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HANS BERNHARD
1973, Lives and works in Vienna, Johannesburg and St. Moritz

Founder of etoy.com [Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica 1996]
Founder of ubermorgen.com.

Known aliases: hans_extrem, etoy.HANS, etoy.BRAINHARD, David Arson, Dr. Andreas Bichlbauer, h_e, net_CALLBOY, Luzius Bernhard, Andy Bichlbaum,
Bart Kessner

Place of Birth: Yale University Hospital, New Haven, USA

He holds an M.F.A. in visual media from the University of applied arts in Vienna, Austria, [Prof. Peter Weibel]

Projects include the etoy.CORPORATION, etoy.com, etoy.TANKSYSTEM, the digital hijack, etoy.SHARES, etoy.TANK-17, protected by etoy, ubermorgen.com, [V]ote-auction, NAZI~LINE, bmdi.de, ipnic.org / injunction generator, etxtreme.ru, bannster.net, the white website, bartnlisa, esof ltd, AnuScan and Sleeping Baby - Playing Baby, *THE*AGENCY*

Hans lectures at conferences and Universities around the globe. His 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 with ubermorgen: Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 2001, Museum of Modern Art Vienna 2001, The Premises Gallery Johannesburg 2002, Kingdom of Piracy Online exhibition 2002, Ars Electronica 2002, Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona 2003, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, 2003, Read_me 2.4 Helsinki 2003, Konsthall Malmoe 2004, Kunsthaus Graz Gallery 2004 [Solo-Show]

Exhibitions with etoy: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 1996, Secession Vienna 1996, Ars Electronica 1996, c3 Budapest 1997, SFMoMa 1999, UCSD Gallery San Diego 1999, Blasthaus Gallery San Francisco 1999, Postmasters Gallery New York 2000, NTT Tokyo 2001, Big Torino 2002, Kunsthalle St. Gallen 2003, Arco Madrid 2004