HANS
BERNHARD
Connessioni Leggendarie
Milan
04/11/2005
Definitions:
Initially
i have to say, that in my artistic practice the difference between fact and
fiction is inexistent. Since the beginning Ð especially through excessive drug
abuse and due to the fact that i worked within a cult-like-collective, my
memories are like a sauce... and since then the fact-fiction mix is a fix
element of my artistic work.
But now,
lets start with the dry part, the sooner we get over the boring definitions,
the faster we can hear about the juicy projects...
Media Hacking is generally described very vaguely as
manipulation of media technology. A more specific definition is the massive
intrusion into mass media channels with standard technology such as email or
mobile communications, mobile phones, etc.. With such a simple modus operandi Ð
in the end only courage, intelligence and basic know how with technology is
necessary Ð we can achieve enormous reach and frequency in this age of the
total networked space. Popular media hacking projects are the ãToywarÒ from
etoy and ãVote-auctionÒ from UBERMORGEN.COM which i will talk about today.
The
digital actionism must be understood in the tradition of the viennese
actionism. It describes the intuitive transposition of the principles of
actionism into the digital. The created identities Ð corporate and collective Ð
become the artistic field of expression and extreme forms of aestehtics Ð for example
pure communication Ð moves to the center and therefore the conventional art
term is smashed, immediately re-sorted and rebuilt. The actions are documented
by media coverage, emails and logfiles. The weaknesses of the existing systems
are discovered within no time, elegant legal or half-legal solutions are
prefereable to any illegal action. Illegality eliminates the chance to work
freely and to publish openly.
Digital
actionism means free radicals, experiments on the market of attention Ð the
global mass media news-channels, for example CNN. By using contemporary
low-tech tools, live generated techno-ethics within the digital
peering-networks, legal expertise and psychological transformation of the
technological impact into the art of the 21st century, some of the feature
projects are the digital hijack by etoy and the injunction generator by
UBERMORGEN.COM, which we are also going to talk about today.
The ãhanging inside the networkÒ, to be connected to
millions and millions of invisible channels, the sensation of beeing a thin
membrane within the self-inflicted mass meda storm... thats where it happens.
Playground is the whole body of the ãActionistÒ and especially the Head. It
vibrates, it becomes threatening, it accelerates, the communication gets out of control and the network
suddenly turns into a global menace.
"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], mass media
hacking, underground techno, hardcore [illegal] drugs, rock&roll lifestyle
and net.art jet set [etoy]. His neuronal networks and brain structures are similar
to the global synthetic network he helped build up and maintained subversive
activity within. And now they are "infected" by a manic-depression
[WHO ICD-10, F31.1.], both Hans Bernhard and The "Network" are
infected by this structural disorder. Waves of mania and depression are running
through the technical, social and economic structures. Contemporary high-tech
societies deal with hardcore brains using bio-chemical "agents" to
control the internal information flow, we call them psychotropic drugs. Hans
Bernhard was legally sloshed by Zyprexa¨, Temesta¨, Dominal¨, Depakine¨,
Neurotop¨. But how can we treat a mentally ill global network?"
The whole
mental illness experience is visible in a video called ãPsych|OsÒ, released
2005 by UBERMORGEN.COM. One hour footage material showing Hans Bernhard inside
the mental hospital in Vienna, raw and unedited. The video was exhibited in
large scaled installations in Tokyo and Dortmund and it will go into global
distribution 2006.
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Our images are similar to a Temesta-Aquarium Ð they help
to relax. The shock marketing of the UBERMORGEN.COM group was transformed. Chic
marketing: a time-delayed style implant. Since many years, Hans Bernhard
operates within a fast living mass media feedback network. Real-time living as
antitheses to the american fast food trash culture consisting of re-runs from
the 50s to the 90s, in the fields of the culinary, the entertainment, the
biological and the infrastructural.
