Culture+Jammers

=Famous Culture Jammers=

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Considered as one of the pioneers in Culture Jamming.

Their anti-drugs campaign ran from 1976 to the early 1990s.

A Group of young profesionals (in the 70's lawyer/doctor interns/trainee) from Australia They would spray paint billboard ads that advocated mainly tobacco and beer sales. By changing one or two letters on numerous billboards, i.e. //Go For It// to //Go Vomit// and from //Marlboro// to //It's a Bore// they helped Australia become the first developed country to ban tobacco billboard advertising.
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 * BUGA UP brigade ... from left, Don Dunoon, Chesterfield-Evans, Chapman, Greg Starkey, Andrew Zdenkowski, Bolzan and Cohen. ||

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Rick Bolzan chained himself to a Marlboro-sponsored racing car parked in the foyer of the gallery. His supporters showered the car with cigarette butts. After half an hour, gallery staff realised this was not a show, but a protest against the sponsorship of an exhibition by Philip Morris. Bolzan defended himself and won, telling the magistrate that people went to art galleries to be alarmed and affronted.

Lord Bloody, known as Rolo Mestman Tapier, became an activist after a run-in with Coles supermarkets which were trial marketing a shopping bag adorned with a cigarette ad.

His fellow protester Bill Snow still prints anti-smoking messages and places them in film canisters and then later distributes to young smokers.

="The campaign was to use humour to get our message across. I think that's why it was so successful."=

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This particular image and culture jam campaign is a very popular campaign. The sign on the man's shirt 'True colors of Benetton' is mocking that green is the only color Benetton cares about in the form of money, pulling a parody on the Benetton's existing ad campaign which had posters of people with AIDS, soldiers from Bosnia and other serious issues.