class next Wednesday, we're going to watch a re-enactment of the trial of the Chicago 8, charged with conspiracy to disrupt the 1968 Democractic National Convention in Chicago. The film stars Michael Lembeck as Abbie Hoffman (he palyed Julie's husband on One Day At A Time), Peter Boyle as David Dellinger, Robert Carridine (from Revenge of the Nerds) as Rennie Devis and Elliot Gould and Robert Loggie as lawyers Len Weinglass and William Kunstler. It's a really great cast and interspersed with interviews with the original defendants. We're also reading some excerpts from Hoffman's book "Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture."

We also had a suggestion that people see Manufacturing Dissent about Michael Moore. I may do a comparison of that movie with one of Michael Moore's agit prop films in a future class and we can have a discussion about that and mix it up a little.

In the future, we'll discuss the Situationists a little more, look at some 'zines and advertising, participate in Adbusters, and oh so much more!

Feel left out? Don't!. Come to the next sesssion of From Abbie Hoffman to Hothead Paisan and be a part of the conversation!

Weds nights at 7:00, 150 Blegen Hall, University of Minnesota.

Cheers!

From Abbie Hoffman to Hothead Paisan: A Brief History (and Practice) of Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming tonight!

fluffysingler — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:01:33 +0000

Hi. A couple of people have told me that the website is confusing, so here's a little clarification.

Culture Jamming meets 5 times - Wednesdays from September 30th to October 26th - in 150 Blegen Hall at the UM. So only come on Wednesdays and only until the 26th.

Our first class is tonight and I hope anyone out there who is considering the class will drop by and watch Can Dialectics Break Bricks and join the discussion!

From Abbie Hoffman to Hothead Paisan: A Brief History (and Practice) of Culture Jamming

Welcome to culture jamming

fluffysingler — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:04:03 +0000

Hi everybody! Just a reminder that we meet on the 30th. I'll send you an email next week too to remind you and give you the location.

I'm really excited about the class and one of the things we're going to do the first day, in addition to introductions, is to watch Can Dialectics Break Bricks? It's a really fun Situationist film that I think you'll enjoy.

In the meantime, if you want to post a reponse the blog (I'm hoping you can do that!) introducing yourself, feel free to do so. (If you'd rather wait for the first day of class, of course you can do that too.)

See you soon!

Laura Winton