As part of a pulsating technological media network, our
actions (digital actionism, media hacking, legal art, Foriginals, digital art,
net.art) are referring to the autonomous nervous system and its functions. The
pain, the curiousity, the speed creates states of intoxication which lead to
intuitive reactions. Early training with Lsd, Xtc, etoy, UBERMORGEN, Mescalin
and other Drugs and Cults have helped to stay out of permanent psychoses and
gave me the tools, the experience and the overview to drive a 500 miles per
hour corporate-riot vehicle through the 3-dimensional-city traffic at rush
hour without gravity.
Negative Affirmation: This is what Bazon Brock understands
not as 100% affirmation but the 150% exaggerated radicalized formulation of
this demand. Through the dramatic increase of affirmation, the absurdity of
many declarations becomes visible. Now a so called tilting-effect takes place.
As an example we could quote the ãwork-to-ruleÒ. Each organization which stands
100% to their own rules will come to a halt of operations in no time. The
affirmation strategy is beeing used by many artists to destroy claims within
their logic of justification. Sadly, often it is not recognized that
affirmative strategies can not be used convincingly in all fields of action. In fields
where reality itself has thematized ist borderlines of existence, affirmation
can not create the necessary aesthetic difference anymore and therefore can not
produce a tilting-effect.
Now we
move from the definitions to the projects and we start with
etoy
or, the
etoy.CORPORATION
etoy
appeared as a multinational corporation since their foundation in 1994. At this
time, for artists and artist groups like etoy it was possible to appear exactly
the same way as real global corporations such coca-cola or microsoft. This was
due to the Internet, the web. Online, everything looked the same, grey
Web-Sites with simple text and images. So we saw the opportunity and started to
design a virtual global corporation
with corporate identity, a online office, a virtual homebase for the
etoy.AGENTS and we emmigrated to the internet in 1994.
At the
same time, and this is the nice thing about the internet, it is possible to
exist parallel as a underground brand, we were: "first boy-group on the internet" or "the
first street gang on the internet" some how we were ãdigital punksÒ...
etoy was
organized like a formula-1 team. Highly efficient, strongly hierarchical and
hard towards the inside, but very high-tech, glamour and stylish to the
outside.
The corporate
identity was our central element, although we initially misunderstood the
concept of corporate identity as pure external instruments, intuitively we
built a perfect CI from the inside, from the core to the outside. The exterior
view was highly stylized, in keeping with the program, the seven etoy.AGENTS
make their appearance in the same look, and the same tools are always used:
this principle emphasizes how the etoy.MEMBERS are interchangeable, everyone is
everyone, everywhere, leaving reality behind ... The Look and accessoires: The orange crew jacket is the
identifying feature No. 1. Standard overalls and a black suit are required
items in the luggage of all etoy.AGENTS, just like the hand-held computer
Psion, Serie 33 for ensuring minimal communication. Everything was defined,
from the etoy.LOGO to the etoy.SLOGANS, from the hairdo (bald-heads) to the
colors of the boots we were wearing and the contact with women and girl-friends
was standardized as well as the exact way of how to associate with journalists.
Excerpts from the program: run / jump / shoot and shout... for the "digital generation" ! communication and production via Internet, reality emigration, digital existence. flashing into the future! The limitations of the digital world are scanned and extended through the excessive and associative use of technology. always online - sometimes lost Ð please dont forget, this first phase was during 1994-1996, so a very early internet/web moment.
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Why did
etoy look for inner and outside similarities to global corporations? For us it
was a logic consequence from the globalization of corporate europe, asia and
america which we intuitively started to process and to play around in
affirmative ways. The combination of drugs, internet-technology, techno-music
and global corporations gave us an ultimate mix for our art-game and we were
free to experiment on a global level, we started to cross borders of perception
and reality and were sucked into the gigantic universe of THE NETWORK.
etoy Ð
the cult.
Inside,
in the deep inside, etoy was a cult. Towards the outside this was not visible
and it was never communicated, but one could feel it. There was a certain
tension and there were very strange vibes around the etoy.AGENTS.
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, the franco-swiss philosopher was a main thinker in his time and his political ideas strongly
influenced the French
Revolution. One of his central statements on the building of
democracy was that every citizen has the absolut right to be heard, to
influence the way society and the governement should be and to then vote on it.
