UBERMORGEN

crypto manifesto tokens #1 - #10

Neither political nor ideological - but definitely actionist, investigative and sometimes provocative – that's how the internationally active artist duo UBERMORGEN present themselves. The work of lisvlx and Luzius Bernhard is based on extensive research and usually results in net-based projects, code and deliberately disruptive interventions in various systems – be it mass media, technologies or even the legal order.

UBERMORGEN first appeared in international media when they launched their famous political discourse intervention, Vote-Auction. The Vote-Auction online platform was created during the 2000 US presidential election and claimed to allow Americans to sell their vote online. Other works by UBERMORGEN are no less provocative and critical. GWEI – Google will Eat itself aims to deconstruct Google as a global player by developing a system of economic auto-cannibalism in which money generated through use of advertisement space is automatically invested in Google shares and re-distributed to a common ownership trust.

The duo have also tried their hand in the medium of NFTs, an early iteration being The D1cks – two of which belong to the HEK collection. In this NFT series UBERMORGEN critically poke fun at the growing public desire for designer PFPs (Profile Pictures) by creating a collection of pixelised penis PFPs. In their newest NFT collection UBERMORGEN once again take an ironic approach to the provocative hype of the international crypto market with their crypto manifesto token #1-#10 series. Described as „haute couture“ NFTs, crypto manifesto tokens, which are based on the duos new 10 part manifesto, will be launched every three days in October as part of HEK Net Works and minted on the fx(hash) platform.

Artist Statement:

UBERMORGEN
crypto manifesto token #01-#10
chain my heart

The últra contemporary! minted declaration of intentions, motives, & views of UBERMORGEN caught in 16k, merged in 2018, wounded amour-propre lab-grown meat of post crypto 1995.

On methodologies, politics of existence, legal & structural models, beyond media, NFT haute couture, new chain structured media & web(3) reality & ¿Gesamtkunstwerk? Biopunk & financial curiosity in l'origine du pixel one-of-one polarising dark research & radical AI, pink binary primitivism & conceptualism.

What does it even mean?

Entertainment is our success.

Bio:

UBERMORGEN (‘the day after tomorrow’, CH/AT/US, *1995) is an artist duo with a steady worldwide presence, a synthesis of autistic actionist lizvlx (Liz Katlein) & pragmatic visionary Luzius Bernhard (formerly Hans Bernhard). They are net.art pioneers, ‘Media Hackers’ widely recognized for their Online Actionism, Haute Couture NFTs & Websites, Polarising Social Experiments, Radical Research, Dark AI, Binary Primitivism & Conceptualism; Artfacts calls their work ‘Ultra Contemporary’. CNN called them 'Maverick Austrian Business People' during their Vote-Auction project, reaching 500 million worldwide & challenging the FBI, CIA, & NSA (US presidential election 2000). A series of conceptual hacks (EKMRZ Trilogy, 2005-08) shook the foundations of the dominating e-commerce giants: ‘Google Will Eat Itself’, ‘Amazon Noir’, & ‘The Sound of eBay’. In 2021, ‘The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine’ used AI-TikTikPop to catapult visitors into 64 twisted parallel universes. Today ‘UNINVITED’ AI Horror Film & Crypto Art collide to create deeply nostalgic synthetic organisms and ‘The D1cks’, hand-pixelated 1 of 1 Haute Couture NFTs reveal ‘L‘Origine du pixel’. UBERMORGEN's work has been exhibited throughout the world, for example in New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo, often in digital spaces.

WEB http://ubermorgen.com
INSTAGRAM @ubermorgen_77
TWITTER @UBERMORGEN_COM
EPK: https://www.ubermorgen.com/UM/UBERMORGEN_PORTFOLIO_EPK_8MB.pdf