https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2072546/panneau-piratage-quebec-message-pro-gaza

Hi everyone, I leave here a diagram I prepared for a conference I did on Culture Jamming in Zürich years ago. I post here the link to a blog I've been updating since 2007 (omg....) with a mix of "classic" Culture Jamming (from Reverend Billy to 90s subvertising and billboard liberation actions) to less canonic pieces of cultural sabotage and remix in all the possible forms I could find. I sincerely hope you like it - it took me years to gather that collection!)

Culture Jam blog

(or copy-paste https://jamon.tumblr.com/archive)

Salut!

Pau

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Edit: TLDR at the bottom.

Let me start this with a question. Which sport is better, hockey or curling? I live in Canada and I am sure you can guess which one would win in a mass vote.

Now for the story. It happened many years ago while I was a bicycle messenger in one of our big cities. The elevators of our big towers had small screens just above where the floor number was displayed. They would show information like weather, news, etc. It was nice to have something to look at while waiting for your floor. They would also do this questionnaire with a different question every week that one could go and vote on if you wanted to visit their website and cast a vote. I think you could even vote once a day until Friday when they would announce the winner, but you could also see the percentage of the votes already cast each day.

Now, this was around the time I had read a book called Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn, and I was totally looking for anything I could take on. Well, I found this one on a Monday morning. The question to vote on for this week was “Which sport is better, hockey or curling?” Hands down you know which one was going to win without even having to go and vote yourself. So, I thought hey, let's mess with this and see what happens. I went from office to office and told everyone I knew to go to the website and vote for curling. I even emailed my friends and family who lived on the other side of the country and told them to go and vote for curling. I also told my fellow messengers what I was doing and to get people to vote for curling.

By Wednesday curling was on the rise and getting close to hockey. My messenger friends would be in elevators and told me that people everywhere were looking up at the screens and saying “Wow, what’s up with curling?” The next day was Thursday, and it was 49% for curling and 51% for hockey. It was going to happen. Curling was going to beat hockey. But no, they shut it down and did not reveal a winner that Friday.

edit: TLDR. I influenced an online questionnaire to sway the result. "Which sport is better, hockey or curling?" We got it to 49% for curling, 51% hockey then they shut it down and did not let curling win.

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https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1304471275532763136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Google Drive, download, print, disseminate:

https://t.co/XBuGh0WFaH?amp=1

I'm curious if anyone here has had any luck with meeting local peeps who are interested in culture jamming as an art form and method of activism, and what their success stories are. Do you hang flyers around town? Post on Craigslist? Social Media? Or is it just something you have to fall into by happenstance?

Muchas gracias.