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Guerilla street art. Featuring work by the "Midget Posse" and anonymous graffiti artists.
http://www.urbanize.org/

Political posters, guerilla postering guide and QuickTime movies.
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http://www.robbieconal.com/

Internet art group with corporate front, promoting "artainment." [Requires frames]
http://mteww.com/

An opening onto the fraudulent reality; material ranges from global art-movement coverage to experimental fiction to corporate subversion.
http://www.kband.com

A funny, provocative movie about the filmmakers' obsession -- framed perversely as a series of TV commercials -- with a shining emblem of modern culture, The Sign.
http://www.enjoythesign.com/

Internet art site comprised of strategically-modified internet content.
http://plagiarist.org/

For 10 years, Abrupt has been culture-jamming with manifestos, ad parodies, and radical pamphleteering.
http://www.abrupt.org/CJ/CJ.html

A global grassroots movement dedicated to reclaiming the media from the corporate cheesemongers.
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/soybomb.html

Specializes in 'consumable simulacra'. "Why buy the product, when you can buy the idea? Buy the hype."
http://www.trojanmedia.org/hypermart.html

A randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society through subversion, pranks, art, fringe explorations and meaningless madness.
http://cacophony.org/

Marker pens and paint are taken to various product names with humorous results.
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2993/quikbrew.htm

Article about the "sweatshop" Nike ID and Mike "Pepsi Boy" Cameron. By Joab Jackson.
http://www.citypaper.com/2001-03-14/cyber.html

Internet-based artists platform dedicated to the art of social critique.
http://www.lastminute-records.com/americon

A community and exchange for nonsense, competing with the cheery, industrious capitalism of the world's other great commerce and community websites.
http://www.datablob.com/

Movement to bring basic comforts to mannequins, who work in horrible conditions and have no power to change it.
http://www.angelfire.com/ego/feedmanneqs/

Book project by artist Sal Randolph. Free Words is a free and uncopyrighted book being given away in bookstores, libraries, galleries and other venues. Look for a free copy in New York bookstores, or download a pdf version from this site.
http://www.freewords.org/

A genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of the behind-the-scenes world of business.
http://theyesmen.org/

Software to "funhouse-mirror" any website, copying the "look and feel" but changing any words or images you choose.
http://reamweaver.com/

"Investing in the war on terror could be a winning proposition -- even if we lose." By Christopher Ketcham. [Salon]
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/11/axis_of_evil_fund/

Art that inspires, provokes, and subverts the dominant corporate paradigm. Information on their music, stickers, and project.
http://subvert.us/

Artists who commit public acts of political art designed for free distribution. The Brigade credo is "Steal This Art!"
http://users.lmi.net/bblackie/ahb/

Undertakes public art and Internet projects to raise questions about early 21st Century capitalism.
http://www.twcdc.com/

Opinions, issues, and links.
http://www.derekbaker.net/culturejam.htm

Negativland co-conspirators out of Silicon Valley who produce voicemail art as well as all manner of audio collage.
http://www.nationalcynical.com/

Ads linking SUVs to national security, an Arianna Huffington project by Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars.
http://www.detroitproject.com/

Against unethical corporations, censorship and excessive advertising. Photographs and movies of recent protests, news and discussions.
http://www.areyougeneric.org/

Santas creating mayhem on the streets in December. Links, police reports, pictures and articles.
http://santarchy.com/

Articles, event schedule, photographs, message boards and downloadable media.
http://www.complacent.org/

Well-written introduction to culture jamming in its many forms, with pictures and many links.
http://www.sniggle.net/

Mark Dery popularized the term "culture jamming", and wrote a pamphlet titled "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs".
http://www.levity.com/markdery/

"Already notorious for his guerrilla tactics in dealing with the mass media, San Francisco based filmmaker Craig Baldwin has explored the potential of culture jamming in his new film Sonic Outlaws." By Jesse Lerner. [English w/German summary]
http://gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/~blimp/full_text/lerner/lerner.html

Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters. Famous for their spoof ads.
http://www.adbusters.org/

Bypass compulsory web registration.
http://bugmenot.com/

Humorous site that encourages people to not buy music CDs, mainly as a protest against the music sales and distribution industry (but not the artists themselves).
http://www.whatacrappypresent.com/

Alterations of television advertisements to comment on the human condition and provoke discussions of media literacy. Also provides calendar of live events and suggestions for action.
http://www.mindbomb.tv/