[ISEA2009] Keynote: lizvlx & Hans Bernhard (UBERMORGEN.COM) – Keynote

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UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by lizvlx & Hans Bernhard. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities — controversial and iconoclastic — of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixel painting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one’s working materials that for UBERMORGEN.COM also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). `Ubermorgen’ is the German word both for ‘the day after tomorrow’ and ‘super-tomorrow’.    ubermorgen.com/UM/index1.html

  • lizvlx is a net.artist working in the fields of digital imagery, media actionism and programming. She studied both commercial sciences as well as fine arts in Vienna and now works out of St. Moritz and Vienna. Using technology, computers, and sculpture as media since 1994, she has exhibited her net.art works in venues like the Ars Electronica (Austria), the Konsthall Malmoe (Sweden), the NTT ICC Museum (Japan), ARCO (Spain) or the Lentos Kunstmuseum (Austria). lizvlx was also a founding member of 194.152.164.137 and of -etznetz.net. lizvlx is allergic to milk protein and enjoys changing hair colors.
  • Hans Bernhard is a writer, actionist and a media artist working in the field of media hacking, txtmodification, and net.art. Since the mid-1990’s, he has been a frequent speaker at conferences and universities worldwide, and has exhibited his “Pork in [?] venues such as Laboral Gijon (Spain), SFMOMA (USA), transmediale Berlin (Germany), likeeeum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan), SIOCATaipei (Taiwan) or Mumok Vienna (Austria). Hans Bernhard was a founding member of the legendary etoy.CORPORATION. He studied communication, digital art, and aesthetics in Vienna, San Diego, Pasadena, and Wuppertal. Bernhard is keen on attention and unsure about his hairstyle.