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Known
Aliases: hans_extrem, etoy.HANS, etoy.BRAINHARD, David Arson, Dr. Andreas
Bichlbauer, h_e, net_CALLBOY, Luzius A. Bernhard, Andy Bichlbaum, Bart
Kessner. |
Visual Communications, digit Art, Art History and
Aesthetics at the University for applied Art Vienna (Austria), UCSD University
of California San Diego (Lev Manovich),
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (Peter Lunenfeld & Norman
Klein) and at the University Wuppertal (Bazon Brock). Master in fine art from
the University of applied Art Vienna. Hans is a professional artist and
creative thinker, working on art projects, researching digital networks,
exhibiting and travelling the world lecturing at conferences and Universities.
Founding member of etoy (the etoy.CORPORATION) and UBERMORGEN.COM.
"His style can be
described as a digital mix between Andy Kaufman and Jeff Koons, his actions can
be seen as underground Barney and early John Lydon, his
"Gesamtkunstwerk" has been described as pseudo duchampian and
beuyssche and his philosophy is best described in the UBERMORGEN.COM slogan:
"It's different because it is
fundamentally different!" Bruno Latour
Prix Ars Electronica:
1996 Hans Bernhard was awarded a golden Nica for ãthe digital hijack by etoyÒ,
2005 with UBERMORGEN.COM he received an Award of Distinction for the
[V]ote-auction project [ http://www.vote-auction.net ] and two
additional honorary mentions. 2006 Edith-Russ-Haus Stipendium (Euro 10.000.-)
and Winner of the 2006 Sitespecific Award. IBM-Award - Stuttgarter Filmwinter
2007, honorary mention, Share
Festival 2007.
Projects: die etoy.CORPORATION,
etoy.com, etoy.TANKSYSTEM, the digital hijack, etoy.SHARES, etoy.TANK-17,
protected by etoy, UBERMORGEN.COM, [V]ote-auction, NAZI~LINE, (mit Christoph
Schlingensief) bmdi.de, ipnic.org / injunction generator, etxtreme.ru,
bannster.net, the white website, bartnlisa, esof ltd, AnuScan, Sleeping Baby -
Playing Baby, *THE*AGENCY* for manual election recount, Webpaintings vs.
Pixelpaintings, BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR, ART FID, Psych|OS und GWEI Ð Google
Will Eat Itself, Foriginal Media Hack No. 1, MACHINIMA No. 1- No. 4, ART FID
Painting series, AnuScan Painting series..
Exhibitions:
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art Wien, The Premises
Gallery Johannesburg, Kingdom of Piracy Online exhibition, Ars Electronica,
Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Read_me 2.4
Helsinki, Konsthall Malmoe, Kunsthaus Graz Gallery, The Premises Gallery
Johannesburg, NTT ICC Tokyo, Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Ars Electronica,
[Plug:in] Basel, LISTE 05 Basel, Hartware HMKV Dortmund, Artissima, Museum of
Contemporary Art Tokyo, Secession Wien, c3 Budapest, SFMoMa, UCSD Gallery San
Diego, Blasthaus Gallery San Francisco, Postmasters Gallery New York, Big
Torino, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Arco Madrid, ISEA, Hartware Medienkunstverein
Dortmund, Overgaden Contemporary Art Institute Copenhagen, Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery Chicago,
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Prix Ars Electronica: 2005 she received a "Award of
Distinction" for [V]ote-auction, 2 honorary mentions 2001/2005. ,
IBM-Award - Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2007,
honorary mention, Share Festival 2007.
"Business-Terror-Style Bitch lizvlx; in her head, each
morning Sam Taylor-Wood meets Dandy-Andy Warhol with a toddler on his knee for
breakfast. During the course of the day she goes berserk in perl & oil and
her dirty pink&orange hair rashes through the city, her style is best
described in the UBERMORGEN.COM slogan: if you dont get help from us, please
get help somewhere" Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men
Projects include the
UBERMORGEN.COM, [V]ote-auction, 194.152.164.137, NAZI~LINE, *THE*AGENCY*,
bmdi.de, ipnic.org / injunction generator, etxtreme.ru, bannster.net, the white
website, bartnlisa, esof ltd, AnuScan, sleeping baby - playing baby,
Webpaintings vs. Pixelpaintings, BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR, ART FID, Psych|OS und
GWEI Ð Google Will Eat Itself, Foriginal Media Hack No. 1, MACHINIMA No. 1- No.
