UBERMORGEN

Since the 1990s, Luzius Bernhard and Lizvlx have been extending the field of net art with projects and interventions, continuously exploring the possibilities of the internet as an artist duo with the name UBERMORGEN. With their works, UBERMORGEN reflect on the Internet as a marketplace, its logic as a networked machine, and intervene in political and social discourse. Early on, the artist group recognised the promising potential of the Internet as a medium for art. In their initial projects, such as Vote-Auction, as well as in their current works, like Breitbart Red, they bring political issues of the net and thus not only draw attention to social injustices, but, in doing so, also create speculative space for political action. With works such as [F]original or Bankstatement Generator, UBERMOREGN also
artistically respond to political tensions and open up concrete spaces for action with the help of simple technological hacks. In the process, the duo makes particularly clever use of branding and marketing strategies to communicate their anti-authoritarian stance and generate media attention. With GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself (2005) and Amazon Noir (2006), UBERMORGEN critically examines the power of dominant (internet) corporations, the commercialisation of the internet, and questions of (collective) copyright and brand protection. In particular, issues such as (intellectual) property, originality, and artificial scarcity have gained renewed meaning in recent years due to the hype around NFTs and UBERMORGEN demonstrate the importance of the contributions that UBERMORGEN and other artists of their generation have made to a robust critical discourse. The artist duo UBERMORGEN has already received several awards for their groundbreaking work. The jury would like to emphasise how important and influential their work is and has been for Swiss media art.