Response to Mark Dery’s Culture Jamming article (Living in the Empire of Signs)

In Dery's article, I felt that although this article felt somewhat dated in terms of it's relevancy to issues, events and themes now in United States American culture, that the spirit of challenging normatives within society are apparent in relation to revolutionary ways of looking at the world cramming us with information and advertisements and feeding us what we are to do and think. I felt that him including the "Ant Farm" group was good in terms of using them as examples of performance art and challenging mass media and what they are telling the public. I feel that culture jamming is a great way of challenging people to look beyond what they are being told and artists are using this to their advantage to educate and challenging thoughts about art. The movements of post-modernism and looking at art in different ways is no longer new and I felt that this article does expand on it, but nowadays artists are taking it further than before.