4, ART FID Painting series, AnuScan Painting series.
lizvlx lectures at conferences and universities around the
globe. Her media-portfolio includes publications from Artforum to CNN, FOX News
and CBS, from Domus to Le Monde, the New York Times and NZZ, from Neural.it via
Flashart to Chinese Morning Television and Bulgarian Newspapers.
Exhibitions:
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum , Museum of Modern Art Vienna, The Premises
Gallery Johannesburg , Kingdom of Piracy Online exhibition, Ars Electronica,
Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Read_me 2.4
Helsinki, Konsthall Malmoe , Kunsthaus Graz Gallery, NTT ICC Tokyo , Lentos
Museum of Modern Art, Ars Electronica Linz, The Premises Johannesburg,
Artissima Torino, Hartware Dortmund & LISTE 05 Basel, Hartware
Medienkunstverein Dortmund, Overgaden Contemporary Art Institute Copenhagen, Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery Chicago,
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Projects (founded
Labels/Art-Groups)
UBERMORGEN.COM
UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist group created in Vienna, Austria in 1999 by Hans Bernhard
(founder of etoy) and Lizvlx.
Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most uncatchable identities -
controversial and iconoclast - of the contemporary European techno-fineart avantgarde.
ubermorgen is a German word for "the day after tomorrow" or
"super-tomorrow". The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction
points toward an extremely expanded concept of oneÕs working materials, which
for UBERMORGEN.COM also include international rights [Legal Art], democracy and
global communication networks. French philosopher Jean Baudrillard once said
about UBERMORGEN.COM: "ubermorgen means the day after tomorrow, a slight
tip towards their aestehtic and activist vision and prejudice, they are
hardcore and radical in their actions and they are extremely strange and highly
intelligent people".
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubermorgen
Medienkunstnetz.de
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/kuenstler/ubermorgen.com/biografie/
Projects (founded
Labels/Art-Groups)
etoy
the etoy.CORPORATION is a controversial global player online
since 1994. etoy uses the corporate structure to maximize cultural value: the
final link in the value chain. for etoy the dramatic problems of globalization
are not to be solved by simply rejecting global markets, economic exchange,
drive companies, culture, individuals and politics.
by sharing
risk, resources, maintaining a strong brand and maximizing the shareholder
value, the etoy.CORPORATION seeks to explore social, cultural and financial
value. etoy.SHAREHOLDERS invest time, knowledge, and ideas (or simply finance)
etoy.OPERATIONS which focus on the overlap of entertainment, cultural, social
and economic values. etoy.SHAREHOLDERS participate in a dynamic artwork that
takes place 24 hours a day in the middle of society -- on and offline.
Quote: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/etoy/biography/
Ausgesuchte Ausstellungen
"GWEI
Ð Google Will Eat Itself"
The Premises Gallery
Johannesburg
2. - 23.4.2005
5 Overhead Projectors, 6 Diagrams Ink on Paper
mounted on 12mm chipboard, Plasma Screen
Pragmatic, diagramatic, schematic, dramatic.
A
3-dimensional representation and visualisation of the digital project GWEI -
Google Will Eat Itself. Attack-plan, Web-Structures & digital advertisment
mechanisms.
http://hansbernhard.com/X/pages/installation
About
GWEI Ð Google Will Eat Itself
We generate money by serving Google text
advertisments on our Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google
shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in
the end "we" own it! By establishing this auto-cannibalistic model we
deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a
surreal click-based economic model.
http://www.gwei.org
Selected Exhibitions
"ART
FID"
LISTE 05 Basel
(Switzerland), Artissima Turin, FabioParisArtGallery Brescia (Italy)
18.2. - 29.2.2004
ART FID was created as a product in the tense field
between fine art, new media art [net.art] and high tech. RFID (Radio Frequency
Identification) is one of "THE" leading technologies of the future.
As artists it is our intention to work on the edge of the technical revolution
with low technology tools.
The RFID-chips appear as almost organic in form, as
cellular in structure. This edition of three very similar but slightly
different RFID-chips tells us a story of bio-technology and digital technology
morphing visually into each other: The pixel is the molecule!
