Mimikry
| Mimese
Gefaehrlicher Luxus zwischen Natur und Kultur
Graduiertenkolleg
"Zeiterfahrung und aesthetische Wahrnehmung"
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt
Hans
Bernhard [UBERMORGEN.COM]
"Scheinbar ungeniessbar"
01 .10.2005
"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!""
Bart Kessner.
"Maverick Austrian businessman." CNN
http://ubermorgen.com
http://hansbernhard.com
http://etoy.com
http://vote-auction.net
the etoy.GANG - the
first street-gang on the internet, 1994
brainhard.com & WORDWAR [1994]
brainhard.com
& WORDWAR
corporate
identity / corporate philosophy
1994-1996
tv-hijack.zip
1996
The Internet-Art-Terror
organisation etoy has hijacked a TV-Show on 7.12.96 / 2100 hours. After
their Live-Act in the Swiss TV-Infotainment Magazine "Zebra",
the etoy.AGENTS have intruded the Prime-Time Show "Benissimo"
and they controlled the Swiss TV-Reality for a few seconds. Our anonymous
etoy.AGENT has entered the stage, asked the Show-Master Bernhard Turnheer
where the way to the Internet is... he told him, that he couldnt stand
this TV-Reality anymore and that he needs to know the way to the internet...
Only after massive pressure of the etoy.LAWYER, wich was at this moment
not inside the Television Building, the 4 remaining Agents have been released
out of Custody around 2300 hours, just before a Police-Task Force arrived
at the Swiss Television Building. This Action has received massive Press-Reactions:
3 Headlines from Sunday to Tuesday... in the biggest Swiss Rainbow-Paper
"Blick". International Feed-Back from England, Norway and Italy...
leaving reality behind helicopter-action
.rm 1996
Riefenstahl was severely injured in a helicopter accident in Sudan. She
was flown back to a hospital in Munich. Meanwhile etoy.AGENTS were up
to a dada foto-tv-shooting on "glitzernde Gletscher" in switzerland
on a SFDRS assignement [swiss national television station]
the
digital hijack
1996
hijack.org
don't fucking
move - this is a digital hijack
search-engine hack
meta-refresh=0
1.5 mio internet users hijacked in 3 months
free kevin mitnick
cia / austrian secret service - house search 6 a.m.
email threats ulrike meinhof anonymous remailer
ars electronica 1996
golden nica - ars electronica 1996
-1999
etoy.TANK-SYSTEM exhibition design center linz
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etoy.TANK-SYSTEM
c3.hu/tank-system
etoy.SHARES
etoy.TANK[-17] 1999-200x
leaving
reality behind
the battle for the soul of the internet
etoy.BOOK
2002/2003 [us-edition]
amazon.de [search: " leaving reality behind"]
"leaving reality behind has everything. a court case, a cast of unforgettable characters, and a story that could only have happend during the internet insanity. a fascinating read."
UBERMORGEN.COM
:
1999-20xx
ubermorgen.com
founded
1999
artist duo lizvlx and Hans Bernhard
UBERMORGEN.COM is the author of projects such as "Ars Hack 99, Voteauction, Naziline, Injunction generator, The Agency, BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR, ART FID"
ubermorgen "we have no nationality"
Voteauction
[V]ote-auction - vote-auction.net
Seal
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legal documents
Chicago
TRO
Chicago
Complaint
Chicago
Memorandum of Law
Chicago
Preliminary Injunction
screenshot
CNN "burden of proof", 27 Min. [DVD]
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 group] for a undisclosed sum. Voteauction
was ubermorgens 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). 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 1800 global and national News features in online media, print, television
and radio have been reported (including a 27 min. CNN exclusive "Burden
of Proof")[2].
"[V]ote-Auction" is one of most risky and paradoxically successfull
projects by ubermorgen: 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 together“.
UBERMORGEN.COM exhibited the [V]ote-auction CNN tape, Voteauction-Seals and
[F]original legal Documents in the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 2001,
The Premises Gallery Johannesburg 2002, Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona
2003, Read_me 2.4 Helsinki 2003, Konsthall Malmoe 2004, Kunsthaus Graz
2004. 2005 UBERMORGEN.COM received a Prix Ars Electronica "Award of Distinction" for Voteauction
A follow up „legal art“ action called "The Injunction
Generator" [4] was awarded with a "Honorary Mention" at
the Prix Ars Electronica 2003. The Injunction Generator [4] is a artistic
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'
(Media Hacking), the artists group UBERMORGEN.COM 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'. Fall 2004, ubermorgen collaborated with Jorgen Follested
on SELLtheVOTE.COM[6] and exhibted *THE*AGENCY*
[for manual Election Recounts] in a solo-exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz,
medien.KUNSTLABOR Gallery.
THE
INJUNCTION GENERATOR
ipnic.org
ubermorgen's
legal art.
With their usual controversial and iconoclast spirit, UBERMORGEN.COM,
an artist group created by some of the members of etoy, realized The Injunction
Generator, 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', 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, 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. [Neural.it]
2004 *THE*AGENCY* [for manual Election Recounts]
*THE*AGENCY*
SEAL, Pixel on Screen
Courtesy of the artist, medien.KUNSTLABOR, Kunsthaus Graz, 2004
Gallery-Visitor votes on Florida Absentee Ballot
November 2, 2004
Foto courtesy of the artist, medien.KUNSTLABOR, Kunsthaus Graz
http://ubermorgen.com/*THE*AGENCY*/
2005 Psych|OS
http://www.hansbernhard.com/video/
Exhibition: ICC Tokyo . "Open Nature 2005, Hartware Dortmund "Vom Verschwinden" 2005
2005 hansbernhardblog
http://hansbernhard.com/hansbernhardblog
2005, Google Will Eat Itself Project.
By using Googles Ad-Sense program we subvert global advertisment processes and buy Google shares with advertisment money we get from Google. http://www.gwei.org
Voteauction - The Movie & Die Aktion / DVD
Release 04/2005, Experimental Movie, CNN Graphics 2000 & 2004 coupled with CNN Feature "Burden of proof", all materials (emails, graphics, logfiles, etc.)
2001 NAZI~LINE
in collaboration with christoph schlingensief
screenshot
1
- campaign web-site
screenshot
2 - corporate web-site
bartnlisa
kuenstlerhaus wien action, 2001
bartnlisa_khaus_ACTION_2001.mov
fuck copyright