But the most importent element of this theory of governement is, that after the
moment the decision was made collectively, democratically, each citizen has to
obey the rules absolutely. If he or she does not obey, the punishment will be merciless
(including the death penality). So he designed a new form of absolutism in the
name of democracy, at least thats how i interpret it.
Now, why
do i mention this. Because etoy has developed an exact copy of this system 200
years after Rousseau, without knowing about him, his theory and about the
french revolution. We developed a very similar system for ourselves and pushed it to the extreme. We were
organized basis-democratic, but as soon as a rule was implemented, every
etoy.AGENT had to obey 100%, no discussions, no exception. Punishments were
hardcore. We had ever changing models of self organisation and in combination
with being Internet-Test pilots on LSD, it was a very exhausting process, 24/7
etoy, for years and years...
To relax,
i show you a real-live TV event. A tv-hijack during prime-time. We were invited
to do a late afternoon teenager TV-Show (We did a etoy.Music Gig, some dancing)
and in the next studio preparations for the biggest TV-Show of the year were
ongoing. We sent in one etoy.AGENT with a very simple task: Go to Table no. 13,
sit down, wait until the show starts, wait 15 Minutes, wait for a good
opportunity, go on stage, say something, go off stage, be quick and dissappear.
See the video of the show with the police president of the city of zurich and
the mayor of zurich in the studio, they are just giving away 1 million swiss
francs...
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The
digital hijack
This is one of the feature actions, probably the best action of etoy. 1.5 mio
people hijacked from search engines over a period of 4 months. [30 mio. people
online 1996!], immediately we ran into troubles with the US-secret service, the
CIA, were censored by the University of Vienna and my appartement in Vienna was
house-searched by the austrian secret service.
The
Digital Hijack was an act of deliberate sabotage of one of the most important
tools for the common Internet user: the search engine. In the first days of the
Internet age, it was one of the most relevant tools for creating hierarchy
within the information you could get on the Internet and an instrument of
control and regulation of your behaviour, as it still is today (i will talk
about another search-engine related project today, Google Will eat itself,
later on).
With this
1996 action, lasting four months, etoy demonstrated the "space"
behind the popular interfaces of the World Wide Web. The weak points in the
system and the twilight zone of the medium formed the place of action.
Search-server databases became a stage for self-presentation. etoy.SOFTWARE
AGENTS controlled the systematic illusion and the hijack of net-travellers:
250.000 art-hostages in March 1996. "The technology-tourist is evasively
assimilated into a trap configured by the etoy.GANG. In this labyrinth, the
fascination of manipulating and hacking the search systems becomes The
Story." The "digital hijack" project was terminated after the
1.5 millionth hijacking, because the etoy.486-WEBSERVERS could no longer cope
with the extreme amount of traffic (as many as 50.000 users every day). The
software agents were officially withdrawn from the search engines at the end of
July 1996 ... some of them could not be rescued ...The scene of the crime is
open to the public and is still frequently visited by many inquisitive users.
The
software agent ÇIvanaÈ traveled through the Net both to filter the search
inquiries most frequently entered into the search engines common at the
timeÑsuch as Infoseek, Alta Vista, Inktomi, or Webcrawler (Google was not
established until 1998)Ñand to select the keywords on those sites that
contained the best search results. The result of this automated spying was that
programmers obtained detailed instructions for the specific manipulation of the
sites searched for. ÇIvanaÈ independently generated similar Web sites: the
search engines listed these duplicates instead of the information being
searched for at the top. If one selected the results, one was redirected to the
Çdigital hiajckÈ sites. The last stop on this forced journey was a Web site
with the sentence: ÇDon't fucking move. This is a digital Hijack!È The
difference to previous and most of the subsequent Net artworks lies in the
Çsystem hackÈ approach: instead of a server or a server grid, the system
consisting of the interplay of search engine, Web site (keywords), and user
behavior was circumvented and thus at the point in time of its emergence, a new
complexity was achieved in the critical treatment of the information medium
ãInternetÒ.
