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UBERMORGEN.COM
Foriginal Media Hack No. 2, 2007

Foriginal Media Hack No. 2
00:00:42, 3,3 MB, .mov format
Courtesy Fabio Paris Art Gallery ( * )




THE VIDEO

youtube.com ( * )
video.google.com ( * )

DESCRIPTION

The beating took place in Rostock during the night of the major riots, June 2, 2007, Saturday. The involved police officers beat up a demonstrator in a wheelchair. Lizvlx from UBERMORGEN.COM states that "This is the worst double-header scenario i have ever seen, police violence and artistic performance melted together in a unique way, ugly!". "This new action video rocks" says Hans Bernhard from UBERMORGEN.COM, "it demonstrates the exchangeability of violence - our speciality is to deliver an extra portion of violence to already very brutal environments. We overaffirm the Madman theory"

STRATEGY

Pure Media Hacking: No ethics, no content, no message. With the action „Foriginal Media Hack No. 2 “ we follow a simple instruction on how to infiltrate mass media with low-tech instruments (email, mobile-phones, web/blog) and ambiguous data. This action is an experiment within this conceptual setting. It is a amalgamation of fact and fiction.

FORIGINAL MEDIA HACK NO 1

Project Web-Site ( * )

AUTHORS

UBERMORGEN.COM ( * ) specializes in Media Hacking. Their portfolio includes big time actions such as „Vote-Auction“ and the „digital hijack“ by etoy. The product of such actions is the documentation (emails, logfiles, websites, press- and blog-features). UBERMORGEN.COM captures this self-inflicted mass media storm by digitally manipulating images and texts and rerouting them back into the mass media; and by physically transforming data into foriginal objects (i.e. Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, Installations). Mazzotti Action is a globally acting Stunt-Team based in Berlin ("V for Vendetta" by the Wachowski Bros and Oscar winning movies "The Pianist" by Roman Polanski and "Das Leben der Anderen" by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck).

CREDITS

Mazzotti Action ( * )
nictoglobe.com ( * )
Berliner Gazette ( * )