Vote-Auction Seal, 200 x 200 cm, digital print on canvas, 2000GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself – Installation, The Premises Gallery, Johannensburg, 2005TORTURE CLASSICS Installation Basel, mixed media, 2011Lizvlx & Billie-Ada from UBERMORGEN.COM during a performance in Damascus, SyriaLuzius Bernhard inside Sound of eBay Installation, Madrid, 2009
Their early works were media hacking[11][12] projects using low-tech tools to reach very large audiences. During the work on their best known project Voteauction (2000) CNN.com called them "Maverick Austrian Businessmen".[13] The project resulted in an onslaught of lawsuits issued by Illinois, Texas, Arizona, California, Missouri, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin.[14]
In 2001, they started a collaboration with Christoph Schlingensief for the development and staging of a Hamlet project in Zurich: NAZI~LINE, a bigger than life fake neo-Nazi helpline and exit strategy finding agency.
In 2005 they started the EKMRZ Trilogy, a series of conceptual hacks (GWEI[15][16] – Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir and The Sound of eBay).
Between 2007–2011 their focus went into research-based productions (Superenhanced, WOPPOW, KRAFT Series)[17] and Rock Art productions such as TORTURE CLASSICS[18] and CLICKISTAN (commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art).[19] They started to work extensively with video during this period.
They have been represented by Fabio Paris Brescia, [DAM] Berlin and Carroll / Fletcher London.
Injunction generator
The Injunction Generator is an artisticsoftware module by Ubermorgen which claims to generate on request legal injunctions and personalized documentation in .rtf/.pdf format to force a website into taking its contents offline.
Carrying on with their principles of "radical corporative marketing strategy" (media hacking), the artists produced an effective and credible interface which helps creating one's own documented cease-and-desist request, which is then automatically sent to the DNS administrators, to the site's owner and to some journalists to trick them into supporting the "public trial".
The project is published at ipnic.org, an acronym which mimics the official protocols (Internet Protocol - Network Information Center), revisited as "Internet Partnership for No Internet Content".
This sarcastic provocation (a "public shutdown service") was conceived after experiencing a similar mishap during the Voteauction art project, which in 2000 invited American citizens to put up their vote for auction. At the time an email injunction by an American court was sent to the Swiss internet service provider hosting the site, who immediately took them offline even though emailed documents aren't legally considered official and even though Switzerland is outside of American jurisdiction.
Life and career
Lizvlx and Luzius Bernhard are an artist duo[21][22] but also a couple in private life.[23] They are engaged and have two children, Billie-Ada (2003) and Lola Mae (2007).
The collaboration with both their children (Superenhanced[35][36] & Spielendes Baby – Schlafendes Baby (original title)[37]), the inclusion of Luzius's mental illness and the merger of private and public life led some critics and academics to consider UBERMORGEN.COM as a Gesamtkunstwerk.[38]
Important personal and artistic influences were early meetings with Jean Tinguely, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Spoerri and Eberhard W. Kornfeld in the Basel art scene of the 1980s and with Niki de Saint Phalle[39] in St. Moritz, and the long-time relationship (going back to 1916 during the first world war and the purchase of a Giovanni Giacometti painting by the grand-grandfather of Luzius Bernhard) with the Giacometti family (Giovanni Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti) in the nearby mountain valleys Val Bregaglia and Engadin in the canton Grisons in Switzerland.[40]
Coded Cultures – New Creative Practices out of Diversity", Series: Edition Angewandte, Russegger, Georg; Tarasiewicz, Matthias; Wlodkowski, Michal (Eds.), SpringerWienNewYork Publisher, 1st Edition., 2011, 384 p.50 illus, Softcover, ISBN978-3-7091-0457-6, p.334–355, "From Somebody's Desire to Everyone's Responsibility", Yukiko Shikata/UBERMORGEN.COM,
This is a magazine, Pink Laser Beam, Compendium #6, , "Pink Laser Beam" Paper, Plastic, Glue, Thread, Metal-foil, Edition of 666, 2009, "Amazon Noir project" (with Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio).
↑ Gamescenes: the book, M. Bittanti, D. Quaranta (eds), GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames, Milan, Johan & Levi Editore, Milano 2006 ( ISBN978-8860100108)
↑ Domenico Quaranta, Yves Bernard (eds), Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age, FPEditions, Brescia 2008 ( ISBN978-8890330865)
↑ Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin (eds), THE READ_ME Software Art & Cultures, Aarhus 2004 ( ISBN978-87-988440-4-4)
↑ UBERMORGEN.COM Manifesto, RC1 (release-copy 1) presented at "Positions in Flux" Symposium, The Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam, 8.5.2009, published online Vienna, 28.7.2009
↑ The Guardian, Excerpted from Leaving Reality Behind by Adam Wishart and Regula Bochsler (Fourth Estate)
↑ AG Borderline-Kongress (ed), BORDERLINE – Strategien u. Taktiken f. Kunst u. soziale Praxis, Wiesbaden 2002, p.33-42, Reinhold Grether on"Wie die etoy Kampagne gefuehrt wurde – ein Agentenbericht" ( ISBN3-8311-3775-7)
↑ Authorized copy of 194.152.164.137, a collaborative project by lizvlx and Andrea Mayr
↑ Christian Ulrik Andersen, Soeren Bro Pold (eds), Interface Criticism. Aesthetics Beyond Buttons, Aarhus University Press, Aarhus 2011 ( ISBN978-8779345041)
↑ Exhibition Catalogue Connessioni Leggendarie, Net.Art 1995–2005, ready+made publisher, online version, PDF, Digimag09/NOV05, Review by Marco Mancuso
↑ Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft Inga Reimers writes in her masters thesis "(Selbst-)Inszenierung – Praxis – Kunst. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Annäherung an das „hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk ubermorgen.com“ about the relation of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" and Richard Wagner "Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft" , Universität Hamburg, 2009
↑ Interview with Wolf Lieser about: "WOLF LIESER – DIGITAL ART – NEUE WEGE IN DER KUNST/THE WORLD OF DIGITAL ART", h.f. ullmann publisher / DAM Berlin – Galerie für Digitale Kunst, 2010
↑ Keynote & Superenhanced Installation at [ISEA]09 in [Belfast], [Northern Ireland]
↑ Project website and images, Installation exhibited 18.2. – 29.2.2004 at [Kunsthaus Graz]
↑ Cornelia Sollfrank, 2009, "Das Genie von übermorgen"
↑ Niki de Saint Phalle 29.10.1930 Neuilly – 21.5.2002 San Diego
↑ Letters, photos, sales contract and the painting are in the ownership of the Bernhard/Pernisch/Plattner family, archived in S-Chanf and Basel/Switzerland
↑ Bringing Capitalism and Democracy Closer Together, HANS BERNHARD / Ubermorgen Interviewed by Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin
↑ OVERGADEN Institute of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Artnode, parallel solo exhibitions Heath Bunting/UBERMORGEN.COM
↑ TORTURECLASSICS.COM, UBERMORGEN.COM feat. James Powderly, Korea music torture performance 2010 and Beerboarding Performance Ars Electronica Linz
↑ Funding and collaboration "Salzburg" WTO/GATT.ORG Stunt, 2000
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