summary of projects and possible cells

OK, here are the projects so far summarized, with possible cell members as either "main" or "other contributors"...please add comments to the post, or start new project-specific threads so we can finally define clearly what everyone is doing...

Everyone needs a main project and other intersections with other projects to which you can contribute some technical or theoretical expertise. Some of these will involve culture jamming at large, others will involve physical interventions of various kinds.

I've combined a few of the project ideas that seemed to share basic motivations.

1. Strategies to curtail activist fatigue / sharing knowledge – how to properly articulate the problems and possible solutions without betraying the complexity of any social situation - setting up two rooms, one for disaffected activists, the other for those who have spent too much time in academia (out of touch with the real world), how does one articulate the situation and stimulate action in both contexts?

Main: Melissa
Other contributors:

2. Restricted freedom – physicalizing the virtual could be part of this – we’re talking about culture jamming, design of signage, hacks, graffiti, détourned billboards, "out-of-order" signs - could also be combined with "concerted physical viral alteration of advertisements" and "viral marketing campaign to stop the spread of spam" (a strategy used to draw attention to its own mechanisms) - this could be combined with other types of viral campaigns...

Main: Charisse, Phil, Anahita (Kristen)
Other contributors: Melissa, Jared, Ryan

3. Corporate reactions to activist resistance / bad press , developing causes that corporations can endorse / analysis of the way "good causes" are conceptualized / framed (i.e. rent-a-negro) --- Can this be applied to the creation of political parties as well?

Main: Owen, Simon, Melissa
Other contributors: ?

4. Facebook infiltration / analysis / exposure - setting up a fake site, creating the manipulations of content, then bringing these things to the surface (de-virtualizing them?). Invisible theatre closed loop will be one of the possible physical embodiments of this project.

Main: Jared, Phil, Kristen
Other contributors: Owen, Rebecca

5. Cell phone manipulations/hacks. Possibilities: scrambling cell phone signals, sending text messages when the phone user enters a certain zone (mall store?) – can be blended with theatrical elements – somewhat related to the flash mob idea – probably adopted a localized approach (to avoid easy detection by authorities). Some in charge of technical research, others to implement these strategies in real locations (via an invisible theatre (Boal) kind of strategy).

Main: Oskar (technical)
Other contributors: Anahita, Jared, Simon, Nicole, Phil?

6. "unbeknownst" - using internet stream of surveillance cameras as material - invasion of privacy - society of the panopticon...

Main: Braydon
Other contributors:

7. The aestheticization of the non-aesthetic (turning reviews into art) - the re-appropriation of everyday life as a locus for creative action

8. Viral logo campaign highlighting Canadian intervention into Afghanistan (Anahita)

9. Modifying the spectacular space of the internet (shift-space) - creating filters superimposed on corporate websites (Owen)

10. Deconstructing linkages between homelessness and advertising (Simon)