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flash mob
form of assembling humans
performance art
art using the actions of an artist or other participants (not to be confused with performing arts)
street art
art that is public and temporary in public spaces
hacktivism
thumbnail|upright=1.2|Anarchist hacker village at a Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference, 2018 Hacktivism (or hactivism; a portmanteau of hack and activism) is the use of computer-based techniques such as hacking as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change. A form of Internet activism with roots in hacker culture and hacker ethics, its ends are often related to free speech, human rights, or freedom of information movements.
cybersquatting
Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting) is the practice of registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name, with a bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The term is derived from "squatting", which is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not own, rent, or otherwise have permission to use.
streaking
alt=|thumb|250px|upright|A streaker at the 2006 Harvard–Yale football rivalry|Harvard–Yale game in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
pieing
thumb|right|upright=1.4|Someone smashing a cream pie in a young woman’s face. thumb|240x240px|A man getting hit with a thrown pie Pieing or a pie attack is the act of throwing a pie at a person. In Britain, a pie in the context of throwing is traditionally referred to as a custard pie. An aluminium pie pan or paper plate filled with whipped cream or more typically, shaving cream can substitute for a real pie, however, bakery pies such as chocolate cream pie, banana cream pie, coconut cream pie, or lemon meringue pie are also used, especially when one desires a more messy and humiliating effect
yarn bombing
type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk
subvertising
thumb|Two billboards with the same original content; the billboard on the right is an example of subvertising after being vandalized. thumb|The ExxonMobil logo as subverted by [[Greenpeace.]]
nude recreation
kind of recreation
sousveillance
300px|thumb|Camera A is engaged in surveillance, while the person wearing camera B on their head is engaged in sousveillance. thumb|Surveillance as compared with sousveillance|300pxSousveillance ( ) is the recording of an activity by a member of the public, rather than a person or organisation in authority, typically by way of small wearable or portable personal technologies. The term, coined by Steve Mann, stems from the contrasting French words sur, meaning "above", and sous, meaning "below", i.e. "surveillance" denotes the "eye in the sky" watching from above, whereas "sousveillance" denote
broadcast signal intrusion
interference with wireless signals
egging
300px|thumb|upright=1.3|Czech politicians Jiří Paroubek (left) and Karel Březina were attacked with eggs at a rally for the 2009 European parliament election in the Czech Republic Egging is the act of throwing eggs at people or property. The eggs are usually raw, but can be hard-boiled or rotten.
John Fekner
American artist (born 1950)
détournement
thumb|A Marlboro cigarette advertisement on a billboard détourned by the group [[BUGAUP, by defacing the cowboy image and modifying the text to read "It's a bore."]]
plunderphonics
Plunderphonics is a music genre in which tracks are constructed by sampling recognizable musical works. The term was coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 in his essay "Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative", and eventually explicitly defined in the liner notes of his Grayfolded album. Plunderphonics is a form of sound collage. Oswald has described it as a referential and self-conscious practice which interrogates notions of originality and identity.
Guerrilla theatre
Form of guerrilla communication
tactical media
term coined to describe disruptive and horizontal use of media by hackers, artists and activists to challenge the status quo
list of shoe throwing incidents
Wikimedia list article
Guerrilla communication
to provoke subversive effects through interventions in the process of communication
monochrom
thumb|right|Monochrom members: Harald Homolka-List, Frank Apunkt Schneider, Anika Kronberger, Günther Friesinger, Evelyn Fürlinger, Roland Gratzer, Franz Ablinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Daniel Fabry. Image taken in Lower Austria, April 2012. thumb|Art-theory group Monochrom's office and workspace at Museumsquartier's Quartier21 (December 2018)