lizvlx (.at) and Hans Bernhard (.us/.ch)
have been collaborating under the brand name UBERMORGEN.COM since 1999
and are based in Vienna and St. Moritz. In 2000, they became widely and
notoriously renowned for their project [V]ote-Auction - a platform for
the trading of electoral votes in the presidential race between Bush and
Gore.
Trained as both artists and economists, UBERMORGEN.COM are digital artists, media hackers and researchers. For more than a decade, they have explored, hacked into, and visualized outbreaks of global media frenzies. Whether researching the USA's 'enhanced interrogation' program, short-circuiting stock markets, providing software driven solutions to legal boundaries of globalism, or showing off the superficiality of today's low-resolution media world by use of their large-scale Pixelpaintings, UBERMORGEN.COM's work is consistently characterized by hands-on investigation, copy/paste methodology, and formal and conceptual determination. Their work captures various combinations of authoritative beauty and corporate terror constituting a condensed image of media life in the 21st century.
Exhibitions (selection): LAboral Gijon, New Museum New York (USA), transmediale Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, MOCA Taipei, MumoK Vienna, Ars Electronica, Konsthall Malmoe, NTT ICC Museum (Japan), ZKM (Germany), Lentos Kunstmuseum (Austria), Goethe-Institute Nairobi (Kenya), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. In 2011 they realized Net.Art commission (CLICKISTAN) for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Trained as both artists and economists, UBERMORGEN.COM are digital artists, media hackers and researchers. For more than a decade, they have explored, hacked into, and visualized outbreaks of global media frenzies. Whether researching the USA's 'enhanced interrogation' program, short-circuiting stock markets, providing software driven solutions to legal boundaries of globalism, or showing off the superficiality of today's low-resolution media world by use of their large-scale Pixelpaintings, UBERMORGEN.COM's work is consistently characterized by hands-on investigation, copy/paste methodology, and formal and conceptual determination. Their work captures various combinations of authoritative beauty and corporate terror constituting a condensed image of media life in the 21st century.
Exhibitions (selection): LAboral Gijon, New Museum New York (USA), transmediale Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, MOCA Taipei, MumoK Vienna, Ars Electronica, Konsthall Malmoe, NTT ICC Museum (Japan), ZKM (Germany), Lentos Kunstmuseum (Austria), Goethe-Institute Nairobi (Kenya), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. In 2011 they realized Net.Art commission (CLICKISTAN) for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.