KURATOR  curating + research

UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/CH/USA, *1995)

Countries:

Austria, Switzerland, United States of America

Link:

http://www.ubermorgen.com/

UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo based in Vienna (AT) and St. Moritz (CH) founded by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and iconoclastic – of the contemporary European fine-art avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, software art, pixel painting, large scaled installations, legal art (the judges never get us!), Net.Art and Media Hacking transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The computer and the network are (ab)used and the permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working materials: i.e. international rights, piracy, e-commerce, torture, democracy and global communication. Their work is always inherently materialist, flexible and formal. Their thinking is deeply political, but unlike “political art”, UM.COM seek to capture the present and the future and amplify it, without preconceived opinion or vision. “Ubermorgen” is the German word both for “the day after tomorrow” and “super-tomorrow”. UBERMORGEN.COM is represented by Fabio Paris Brescia, [DAM] Berlin and Carroll / Fletcher London. http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM

lizvlx (A/CH, *1973) UBERMORGEN.COM

lizvlx is an austrian artist based in Vienna and St. Moritz. She is a net.artist working in the fields of painting with pixels, installation, digital actionism and performance, video and codeart. She studied commercial sciences (MBA School of Economics Vienna) and fine art (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna). Using technology, computers, and foriginal documents as media since 1994, she has exhibited in venues like the Konsthall Malmoe, Ars Electronica, NTT ICC Museum Tokyo, ARCO Madrid, Sidney Biennale or Lentos Kunstmuseum. lizvlx was a founding member of 194.152.164.137 and of netznetz.net and is allergic to milk protein and enjoys changing hair colors every now and then…

Hans Bernhard (USA/CH/A, *1973) UBERMORGEN.COM

Hans Bernhard is a swiss-american artist living and working in Vienna and St. Moritz. He is working in the field of conceptual art, media hacking, installation, photography, video, performance and net.art. Since the mid-1990’s he is a regular speaker at conferences and universities, and has exhibited his work in venues such as SFMOMA, ZKM, New Museum New York, Kunsthaus Graz, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Laboral Gijon, MOCA Taipei, Centre Pompidou Paris, Prague Biennale or Mumok Vienna. Hans Bernhard is a co-founder of etoy. He was trained at the University of applied arts in Vienna (Prof. Weibel), UC San Diego (Prof. Manovich), Art Center College of Design Pasadena (Prof. Lunenfeld), and University of Wuppertal (Prof. Brock). Hans Bernhard weighs 125 Kgs ~(280 pounds) and gets a new haircut in every city he travels to…

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