The piece consisted of 3 canvases and one computer
projection with a yellow scrolltext [The Computer-Animation: Scrolltext/Lauftext*]. The Text was emailed
to 12.000 Press, Art and Business contacts during ART 36 Basel.
The
installation was presented at LISTE 05 - Basel and at Artissima 12, The international fair of
contemporary art in Turin and in a Solo-Exhibition at FabioParisArtGallery,
Brescia /Italy.
http://hansbernhard.com/X/pages/painting/pages/ART_FID
http://hansbernhard.com/X/pages/installation/pages/ART_FID/lauftext/scroll1.html
Selected Exhibitions
"Our ballots are
our bombs. It feels like Money in our hands."
Lentos Kunstmuseum
(Contemporary Art Museum)
26.2. - 19.6.2005
2
Paper Sculptures, 110x90x80cm, 270.000 Miami-Dade Paper Trail Ballots, 750Kg.
Ballot No. 1 "08, Kerry/Edwards" [90.000]. Ballot No. 2 "12,
Bush/Cheney" [90.000]. Ballot No. 3 "empty" [90.000], 2 Seals
200x200x3cm.
A affirmative
concept exhibition about democracy, the U.S. of A. and their form of democracy,
their elections, ballots & election machines, power of government and media
terror.
http://hansbernhard.com/X/pages/sculpture
http://www.lentos.at/de/747_443.asp
Selected Exhibitions
"Playing Baby Ð Sleeping
Baby "
Kunsthaus Graz -
medien.kunstlabor Galerie
18.2. - 29.2.2004
Installation:
Mattress, soft brown Tissue, Chicco-Trapez, Chicco-Train [both interactive Toys
with music and light], Chicco-Keys, Softbook, Teddybear, Waterbottle, Pacifier,
various H&M dresses, silver sleeping bag, book "Pippi
Longstocking", Corolle Puppet 52cm [hand made]
The
analyses of the installation and the performance ãPlaying Baby Ð Sleeping BabyÒ
at the Kunsthaus Graz will show, that this piece of ãgenre-artÒ represents a subtle image and
action-composition with similar subtle message: it is a allegory of life.
http://www.ubermorgen.com/baby
(Web-Site mainly in German)
Selected Exhibitions
"Psych|OS - Digital Cocaine - Children of the 1980s"
NTT ICC Museum Tokio
29.4. - 03.6.2005
DVD,
Installation, 00:01:10, 2005
"We are the children of the 1980s, We are the
first internet-pop-generation. We grew up with radical Michael Milken [The King
of Junk Bonds] and mythical Michael Jackson [The King of Junk Pop].
Hans
Bernhard is loaded with 10 years of internet & tech [digital cocaine],
underground techno, hardcore drugs and net.art jet set [etoy]. His neuronal
networks and brain structures are similar to the global synthetic network he
maintained subversive activity within. And now both Hans Bernhard and The
"Network" are infected by this structural disorder.
http://www.ubermorgen.com/psychos
Selected Exhibitions
"Psych|OS
Ð Generator and IPNIC-Seal"
Academy of fine Art
Berlin (Germany
03.2. - 19.3.2006
Computer-Installation (with Digitalprint on Canvas, Unique copy, 210x210x6,5cm), 2006
The
Psych|OS Generator creates medical prescriptions. The user can select a medical
condition from the standardized WHO and U.S.A. list of mental illnesses (ICD-10
& DSM IV). The machine then generates a diagnosis and a prescription with
the list of psychotropic drugs to cure the disease.
Background: The viennese
artist duo UBERMORGEN.COM (Hans Bernhard & Lizvlx) are working on a series
of [F]original* document Generators: The first one (No. 1) was the Injunction
Generator, 2001 (www.ipnic.org),
automatically generating court orders, the second (No. 2), the
BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR, 2005 (www.ipnic.org/BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR) and now the
third one (No. 3) is the Psych|OS-Generator, 2006.