1996 etoy
won the prestigous Prix Ars Electronica, the Oscar for Media Art. Due to this
fact we were now lifted into the spotlights and we intensified our role-plays
and our cult. We lived a rock-star life, we destroyed hotel-rooms and took LSD
& used mirrored sunglasses for
press interviews...
etoy.SHARES
the etoy.CORPORATION, officially incorporated 1994, has rapidly developed into a controversial market leader in the field of experimental internet entertainment and art. the etoy.CORPORATION is currently owned by more than 2,000 etoy.SHAREHOLDERS who control and own the corporate sculpture etoy. The etoy.CORPORATION does not sell art-objects. etoy only sells itself in the form of etoy.SHARES. all 640,000 etoy.SHARE-UNITS are available on the international art market and equal 100% of the etoy.MARKET-CAP. Investments are not focused on financial profits, but rather on cultural ones. etoy plays with the overlap of commercial, social and cultural value systems. Social values (i.e. solidarity, love, security) and cultural values (i.e. art, luxury, fashion, sex) are eventually re-coded and transferred into the commercial value system. By twisting methods, meanings and realities the etoy.CORPORATION engages in form of Òsurface playÓ. Unlike other corporations etoy burns investment capital to create cultural capital. etoy.AGENTS and INVESTORS are interested in playing with capital on a cultural playground. This high risk art-operation manipulates symbols & values: expanding and dissolving terms such as ÔartÕ and Ôbusiness.Õ etoy generates impact by engaging todayÕs most dominant social issues: value, commerce and globalization.
As a
reaction to a law suit against the 7 founding members of etoy and to the
disconnection of the web-site etoy.com initiated by the U.S. toy-seller eToys
Inc., a comunity of net.activists centered around the activist group RTMark Ð
today The Yes Men - built up a solidarity fonds and the Toywar-platform: the
delcared intention was to destroy the toy-company eToys. The main issue was to
pull down the value of the eToys-shares as fast and as far as possible. In the
following weeks, activists attacked the Web-Site of eToys with different means
(virtual Sit-Ins, etc.), the following loss of 70% of the eToys share-value on
Nasdaq was partially claimed by these actions. The Toywar Web-site was a
symbolic battleground, a online-solidarity game, in which the supporters of
etoy could parade in the form of playmobil figures, avatars armed with virtual
weapons. The announcement of the game read as following: Your opponents: ãeToys
and its shareholders Ð as long as they still own shares. The stakes: art, free
expression and life on the Internet.Ò The pro-etoy-community was visualized
through 1798 avatars at the height of the campaign, taking position on the
web-site. etoy and RTMark opposed the usually imageless, structural violence
strategies of the economy of the net with a strategy that visualized exactly
this imageless violence. After 3 months eToys withdrew the law suit against the
artist group, probably because of the massive backlash eToys.com experienced.
The
BOOK about etoy
The whole
etoy.STORY was written up in a very good book published by HarperCollins in a
U.K. and US edition. It is a thriller about etoy during the internet boom
decade, a tense look at the social, technological and artistic environment. The
book was written by Adam Wishart, a BBC documentary filmer and Regula Bochsler,
a historian. They traveled around the globe and made over 100 interviews to
take a broad look on the happenings around etoy.
UBERMORGEN.COM
is an artist duo consisting of lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. UBERMORGEN.COM works with accidents and Trash from
Net.Art. We operate at the edge of the law and are specialized in ãLegal ArtÒ,
ãMedia HackingÒ, ãDigital ActionismÒ and ãNegative AffirmationÒ.
A quote
from french philosopher jean baudrillard in Le Monde: "ubermorgen means
the day after tomorrow, a slight tip towards their aesthetic and activist
vision and prejudice, they are hardcore and radical in their actions and they
are extremely strange and highly intelligent people."
First i
will talk about two current projects, the Google Will Eat Itself Project and
the Foriginals, including the first foriginal-project, the Injunction
generator. Then, to finish up the lecture we will have a close look at
UBERMORGEN.COMs feature action 2000, the Vote-auction-Project and the
affirmative action which resulted from Vote-auction, and to top this i will
show you a piece of the 30 Min. CNN feature about the vote-auction project.
