Media about culture jamming, 1991 - 1997
Comment from Mary Dery
- Correspondence, calendars, media coverage, booklet of essays related to 1996 film and video series on culture jamming presented by the Toronto-based Pleasure Dome, “an artist-run presentation organization and publisher dedicated to … fostering a culture of artists’ experimental media, including video, film, and other forms of moving image. … Pleasure Dome is mandated to: … present a variety of different genres, styles, and approaches from historical to contemporary strategies of cinematic spectacle, disruption, and other attempts to re-imagine the experimental media tradition…” (https://pdome.org/about/).
- “Jam What?” Printout of Video Vault essay on CJ
- “Subvertising: Culture Jamming Reemerges on the Media Landscape,” Naomi Klein, Village Voice, May 6, 1997
- Poster, correspondence, booklet, flyer, articles about Channel Zero (Stephen Marshall, Sarah Aston, etc.), a Canadian group of media-activist filmmakers, “guerrilla television” exponents, and countercultural broadcasters whose stated goal is “to create a new form of media that will interact with its audience’s DNA and create a new generation of media activists who will reclaim their planet from the forces that are destroying it.”
- Extensive fax correspondence, spanning March-June 1994, with “independent producer/editor/director” Harold Boihem about a documentary he intended to make on culture jamming. Included in his faxes are extensive lists of prospective talking heads; this inventory of experts would be of great interest to scholars researching the history of culture jamming and the academics and public intellectuals who shaped its discourse.
- Website printouts related to the conjunction of culture jamming and the neo-Situationist group “Abrupt.”
- “CULTURE JAMMING. San Francisco’s New Pranksters: The subversive laughter of the next generation,” San Francisco Bay Guardian cover story, January 11-17, 1995.
- “Waging War on Culture Pollution: ‘Jamming,’ a new breed of dissent, parodies popular ad images in a campaign to cleanse our mental environment,” Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1992
- Course listing for New School class on culture jamming taught by legendary media hoaxer Joey Skaggs, 1994-95. (Note: I visited Skagg’s class, where I delivered a guest lecture.)
- Letter from media activist/culture jamming aficionado Eric Darton.
- Utne Reader article on culture jamming, Adbusters, and Adbusters publisher Kalle Lasn.
- Publisher’s catalogue page for Gareth Branwyn’s Jamming the Media: A Citizen’s Guide to Reclaiming the Tools of Communication.
Dates
- Creation: 1991 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 3.36 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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