Artivist is a portmanteau word combining "art" and "activist". Artivism developed in recent years while the anti-globalization and antiwar protests emerged and proliferated. In most of the cases artivists attempt to push political agendas by the means of art. Yet this is not political art as it was known before, in the sense of a artworks being political. The artivist is often involved in Streetart or Urban Art, Adbusting or Subvertising. A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words. ... Resources ArtLex. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

In some cases, Paris in 2003 for instance, artivists were arrested for acts of political art that verged on property destruction. A typical short term goal of artivists is to reclaim public space, especially by subvertising or destroying ads in urban areas or city transportation systems. Nevertheless artivists engage in different media like the internet not only for actions which could be described as hacktivism. Hacktivism is the writing of code, or otherwise manipulating bits, to promote political ideology. ...

Often the acts of artivists can be refererred to as part of the larger concept of Culture jamming. Culture jamming is the act of using existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original mediums communication method. ...

See also

• Avant-garde
• Whirl-Mart

A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Whirl-Mart is a culture jamming ritual aimed at retail superstores and described by participants as art and action. ...

External links

• The Artivist Film Festival Official Site