http://www.ipnic.org/exhibitions/Transmediale06/
Selected Exhibitions
"Amazon
Noir Book Incubator"
Share Festival Turin,
DEAF Rotterdam, MOCA Teipeh
2007
Amazon
Noir Book Incubator", 2006, 120x40x105cm, mixed media installation
Share,
Torino (Italy) & Laboral Gijon (Spain), Photo by Alberto Bardelli aka ramblert, Torino, 2007
Amazon Noir can be
seen in a tradition of conceptual art as well as performative arts in this case
using any platform they can find from traditional mass media, the Internet, and
the street. Looking at Copyrights and intellectual property issues on a global
scale we are also facing tremendous unbalances in having access to knowledge
and information as a basis for social, cultural and economic innovation. Alex Adriaansens
http://www.ubermorgen.com/exhibitions/2007/Share_Torino/
Projects
etoy - "the digital hijack"
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between march 31 and july 31 1996,
etoy.SOFTWARE-AGENTS automatically infiltrated the world wide web's global
search engines (lycos, infoseek, altavista, etc.) by placing over a thousand
designated keywords (porsche, startrek, bondage, selbstmord, censorship,
fassbinder, etc.) within the top 10 rankings, thereby setting up a trap for
net travelers and technology tourists. with this action, etoy demonstrated
the ÇspaceÈ behind the popular interfaces of the world wide web... |
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took control of the systematic illusion of net-quests for information.
the weak points of the internet and the twilight zone of the
medium formed the location of the action. search-servers were transformed into
a stage: etoy.UNDERGROUND FEEDING THE INFO-SPIDERS !
the scene of
the crime is open to the public and is still frequently visited by many
inquisitive users
In
1996, with ÇThe Digital HijackÈ the group ÇetoyÈ introduced an aspect into Net
art which was subsequently thematicized by numerous artists and which would
become a popular discussion platform: the questioning of supposedly flat
hierarchies by way of the specific infiltration of system-immanent
conditionalities.
The
staid problem of gaining authority not only arose for the information provider,
the user, too, was also meant to become aware of his/her necessary media
competence. At the time, the user's hijacking of him/herself was both a
technical trick as well as a legal tightrope walk. In the end, the CIA became
active as far as Austria; the Federal Ministry of Internal Security was called
in (unnecessarily). After more than 600,000 hijackings, due to an overloaded
server the ÇHijackÈ was discontinued.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/the-digital-hijack/
Projekte
[V]ote-Auction
Voteauction was a Website which offered US citizens to sell
their presidential vote to the highest bidder during the Presidential Elections
2000, Al Gore vs. G.W. Bush.
The Website was conceived by the student James Baumgartner
and then sold to the austrian business-artists Hans Bernhard (founder of etoy
[5]) and Lizvlx from UBERMORGEN.COM[1] in Austria and (V)ote-auction Inc. in
Sofia/Bulgaria [a subsidiary of the UBERMORGEN.COM group] for a undisclosed
sum. Voteauction was UBERMORGEN.COMs feature Media Hacking performance in the
year 2000.
Several US States (Missouri, Wisconsin, Chicago, Arizona,
Nevada, California, Massachusetts, New York) issued temporary restraining
orders or injunctions for alleged illegal vote trading. This led to the
shutdown of 2 domains (voteauction.com and vote-auction.com)[10]. Federal
Attorney Janet Reno, the FBI and the NSA were investigating the case to ensure
the integrity of the voting process on november 7th, 2000.
Over 2500 global and national News features in online
media, print, television and radio have been reported (including a 27 min. CNN
exclusive "Burden of Proof").
"[V]ote-Auction" is one of most risky and
paradoxically successfull projects by UBERMORGEN.COM: it is "the only
platform in the world that provide the final consumer an effective role in the
American election industry". A true interchange system that finally
"brings capitalism and democracy closer togetherÒ.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/vote-auction/
http://www.vote-auction.net
Projects
"Injunction Generator"
Injunction
Generator, Ubermorgen's legal art: With their usual controversial and
iconoclast spirit, Ubermorgen, an artist group created by Hans Bernhard
(founder of etoy) and lizvlx, realized The Injunction Generator
(www.ipnic.org), a software module which claims to generate on request legal
injunctions and personalized documentation in .rtf/.pdf format to force a site
into taking its contents offline. Carrying on with their principles of 'radical
corporative marketing strategy' and the meta-concept of the [F]original Ð
forged original document, the group has produced an effective and credible
interface which helps creating one's own documented cease-and-desist request,
which is also automatically sent to the DNS administrators, to the site's owner
and to some journalists to trick them into supporting the 'public trial'. The
project is published on the IP-NIC domain, an acronym which mimics the official
protocols (Internet Protocol - Network Information Center), revisited as
'Internet Partnership for No Internet Content'. This sarcastic provocation (a
'public shutdown service') was conceived after experiencing a similar mishap
for the [V]ote-auction project (www.vote-auction.net), which invited american
citizens to put up their vote for auction. At the time (2000) an email
injunction by an american court was sent to the swiss provider hosting the
site, who took them immediately offline even though email documents aren't
legally considered official and even though Swiss is outside of american
jurisdiction.