But
first, lets start with a present project...
How does it work...
We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on
a series of our own Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google
shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! So, Google eats itself - but
in the end "we" own it! Thats the whole trick...
Now, by establishing this model we deconstruct the new
global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based
economic model.
After this whole 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.
GWEI.org is a show-case and to unveil a total monopoly of
information [Google search-engine & added services], a weakness of the new
global advertisment system and the renaissance of the "new economic bubble" -
"reality" is, Google is currently valued more than all Swiss Banks
together (sic). Let's open their goldmine to the people. Google's position is predominant in the same moment it enters a
new business field with a new service. It's the Google effect: creating
consensus on a new business, even if it instantly got the predominant position.
GTTP Ltd. currently owns 39 Google Class A
Shares [valued 300 USD] - so we earned around USD 12K since we started in march
2005, our hidden sites are slowly but steadily generating income. As it is very
nicely predicted in a Village Voice article about GWEI, at this speed it will
take us around 23 Million years to buy all Google Shares. And right now, Google
issued even more stock, but... "The greatest enemy of such a giant is not
another giant. It's the parasite. If enough parasitites would suck small amount
of money..."
Now to another contemporary work of
UBERMORGEN, this is more like a meta-concept we are working on since 4 or
5 years.
The [F]originals
Authenticity as consensual hallucination
ãJust
Pixels on a screen,
just ink
on paperÒ
Based on two central projects which we will talk about
later on... ("[V]ote-auction.com", 2000, and the "Injunction
Generator", 2001) ... UBERMORGEN.COM coined the term [F]original.
UBERMORGEN.COM calls every law suit, every injunction, every document, every
legal paper or court order a foriginal Ð a combination of ãto forgeÒ and
ãoriginalÒ. This neologism points out to the interwinding of fact and fiction and
to a significantly expanded understanding of UBERMORGEN.COMs working material,
which includes international law, democracy and global communications
(Input-Feedback-Loops). On the other hand, UBERMORGEN.COM attacks the
affirmative production of foriginals by showing their existence in our daily
live. Foriginals claim
authenticity, but after having a closer look they prove to be nothing
else than a consensual hallucination (this ãconsensual hallucinationÒ is part
of the famous definition of Cyberspace by William Gibson from the year 1984 in
his publication "Neuromancer").
All documents which are not ãoriginalsÒ in the narrow sense, which are
for example ãmachine madeÒ or ãcount without signatureÒ, can be called
Foriginals. Finally such ãforiginalÒ documents are nothing else than pixels on
a screen respectively ink on paper. UBERMORGEN.COM suggests that these machine
or software generated documents could look very differently. One of the
examples is the BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR, The
BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR is an online engine that generates individual bank
statements. Each online user (or mueseum visitor) can enter his personal data
and he/she will get a automatically generated BANKSTATEMENT. This is an
evolution of the injunction generator, which we will talk about right now...
Ubermorgen's legal art. With the usual controversial and
iconoclast spirit, Ubermorgen, 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 the 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.
[V]ote-Auction
is a classic ãMedia HackÒ and extreme ãDigital ActionismÒ by UBERMORGEN.COM,
pure media madness and judical troubles over a intense period of 4 months. What
was it all about: During the presidential elections 2000, Al Gore und G.W.
Bush, an art
student (James Baumgartner) opened a Web-Site under the name voteauction.com for
selling and buying of individual votes during the presidential election.
The
project almost immediately went out of control. The New York Election Committee
and the FBI interfered and James Baumgartner sold the Web-Site to
UBERMORGEN.COM for a undisclosed sum.
Now
because UBERMORGEN.COM operated from Bulgaria and Austria, they were outside of
US-jurisdiction (in europe it is not illegal to buy and sell US-votes, but it
is illegal to do so in the US). Because of this fact UBERMORGEN.COM could push
the project to the outmost limits. Within no time 14 District Attorneys, the
FBI, the CIA, the NSA and Federal Attorney Janet Reno were investigating the
case. UBERMORGEN.COM were interviewd up to 30 times per day by print and online
media, tv and radio stations. Over 2500 global media clippings were counted
after the project.
