READ_ME 2.3 FESTIVAL, HELSINKI / FINLAND, MAY 30-31, 2003 http://m-cult.org/read_me - first published as lecture on the conference and on http://www.hansbernhard.com, may 2003 - abstract - 2] UBERMORGEN "THE INJUNCTION GENERATOR AND [V]OTE-AUCTION" [V]ote-auction [voteauction] 2000, bringing capitalism and democrazy closer together. during the presidential elections g.w. bush vs. al gore, ubermorgen and james baumgartner ran a business buying and auctioning votes via the internet: http://www.vote-auction.net . over 2500 news clippings global, 14 law suits, fbi, nsa, cia, janet reno and state attorneys investigated the case. listen to the exciting action-story and see a CNN 30 min. special about voteauction. you won't believe your eyes! as the contemporary legal art followup, we will give you in-depth background information on the notorious "INJUNCTION GENERATOR" [ http://www.ipnic.org , http://www.runme.org/project/+ipnic/ ] and the soft-ware we use to automatically deliver such court orders [media hacking, shock marketing, fine art, ex-net.art]. ubermorgen is thinking about a bio, word of mouth came from the streets . our way of looking at software and thinking about it has mutated over the last 10 years. we would like to share this with you! [ http://www.ubermorgen.com ] - http://www.m-cult.org/read_me/program.php Saturday, May 31, 16.00h Guerrilla Engineering. Uninvited Interventions Media activism is not at all a new phenomenon, but enhanced by digital technology and the power of the Internet it seems to have reached a new level, where an individual can be as strong and visible as a corporation or a virus; and where a simple and elegant hack can generate a lot of media buzz. - text - 2] UBERMORGEN "THE INJUNCTION GENERATOR AND [V]OTE-AUCTION" -ca. 60 min., davon ca. 30 min. cnn-video!!! -content-support, person who navigates the web-sites we are currently talking about. INTRO on request of alexei, i would like to present you our internet-pop smash-hit 2000, [V]ote-auction [voteauction], the vote-selling and auctioning platform invented by american art student james baumgartner and bought by ubermorgen, the eastern european hardcore business company. THE STORY ... can be told from millions of viewpoints. it is a thriller, a tech-thriller, a politics-thriller, a legal thriller, a internet-thriller, a software-thriller ... the tension between maverick businessman hans bernhard [myself], radical business frontcoder lizvlx and the U.S. authorities including the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, Janet Reno and other 13 state attorneys have risen to a level unknown before. during august to november 2000, HANS BERNHARD, SILVER SERVER, james baumgartner, lizvlx, maria e. haas, luzius a. bernhard, chris mutter and oskar obereder were spammed with foriginal documents by U.S. institutions and courts. daily FEDEX and UPS deliveries, 100s of pages through fax and telephone terror by court assistants, dns registrars, police and security forces were just part of the experiment of bringing capitalism and democracy closer togehter during the U.S. presidential elections 2000, al bush against g.w. gore, al gore against g.w. bush. the main goal of the attacks by or via the courts was to shut down the web-site voteauction.com, then to shut-down vote-auction.com and later on to have us remove the web-site from the ip-address, so on election day, no [V]ote-auction auction would take place on the net. this was so important to the U.S. elections, because the integrity of the voting process shall not be in danger, as we could watch later on in florida, it really does pose serious threats to U.S. democracy. but read more about the action, the american election system and the experiment carried out by james baumgartner and ubermorgen in the press section, see the original web-sites, etc... [F]ORIGINALS massive amounts of paper foriginals and legal documents are stashed away in the ubermorgen safe in vienna / austria and in zurich / switzerland. these materials will gain value over time, like bottles from a very very good wine year. the foriginals and documents will only be shown at exclusive exhibits and will only be sold to exquisite collectors, respected business people or international legal specialists, willing to taste the bitter-sweet touch of our dangerous fight against very powerful U.S. institutions and services. *** CNN "burden of proof: democracy on the block", 30 min. [including commercials!] IPNIC.ORG TO FINISH OFF... i would like to show you a fine art piece of ubermorgen, released this year 2003 in april. it consists of a painting in the form of a non-functional web-site called AnuScan Inc. http://www.anuscan.com. here we paint the picture with photoshop and simple-html [without links]. it tells the story of a company extending the fields of iris-scans to anus-scans, a tool to securely identify human beings by scanning the anuses. another one of our digital paintings is ekmrz, our vision of e-commerce software from 2001, it can be found under the url http://www.ekmrz.cx INJUNCTION GENERATOR http://www.runme.org/project/+ipnic/ [V]ote-auction http://www.vote-auction.net http://dmoz.org/Society/Activism/Media/Culture_Jamming/Vote_Auctions/ others http://www.ekmrz.cx - READ_ME 2.3 is a festival of software art that explores the territory between art and software culture. Read_me 2.3 draws connections between histories and practices in both software culture and art, and aims at creating an extended context, against which software art may be mapped. READ_ME 2.3 is the second edition of Read_Me, the first festival dedicated entirely to the phenomena of software art. It will take place on May 30-31, 2003 in Helsinki. Read_me 1.2 was held in Moscow in May 2002. READ_ME 2.3 continues with the open structure of Read_me: all projects are submitted on-line to a publicly accessible database. However, the second Read_me edition has logically developed this idea further: the simple database has turned into the software art repository Runme.org. All projects, submitted to Runme.org up to the READ_ME 2.3 deadline (1st of March) will be reviewed by a collective of "experts" and the best ones will be presented on the READ_ME 2.3 event. However, Runme.org will continue accepting projects on an ongoing basis. Projects entered after the deadline will be considered as entries to the future Read_me festivals. READ_ME 2.3 is not a competition in the traditional sense, and it will not have monetary prizes. The festival event on May 30-31 will present, discuss, and celebrate a selection of works singled out and featured without ranking by the Read_me experts collective. READ_ME 2.3 will focus on the variety of discrete contexts and will aim at building bridges between them. READ_ME 2.3 partner events: - Demoskene - "The exhibition that presents demo pieces and the demo scene as a cultural phenomenon", Kiasma - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 28.3.2003 to 15.6.2003 - Digital II, MUU Mediabase, Helsinki, May 16-18