http://www.ipnic.org
http://runme.org/feature/read/+ipnic/+54/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunction_generator
Projects
"[F]originals
BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR,
Installation, Ars Electronica 2005
ÒAuthenticity as consensual
hallucination"
ãJust
pixels on a screen, just ink on paperÒ
The
"BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR" is an online engine that generates
individual bank statements. If you need a positive or negative bank statement,
generate it yourself! In doing so, the user is free to determine the amount and
type of deposits and credits as well as the degree of design abstraction of the
resulting document, an [F]original that manifests itself as an array of pixels
on the monitor screen.
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core theme of this project is described in the slogan "just pixels on a
screen - just ink on paper" and consolidated in the term
"authenticity as consensual hallucination" (Inke Arns). The focus
shifts from the authenticity in the time of analogue / technical reproduction (signature) towards
authenticity in the time of informational reprogramability (automatically
generated bank-statements).
In the UBERMORGEN.COM universe, this project can be seen in the
tradition of "Legal Art" and specifically the "[F]originals -
forged original documents - series. A Foriginal is always original and unique. Foriginals are
pixels on screens or substance on material [i.e. ink on paper]. [F]originals
are non pragmatic - they are absurd. They do not tell you whether they are real
or forged - there is no original but also no fully forged / faked document.
Foriginals can be human or machine generated; Foriginals are digital or analog,
foriginals are singular multiples.
http://www.ipnic.org/BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR
Projects
Psych|OS (Videoinstallation)
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In March 2002, ubermorgens Hans Bernhard experienced a manic
outbreak in South Africa. He was airlifted to Austria - General Hospital
Vienna. Two and a half years later, UBERMORGEN found video footage of his
stay at the Mental hospital. They decide to release the material unedited. "We are the children of the 1980s, We are the first
internet-pop-generation. We grew up with radical Michael Milken [The King of
Junk Bonds] and mythical Michael Jackson [The King of Junk Pop]. Hans
Bernhard is loaded with 10 years of internet & tech [digital cocaine],
underground techno, hardcore drugs and net.art jet set [etoy]. His neuronal
networks and brain structures are similar to the global synthetic network he
maintained subversive activity within. And now both Hans Bernhard and The
"Network" are infected by this structural disorder. |
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Installation is a common projection, a sensitive membrane [the screen] which
serves as a thin skin which is penetrated by light and onto which a unique
reality is projected. This membrane moves if you touch it or it curls if you
blow: the image twists. The membrane represents the human and the network - it
is hypersensitive. The sound is played quietly via speakers and very fat via
earphones. The room is bright with daylight so the mood of the viewer is
influenced by the weather outside. There is no difference to a room in a mental
hospital.
http://www.hansbernhard.com/X/pages/video/index_long.html
Projects
GWEI Ð Google Will Eat Itself
(Online, with
Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio)
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We generate money by serving Google text
advertisments on a series of hidden web-sites. With this money we automatically
buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself
- but in the end "we" own it! By establishing this auto-cannibalistic
model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them
into a surreal click-based economic model. With the current speed, it will take
approx. 202 Million years until
ãweÒ fully own Google Inc.
After this process we hand over the
common ownership of "our" Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. [Google To
The People Public Company] which distributes them back to the users (clickers)
/ public.
ãUn plan machiavŽlique...Ò La
Liberation
ãGoogle Will Eat Itself is the sort of Web-based conceptual art project that could only have been conceived somewhere between the second and third hits off somebody's brushed-steel, Bauhaus-inspired bong.Ò Village Voice