UBERMORGEN.COM
was sued 4x, 3x because of illegal selling and buying of votes and once because
of wrong promises (consumer fraud). This is interesting insofar, as
UBERMORGEN.COM was constantly accused of not publishing this Media Hack as a
FAKE, as a internet performance, as a media stunt. But for us this revelation
would have rendered the whole action senseless, because the clue was to keep
the audience insecure about the aim of the project. In interviews,
UBERMORGEN.COM constantly claimed to be eastern european businesspeople trying
to financially and mentally exploit the american voting market.
And that
was correct, everything UBERMORGEN actually did was to combine the basic
principles of the greatest democracy on earth: capitalism and democracy.
Therefore the slogan of the whole action was: ãbringing capitalism and
democracy closer togetherÒ
UBERMORGEN.COM
operated with affirmative strategies. Bazon Brock coined the term ãnegative
affirmationÒ, meaning the 150% agreement, the total super-affirmation. And we
only pushed the bringing togehter of capitalism and democracy to the next
level, the logical next step of the evolution of US-american society, only
prevented by historical laws about individual selling and buying of votes. In
other areas of society, privatisation and the bringing on the market already
happend Ð for example the U.S. correctional industry (Prisons).
But how
did Vote-Auction actually appear in public? The most important element was
through the press, the media. Through them, the project had a global voice of
unknown dimensions. UBERMORGEN.COM estimates that over 500 million people were
reached.
CNN
especially broadcasted a 30 minutes show, including 7 lawyers, 2 technicians
and a politician to discuss whether the project was a real threat to the
integrity of the U.S. election or wheter it was a political satire Ð and at the
end of the show they did not come to a conclusion.
A Quote
from Flash Art Magazine: "There are not many artists who can present live
action and the documentation, in one piece, of an artwork in the form of a
videotape containing a 27 minute broadcast from CNN"
But, most
important there Ð through the media strategy of Voteauction, they Ð the enemy
(the press but also the legal system) were not able to determine the role of
Vote-auction because the press-speaker used communications strategies from the political
and corporate world Ð saying nothing by talking a lot.
Now this
insecurity concerning the motivation behind Voteauction was even more dramatic
for State Attorneys investigating the case. This insecurity cost the
governement of the United States millions of dollars, because the judical
system was working non-stop issueing temporary injunctions and other court
orders. UBERMORGEN.COM received over 700 kilograms in court material by UPS and
Fedex over this 4 months period. Their task was to protect the integrity of the
voting process Ð so the judical apparatus had to defend the system and fight
back as hard as possible.
Very
important as well is the quality of investigative journalism. No journalist has
revealed UBERMORGEN.COMs true identities during the whole campaign, although
they have not been covered up, except that different/wrong names were given out
Ð but online you could easily track back the true names and addresses and much
more. It is amazing how easy it is to penetrate the global mass media networks
with a good story Ð if you are there at the right time.
UBERMORGEN.COM
exploits products from such projects, for example the CNN video is shown at
lectures and in galleries and museums around the globe as an art object,
further objects are the ãlegal documentsÒ, the injunctions. They call it ãlegal
artÒ. Such Foriginals are shown in galleries and museums as well.
So, to
come to an end.. my final remarks...
Essential
for this kind of projects, there is no underlying ideology or political task
connected, and this is true and counts for all the projects.. from etoy to
UBERMORGEN.COM.... UBERMORGEN.COM does not care who is president of the united
states, it does not care wheter the voting process is corrupt or not, it does
not care if corporation X uses child labour or not, etc. UBERMORGEN.COM does
basic ãfreestyleÒ research, we experiment live within the networks, we invent
stories and infiltrate the media, work with the feedback-loops of such stories
and bounce them back into the media and the networks (spinning), we can observe
these processes as participants and as non-precise researchers. There is no
goal, this is basic research in the area of the art of communications, we call
it ãDigital ActionismÒ or ãMedia HackingÒ.
Thats all from me in terms of talking, lets
have a look at the CNN video now...
Vote-Auction
Video