Flashcards: Culture jamming

The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Encyclopedia Dramatica (often abbreviated ED and æ) is a satirical website, consisting of a wiki that uses MediaWiki software, and a forum based on XenForo forums software.

The terms Google bomb and Googlewashing refer to the practice of causing a web site to rank highly in web search engine results for unrelated or off-topic search terms by linking heavily.

In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional responseor of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion, often for their own amusement.

The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s.

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by the Canadian author Naomi Klein.

Eclectic Method is the name of an audio-visual remix act, originally formed in London in 2001 by Jonny Wilson.

Johannes Grenzfurthner (German: [joˈhanəs ˈgrɛntsfʊrtnə]; born 1975 in Vienna) is an award-winning Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director and lecturer.

Petro Wodkins is a Russian artist and performer, known for a series of art happenings covered by global media.

Guerrilla art is a street art movement that first emerged in the UK, but has since spread across the world and is now established in most countries that already had developed graffiti scenes.

The Air Pirates were a group of cartoonists who created two issues of an underground comic called Air Pirates Funnies in 1971, leading to a famous lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company (then Walt Disney Productions).

monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group, founded in 1993, that defines itself as "an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science and political activism".

Negativland is an American experimental music band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (born October 12, 1985) is an American artist, activist, and freelance illustrator.

Bleeps.gr (or Bleeps) is the pseudonym used by a Greek artist.

Emergency Broadcast Network is the name of a multimedia performance group formed in 1991 that took its name from the Emergency Broadcast System.

Czech Dream (Czech: Český sen) is a 2004 documentary film directed by two Czech film directors, Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda.

Public nudity, or nude in public (NIP), refers to nudity not in an entirely private context, that is, a person appearing nude in a public place or being able to be seen nude from a public place.

Above born Tavar Zawacki is a Berlin-based international contemporary artist.

The statue of Edward Snowden, called Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument 2.

The English Disco Lovers (EDL) is a Web movement, formed as a Google bombing campaign with the intention of replacing the anti-Islamist street protest group the English Defence League as the top search engine result for "EDL".

Antediluvian Rocking Horse (formed 1994 St. Kilda, Australia) is an audio project maintained by two core artists credited as DJ2 and DJ3.

K Foundation Burn a Million Quid was an action on 23 August 1994 in which the K Foundation (an art duo consisting of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) burned cash in the amount of one million pounds sterling in a disused boathouse on the Ardfin Estate on the Scottish island of Jura.

etoy is a European digital art group formed in 1994.

Andre the Giant Has a Posse is a street art campaign based on a design by Shepard Fairey created in 1989 in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Tape-beatles (also known as Public Works) are a multi-media group that formed in Iowa City in December 1986.

Don Leicht (born 1946) is a visual artist who has worked as a painter and sculptor in the Bronx, New York City for over thirty years.

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a performance community based in New York City.

Karl Rove: Courage and Consequence is a grassroots funded compilation of rock songs released on March 3rd 2010 in anticipation of Karl Rove's similarly titled memoir.